Program to reduce plastic waste and raise public awareness in Tran De District
Early access to the area of Soc Trang Province, UPC Renewables (with the representative in Vietnam is Lac Hoa – Hoa Dong Wind Power Company) has always paid attention to the local community.
Accordingly, in response to the movement of reducing plastic waste in Soc Trang Province, UPC Renewables collaborated with Tran De High School and Lich Hoi Thuong High School to organize a series of activities to join hands together to reduce plastic waste and raise Community awareness at 2 campuses.
After more than 1 month of mobilizing students and local people, the project collected more than 50,000 plastic bottles with typical activities such as: Painting wall paintings on the topic of “sea port without plastic”, Propagating and cleaning plastic bottles locally, the warehouse “500 dong” to classify plastic bottles, collect plastic bottles to exchange gifts from programs in schools and localities …
In addition, the project has contributed more than VND 40 million to the two school units to continue the collection of plastic bottles in the near future.
