Environmental protection with bamboo woven waste bins

7/26/2018 - 3:22:36 PM

(HBO) - With youth, responsibility and creativity, young people in Tan Lac district have been implementing practical activities in the implementation of Criterion No.19 on environmental protection. The image of "the waste basket built by the youth building new rural area" on the roads of youth self-managed is a testimony to the efforts of protecting the environment from the youth in the district.

The youth of Phu Vinh commune (Tan Lac) protects the environment with waste bins and trays knitted by bamboo and neohouzeaua.

Accordingly, the youth members in the district already backfilled 9.4 km of the rural road surface, collecting 4.5 tons of waste at markets, streams; setting up 14 prohibition signs of waste disposal, and responding to the "World Environment Day" with many practical activities. The most highlighted point in the movement of environmental protection is that the district Youth Union has deployed two models of "Hàng cây thanh niên làm theo lời Bác” and "Sọt rác thanh niên xây dựng NTM”. With the enthusiasm and willingness of the local people and the youth members to participate in the community, currently, the whole district has grown over 700 trees and installed more than 100 waste baskets.

Visiting Phu Vinh commune, the pictures of waste baskets knitted by bamboo and neohouzeaua become a living proof of the effort of the Youth members to clean the village streets and alleys. Originated from limited funding, the Youth members in the district belonged to 135 area show their "wisdom" when thinking of using bamboo for knitting bins and baskets to collect waste on the route. In which, Ngau is one of the first village to exploit this model. It is located as a central hamlet with the large area with more than 100 households. "Being the center village with schools, the amount of waste every day is quite much. Meanwhile, the local people in the village only clean out 2-3 times a year, so the village road is not in clean and clear condition. Three months ago, the Youth Union deployed the model of installing waste baskets, which has brought practical effect. The local people self-consciously put garbage into the baskets, the village roads are kept clean and beautiful, the awareness of environmental protection has been raised, "said Mr. Dinh Cong Hoang, the head of Ngau village.

In order to have waste baskets placed on the current roads, the youth members of Phu Vinh Commune were instructed to knit the baskets by the seniors in the commune. "The life span of a bamboo basket is about 3 months old; therefore, we have recently replaced some baskets. At the end of the month, the youth members will collect garbage at the baskets for burning.

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