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Marking World Environment Day on June 5, Minister of Environment Say Sam Al called on local authorities to encourage people to dispose of garbage properly to avoid harming people’s health and the environment.
“The environment ministry requests that the local authorities promote participation in sanitation, tree planting and packaging garbage properly to avoid improper burning of litter or disposal of garbage that may affect human and animal health and environmental quality,” Sam Al said in a statement seen by The Post on May 3.
Sam Al also suggested that ministries, institutions, schools, pagodas and hospitals all participate in disseminating these messages through poster competitions in schools, tree planting, cleaning and sanitation campaigns both inside and outside the premises of their facilities.
Minister of Environment Say Samal called for the effective use of natural resources, noting that they must be carefully managed and used for the benefit of the Cambodian people because of their limited availability and supply.
“We need to use Cambodia’s natural resources to improve the standard of living of our population, in the same manner as every other nation has done as its own economy developed. We also know that these resources are limited, and so we must find innovative ways to use them more efficiently and sustainably,” his statement read.
Samal – who also serves as the chairperson for the National Council for Sustainable Development – released this statement to coincide with the launching of the Asian Vision Institute’s sustainable development goals conference held via webinar on April 26.