The beautiful lives in this world can be maintained or affected by human actions. Every day, people around the world are using products and services to serve society. These actions cannot avoid using natural resources. According to World Bank data, around the world, waste generation rates are rising.
In 2020, the world was estimated to generate 2.24 billion tonnes of solid waste, amounting to a footprint of 0.79 kilograms per person per day. With rapid population growth and urbanization, annual waste generation is expected to increase by 73% from 2020 levels to 3.88 billion tonnes in 2050.
Therefore, taking care of nature is as beneficial as taking care of human, animal and plant life. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set goals and actions to monitor the effectiveness of these activities. The SDGs have many directions including good health and well-being, clean water and sanitation, affordable and clean energy, sustainable cities and community, climate action, life below water, life on land, and so on.
However, some people still do not understand the impact of littering, and we call on those who visit the natural resorts or plces to help pack the trash well, seek the bin around and put the trash into the trash bin. Or if there is no trash bin around, you should pack your trash and bring back home for your own sake as well as for the environment’s sake.
Poor waste management has many side effects as plastics take longer to decompose. Small pieces of plastic that poses a risk by releasing toxic chemicals into the environment, killing animals and affecting human health, causing disease. Infections from microorganisms cause respiratory diseases, food poisoning, infections in the urethra. Toxic substances that flow out of landfills contaminate soil and water.
This mean, each of us has a responsibility to contribute to the protection of the environment for the harmony of life and sustainable social development. We can start by following the 3R principle of (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle). We can easily start from hygienic collection, sorting waste by type, for example, perishable waste, recyclable waste, hazardous waste, etc. As for liquid waste, we need to manage and process it in a way that does not harm the environment.
Proper storage of waste can lead to huge profits that we can recycle, especially waste that can be recycled into compost that is so useful for plants. We should try to reduce waste as much as possible.
At the same time, Waste Summit Cambodia, an annual summit that brings together waste stakeholders from the government to NGOs, business and advocates to discuss innovative waste solutions, organized a gathering in Phnom Penh on May 13, 2023.
At the Waste Summit Cambodia Exhibition, many people participated and were also interested in the topics that the program organized about the waste management. Relevant ministries, institutions, individuals, youth groups, some of them also tried to use their skills to disseminate, call, encourage, motivate and mainstream others in the community to learn about the advantages of good waste management and merit, and crisis of poor waste management through videos, photos, and many other art works.
On this auspicious occasion, Misota is very honored and pleased to participate in the exhibition with more than 40 other businesses in the program of Waste Summit Cambodia. Misota who won the Gold Award from Cambodia Green Industry for Clean Environment in 2021, has always been strongly committed to adhering to the principle of food safety standards, as well as supporting and participating in the preservation of the environment and public health.
Do you have any other ideas to help environment better?
Reference: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/urbandevelopment/brief/solid-waste-management
