Public trash cans: Lack or excess?

(Baonghean) - Regarding the topic "Ensuring public hygiene in Vinh City", many people believe that one of the reasons for poor environmental hygiene in public areas is the lack of trash cans. On the other hand, people do not have the habit of throwing trash in trash cans, so sometimes having trash cans is like not having them. However, the majority believe that Vinh has become a class 1 city, so equipping trash cans in central areas and main streets is very necessary, both to raise people's awareness of civilized lifestyle and to ensure urban aesthetics.

In reality, the number of public trash cans placed on the main streets in the inner city can be counted on the fingers. Some streets such as Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Le Hong Phong, Quang Trung, Ho Tung Mau, Nguyen Sy Sach, Tran Phu, Phan Dinh Phung... have almost no trash cans.

Some other routes have a few but they are damaged and rusty. The route with the most trash cans is Truong Thi Street, but they are only concentrated in the section passing through the Provincial People's Committee and Provincial Party Committee headquarters - where there is little population concentration. Some central areas with large crowds such as the Youth Park, Cua Nam Flower Garden, or bus stations, wharfs, and bus waiting areas do not have or have very few public trash cans, so people, especially foreign visitors, are often confused about where to throw their trash. Those who are conscious will wrap it up and carry it with them until they get to the garbage truck or garbage collection site to throw it away. Those who lack consciousness will carelessly litter right there.

However, littering is not only happening in places without trash cans, but also in places where trash cans are present but trash is still dumped on the road or under trees. A friend of mine who has a habit of walking and exercising in the square at night shared his feelings of embarrassment many times when he saw some people who lack awareness in littering and immediately foreign tourists came to pick it up and throw it in the trash can.

Obviously, in order to build Vinh City into a civilized and modern urban area, in addition to checking, reviewing, repairing, installing additional trash bins in missing or lost locations or moving them to suitable locations, each citizen also needs to raise awareness of environmental protection, starting from the smallest action of "putting trash in the bin"!