Honestly, every New Year's Eve, when I look at the scene of urban sanitation workers plugging their heads and necks to clean up mountains of garbage, pursing their lips and pursing their backs, pushing tall garbage trucks out of sight, I keep seeing them. feel sad, sorry.

Why is there so much trash? Garbage is everywhere in public places of entertainment, festivals, and garbage in houses and apartments. At the end of the program to welcome the new year 2023, the flow of people leaving was flooded with garbage and plastic bags at Nguyen Hue pedestrian street (District 1, Ho Chi Minh City). In the area of Hoan Kiem Lake (Hanoi), on the morning of the first day of the New Year, after the fireworks show ended, the flow of people began to thin, then along the streets around the lake were scattered and crowded. Types of waste such as water bottles, tissues, and food boxes... are scattered everywhere.

This is a situation that happens often in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and some big cities in the country after every New Year's Eve, after each cultural event and festival to celebrate the new spring. After the moment of New Year's Eve, hundreds of workers and environmental workers have to work for many hours to clean up all the garbage left behind by people.

A worker at an environmental company in the Hoan Kiem district confided: “Every New Year's Eve around the Ho Lake area, garbage piles up. With this much trash, even if we tried to do it at full capacity, it would take until 5-6 am to finish it."

It must be said that a lot of garbage is primarily due to the poor awareness of many people participating in the Tet festival. Many people are ignorant, sit and eat around the lake and then stand up carefreely, leaving their plastic containers and water glasses on the ground. When urban environmental workers came to remind them, they ignored them, so environmental workers had to clean up by themselves, while the trash cans were nearby. “If everyone is conscious, we will only clean from 3 pm to 3 am. But with this situation, nearly 30 brothers worked at full capacity until 6 a.m., "- an environmental worker lamented after the fireworks festival.

Some people say that their indiscriminate littering is because of the lack of public trash cans. That's just a fallacy. No city has enough trash cans to accommodate the huge amount of people present at the same time and only happens a few times a year. And if there is a shortage of trash cans, it doesn't mean littering, but each person and family when participating in the festival should prepare their small garbage bag. Put it in that bag, and after the fun, throw the trash bag in the nearest public trash can or nearby garbage truck.

In recent years, another significant source of garbage has been added during Tet. That's the fact that flower sellers on the afternoon of the 30th of Tet due to lack of goods, were afraid to spend money on shipping back, they smashed flower pots, kumquat pots, chopped branches of apricot trees, and peaches, ... They couldn't sell, so they dumped the excess. flower buyers press prices, they vent their anger on the poor flower pots.
And they dumped garbage from the trees and the flowers all over the city. Like every year, this year seems to be more, increasing the amount of garbage collection work, very hard for environmental workers.

Changing to raise awareness of urban environmental sanitation during Tet is certainly not an overnight thing, but it will likely take dozens of Tet holidays to able to do it. But I think, right from Tet next year, we can immediately do some specific things to reduce the terrible burden on environmental workers and staff during Tet.

First of all, every family does not dump garbage on the street on the 30th day of the New Year, but stays until the end of the 1st and 2nd, then surely the environmental sanitation workers will be able to rest earlier on On the evening of the 30th of Tet, reunited with family to celebrate New Year's Eve like the rest of us.

Trash after Tet is also flower pots and vases. If we just throw the whole vase and flowers into the garbage truck, it will be very hard for the environmental workers. If the tree is left intact, it will be very easy, making it difficult for people to dump garbage in the stage of garbage collection and transportation. So why don't we take a moment, use a knife and scissors to cut the peach branches, kumquats, and apricots, then put them in a nylon bag for neatness and then throw them in the garbage truck?
In the above ways, I think that the garbage collectors will be lighter, giving them a little joy from the New Year to spring.

In addition, while the hygiene consciousness of all people who go to the Tet holiday cannot be expected, while the story of "the streets are clean and beautiful after New Year's Eve" is still just a wish full of myths, the It is necessary that the ugly images of littering indiscriminately not be re-established every year is that the laws on urban environmental sanitation must be specified very specifically, in detail, and severely punished to prevent it.

As we love the beauty of spring, heaven and earth, and people during Tet, let's love like that, let's join hands and do all we can to share, reduce the burden of garbage, to make the work of garbage collection lighter a little bit happy for the urban environmental workers.

Doing so, from next year, the joyful shout of "Tet, Tet, Tet is coming" is a joyful song for one of the hardest people, who seems to never have a New Year's Eve reunion. with family: urban environmental workers.
If we can do that, we, the residents of big cities, will be spared the sadness of the Tet holiday before the miserable hardships of the garbage collectors around us.

Via: moitruongvadothi.vn