With high awareness and responsibility, the border guard force has been carrying out a variety of activities to protect the environment and build a safe and healthy living environment. These meaningful and practical activities have contributed to the whole world and country’s efforts in environment protection.
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Troops of Quynh Phuong border station coordinate with other units to carry out the "Let's clean up the sea" campaign. |
Building a green lifestyle
In order to raise troops’ awareness of the harmful impacts of plastic waste and gradually changing the habits of using plastic bags and single-use plastic products, the Border Guard Command has launched a movement “Say no to plastic waste.”
Up to now, officers and soldiers in border agencies and units have banned single-use plastic bags, straws, bottles of mineral water, etc. Instead, the agencies and units have used glass cups and vases and products made from eco-friendly materials.
According to Colonel Nguyen Dinh Tuan, Head of the Political Education and Information Board of the Division of Political Affairs under the Cao Bang provincial Border Guard Command, environment is one of the significant criteria to build an “exemplary and typical” unit. To achieve the above criteria, the units have minimized the use of single-use plastic products.
Moreover, agencies and units have paid much attention to waste treatment, and food safety, sanitation, and personal hygiene. Many units have required their troops to sort waste every day while actively responding to green lifestyle through practical deeds, including “Say no to plastic waste,” “Collecting, classifying, recycling, and reusing plastic waste,” and “Waste sorting - green environment.” Still, agencies and units have boosted “Voluntary Saturday” and “Green Sunday” movements, among others.
Raising awareness of environmental protection among people in border areas and islanders
Border guard troops are mostly stationed in areas with difficult socio-economic conditions. There still remains a lack of awareness of environmental protection among local people. Knowing this situation, the border guard force has carried out various activities to remove this limitation.
Over the past years, Cao Bang border guards have supported people in border areas to build incinerators in villages and encouraged them to move cattle and barns out of the space under the floor.
In the maritime border areas, border troops have conducted many activities to protect the environment. Particularly, Quynh Phuong Border Station under the Nghe An provincial Border Guard Command has closely coordinated with local authorities and other organizations to implement the “Let’s clean up the ocean” campaign. The station’s troops have regularly cleaned up and collect garbage at beaches in localities; set up 50 garbage bins in public places to encourage local people to put their trash in the right place, and printed and hung 35 different banners and slogans to spread the message of “Cleaning up the ocean and raising the community's awareness of marine environmental protection,” to name but a few.
Source: baobienphong
Translated by Quynh Oanh