The international theme of “World Earth Day” in 2024 is “Planet vs. Plastics”, while Taiwan’s theme is “One more plastic is worse than one less plastic”. Since the convenience of plastic products has become an important part of human daily life, human beings Unrestrained use, when plastics become waste products, are not easily degraded and absorbed by the natural environment, and become a source of pollution. With the rise of environmental sustainability awareness today, humans have begun to pay attention to issues such as “environmental protection, low carbon, and sustainability”. The most urgent task is to call on mankind to unite as one to end the harm of plastic pollution to living things.
Kaohsiung President Rong Ji said today (24th) that in response to the 2024 World Earth Day, he and the “Compassion Organic Agriculture Development Foundation” jointly promoted the sustainable development of the earth at the beach at the southern end of the Kaohsiung Linyuan Mangrove Ecological Zone. Vice President Chen Yaosheng led the team to embrace not only the ocean but also the land with love, leading colleagues to set out to reduce carbon emissions, implement ESG sustainability goals together, and care for the earth more truly. (see picture)
On the day of beach cleaning, adults and children did not cry out because they were very happy to participate in the beach cleaning activities. Especially when colleagues called out the types of garbage picked up, everyone cheered and praised happily, because the entire beach cleaning group had a great atmosphere. , the final result of the beach cleanup was about 20 sacks of linen bags of garbage and one 100L blue plastic bucket. This result was of great significance to Kaohsiung Rongzong, Ronghua Kindergarten, suppliers Weihe Co., Ltd., and Weiwu Co., Ltd. who participated in the beach cleanup for the first time. Co., Ltd. colleagues, it is very extraordinary and worthy of recognition.
The total weight of the “Embrace the Ocean with Love” beach cleanup results was 2,061 kilograms, of which ICC counted 3,025 first-place glass bottles and 2,166 second-place PET bottles. , the third place brought 428 take-away drink cups; after this beach cleaning activity, it not only returns a clean space to the earth, but also hopes that through the beach cleaning process, colleagues can realize the convenience of plastic in daily life. If it is not ended, it will only It will worsen the environment, so cleaning the beach that day is just the beginning. The most important thing next is to start taking action to develop good habits of reducing plastics, so as to give yourself and future generations a more beautiful earth!
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