Vo Van Kiet Street, the main route connecting the city center to Can Tho International Airport, is being "attacked" by waste.
From the airport to the city center is a "foreign" route, welcoming visitors to the locality and dropping off visitors. This garbage flooded the road, just like introducing ugliness to customers, making a bad impression in the eyes of friends.
But not only Vo Van Kiet Street, many other streets, such as Le Phuoc Tho Street, connecting from Cach Mang Thang Tam Street to Provincial Road 918, at the foot of Hung Loi Bridge, also have many spontaneous landfills on the sidewalk.
Some schools were also attacked by garbage, including An Thoi Secondary School. We educate students about how to protect the environment when there is a landfill right in front of the school gate.
Garbage also attacks the hospital, in front of the gate of Can Tho Traditional Medicine Hospital, there is a landfill that has existed for many years.
Many canals in Can Tho city are also flooded with garbage, giving off a foul smell, causing environmental pollution. There are some volunteers organizing to clean up trash on canals, but one person cleans up, a hundred people release it, it is impossible.
Lao Dong reporter noted that a Portuguese tourist and his family came to Can Tho to travel, expressing their regret to us: "The scenery of the land is peaceful but unfortunately there is still a lot of garbage...".
The tourist's words reminded me of a story from two years ago. There was a group of tourists visiting Cai Rang floating market, seeing too much garbage, so they asked tour guides to move to another province.
Garbage spoils the urban beauty, pollutes the environment, and threatens people's health. But garbage also causes another consequences, which is a negative impact on the development of local tourism.
No matter how beautiful the scenery is, the polluted and flooded environment makes visitors turn their backs.
Knowing that, spontaneous landfills still grow throughout Can Tho city.
Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Anh - Vice Chairman of Ninh Kieu Ward People's Committee - said that in the past, collection companies were not able to collect garbage in time, causing garbage to stagnate. Ninh Kieu Ward has received many petitions and calls from people.
People are upset, but who litters and dumps garbage into piles, into beaches, residential areas, and canals?
There are many people who are unconscious, where to dump trash is where to dump it. If there are no measures to prevent it, garbage in Can Tho will increasingly accumulate.
In addition to promoting awareness of maintaining public hygiene and not littering, organizing volunteer teams to clean up trash, the government needs to strictly punish those who litter.
