HAI PHONG – On THE night of the 30th of Tet, while the house was shabby welcoming New Year’s Eve, hundreds of environmental workers in the city spread the sweeping directions through the night on each street.
Female working environment on New Year’s Eve.
Mr. Tran Quang Dang, General Director of Hai Phong Urban Environment Company Limited, said that on the days leading up to Tet, the amount of trash increased 4-5 times compared to normal days, especially day and night of Tet 30. This is the time when environmental workers work the hardest of the year.
To ensure that the garbage is not stagnant in the days before, during and after Tet, according to Mr. Dang, 100% of the company’s employees (nearly 1,500 people) go to the streets and work through New Year’s Eve. Some workers working at the waste treatment plant are also transferred by the company to the center to support the garbage collection teams and teams.
Under the electric lights on New Year’s Eve, the workers diligently collect garbage on Le Hong Phong Street.
Ms. Do Thi Huyen with 14 years of experience in the profession. Ms. Huyen said that both husband and wife work together as urban environmental workers. Huyen’s family is in An Thai commune, An Lao district, 20 km from the city center. Every day, she was driven by her husband to work, and came home together in the evening.
She said, many people hope for Tet, the sanitation workers like her are “afraid” of Tet, because the amount of garbage on Tet is many times higher than normal, so the work of the workers is also much harder. “At the beginning of the new year, I just hope that people, especially young people, will raise their awareness of environmental protection more, not littering indiscriminately, put them in the designated places so that people who work like us can return to Family sooner ”, Ms. Huyen said.
Due to the influence of the Covid-19 epidemic, kumquat, peaches fell in price, slow consumption, many sellers tried to stay until 10pm at night 30 with the hope of salvaging but no one bought. Thousands of kumquat trees and peach branches were cut across the body, crushed, and thrown in disarray at the Xuan flower market on Le Hong Phong street.
The environmental workers put the kumquats on the trucks and take them to the landfill.
Just pushing 2 garbage trucks collected from Lot 22 Dong Khe, Dong Khe ward, Ngo Quyen district to the temporary gathering point on Le Hong Phong street, waiting for the car to move, Mr. Linh (husband of Chi Huyen) looked up at the fireworks. People shot on New Year’s Eve.
“Although many years have to welcome New Year’s Eve on the street, but meaningful work of cleaning the streets is the motivation for the workers to try,” he shared.
At 2:30 a.m. on the morning of the first day of Tet, the last garbage truck trip at Xuan Le Hong Phong flower market is collected and transferred to a specialized vehicle.
More than 2am, in the city center, the garbage collection and street cleaning are completed. The workers finished working day through New Year’s Eve, hurriedly pushing their carts to the gathering place to return to their families.
Le Hong Phong street is clean and beautiful again.
In a corner of the flower garden in the city center, a female worker is waiting for her loved one to return.