“I love green environment, acting for city without waste"

Getting involved in building a cultural and civilized lifestyle, provincial Youth Unions and Young Pioneer Organizations at all levels have implemented many models, bringing practical results...

Collecting, recycling milk cartons

In the 2023-2024 school year, provincial Youth Union has coordinated with provincial Department of Education and Training to implement a plan to classify, collect and recycle milk cartons at preschools, primary and secondary schools. Thu Dau Mot city’s Young Pioneer Organization (YPO) has launched this movement to all the local YPO branches. Possibly speaking, the program of classifying, collecting and recycling milk cartons is a new program in this school year, promising to create many good effects in environmental protection, raising YPO members and pupils’ awareness of environmental protection.

Phu Tho primary school awards the "Green Corridor" work to the YPO branches

According to statistics, in the 2022-2023 school year, the whole province has about 527,100 students from kindergarten to high school levels. If on average, every student drinks 1 to 2 cartons of milk per day, there will be more than 1 million milk cartons released into the environment, equivalent to about 1 ton of waste released into the environment. Therefore, properly collecting milk cartons is one of the most practical tasks, contributing to protecting clean spaces at schools, making the learning environment cleaner and more beautiful. This has also helped improve their awareness of environmental protection.

The YPO branch of Phu Tho primary school in Thu Dau Mot city is one of the typical units in carrying out a campaign to collect milk cartons. Accordingly, during afternoon recess, students together participated in the activity of collecting milk cartons as instructed by teachers. The amount of milk cartons collected from the school’s classes will be transferred to the plant for processing.

Nguyen Manh Cuong, Head of Phu Tho Primary School’s YPO branch: "This activity not only contributes to educating and raising students and people’s awareness of environmental protection in daily life, thereby also reducing the amount of waste into the environment; utilizing raw materials, turning waste into useful items, reducing waste treatment costs. The highest goal of the program does not stop at collecting, sorting and recycling milk cartons at schools, but also develops the habit of collecting, sorting and recycling discarded materials to be reused at home, thereby spreading awareness of environmental protection among students parents, joining hands in implementing this task”.

For city with waste

Ngo Dang Huy, Vice-Secretary of Thu Dau Mot city’s Youth Union, Vice-Chairman of the city’s Young Pioneer Organization said that the city’s Young Pioneer Organization has directed its branches to organize festivals named "I love the green environment, acting for a city without waste” and implement a program to classify, collect and recycle milk cartons in the city by 2023. These activities aim at contributing to raising awareness of building civilized urban culture among YPO members and students, building a green - clean - beautiful living environment; educating and civilized urban and cultural lifestyles right from school while well implementing the movement of "Each YPO member has a tree, each YPO branch has a flower garden", creating a strong change in YPO members, teenagers and children’s awareness of planting trees, protecting the environment and responding to climate change. These activities also help YPO members understand more about classifying, collecting and recycling milk cartons, which will bring dual benefits, contributing to reducing the amount of waste released into the environment and avoiding wastefulness for natural resources, making use of raw materials, turning waste into useful items...

Accordingly, Phu Tho Primary School’s YPO branch was the city’s main unit of organizing the festival program "I love the green environment, acting for a city without waste". 1,000 YPO members and students actively participated in environmental protection activities at the festival. At the event, Phu Tho Primary School’s Young Pioneer Organization and management board held the opening ceremony of the festival and launched the movement of "I love the green environment, acting for a city without waste". The school’s YPO branch also awarded a “Mang non” (young shoot) work  "Green Corridor" to YOP branches; organized propaganda games on environmental protection to all YPO members, students...

This program also organized in many other YPO branches in Thu Dau Mot city by many diverse forms. They have launched a lot of activities on environmental protection among YPO members and pupils, including the movement of "Each YPO member has a tree, each YPO team has a flower garden"; awarded the "Green Corridor" work to the YPO branches while organizing games to promote environmental protection to all YPO members and students. In addition, the YPO branches organized training on ways to fold milk cartons and transport them to collection points, the benefits of recycling milk cartons into useful items, helping to minimizing the amount of waste released into the environment among YPO members and students.

Reported by Ngoc Nhu-Translated by Kim Tin