Garbage collection - good practice in Nghia My

(Baonghean.vn) - After one year of implementing the target of NghpoopResolution of the 30th Party Congress, term 2015-2020 on waste collection, environmental sanitation work in Nghia My commune (Thai Hoa town) has improved significantly, village roads and alleys have become airy, clean and beautiful.

The garbage collection team of Nghia My Agricultural Cooperative collects garbage in residential areas.

Nghia My is a purely agricultural commune. Recently, trading and service activities in the area have developed quite a lot, leading to an increase in the amount of waste. It is estimated that the average amount of waste in the whole commune every day is about 1.5 tons. In previous years, because the locality has not organized waste collection, there is no place to collect waste, combined with the limited awareness of the people about the environment, waste is thrown haphazardly in residential areas, canals, causing environmental pollution, affecting people's health and spoiling the beauty of the village.

Faced with that situation, in 2012, the Commune People's Committee actively implemented waste collection to ensure environmental sanitation in the area, contributing to the construction of new rural areas. The 30th Commune Party Congress, term 2015-2020, included in the Resolution environmental sanitation criteria with the rate of households having waste collected over 88%.

Nghia My Commune Kindergarten. Photo courtesy

Immediately after the Congress, the Project was quickly developed, in which the main policy was to build community-based waste collection and treatment models. The goal of this model is to promote socialization and raise people's awareness in waste collection and classification.

Nghia My Agricultural Cooperative is the main unit in implementing waste collection in the area. The Cooperative has established a waste collection team operating in 14 hamlets, Lui market, along Highway 48. According to the plan, every 3 days, the team is responsible for collecting all domestic and production waste in the hamlet and gathering it to the designated location for transportation. Up to now, the whole commune has installed nearly 70 garbage bins and 1 garbage truck.

As the first commune in Thai Hoa Town to achieve the new rural standards, waste collection is very practical in ensuring environmental sanitation in the locality. The work of collecting and treating waste in Nghia My has shown that the leadership of the Party Committee, the government and the cooperation of the people have contributed to completing the targets of the Resolution of the Commune Party Congress and improving environmental sanitation criteria in the construction of new rural areas in the locality.

Cao Son

Thai Hoa Radio and Television Station