He added the MRC has been promoting environmental protection through its work related to water quality monitoring, environmental assessments, and basin-wide strategy development. Koungming Changleuxai posted photos and a video clip on how he managed trashes and reduced plastic in daily life.Īt the Mekong Day celebration, where these winners were presented with the awards and certificates, they told the nearly 100 attendees from the Lao government, embassies, MRC’s development partners and Secretariat’s staff of what motivated them to act green and how they wanted others to join the action.ĬEO An Pich Hatda addresses the attendees at the Mekong Day celebration today in Vientiane. Tadam Thanavanh of Lao PDR posted a photo of two reused plastic boxes from Pepsi to grow organic plans, depicting an easy way to act environmentally friendly. Macaraig’s post, which generated a lot of discussions around his green action. “Encouraging everyone to take care the environment by simply throwing our trashes in the bin, waste segregation, implementing 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) and participating and influencing others,” reads Mr. Ramon Macaraig of the Philippines living in Cambodia posted several photos of himself and his colleagues collecting trashes and cleaning the Mekong River bank in front of the Royal Place in Cambodia’s Phnom Penh. Not only did their photo and video posts show their green actions, but they also encouraged others to join the cause for environmental protection and for a free-of-plastic Mekong River. They were selected from a group of 85 Facebook users who posted their green actions on the platform as part of the campaign “ Let’s Act Green for a Greener Mekong” that they entered.Įach of the winners received a US$50-cash prize and was presented with certificates of recognition. The winners are four Lao citizens and two Filipinos living in Lao PDR and Cambodia. Vientiane, Lao PDR, 5 April 2019 - The Mekong River Commission (MRC) today awarded winners of its green campaign to celebrate the Mekong Day anniversary and raise awareness of the danger of plastic waste in the Mekong River basin.
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