Humanities students "Exchanging shells - confessing love"

Protect the environment from the smallest actions…

The habit of using bottled drinks of students today has been releasing a lot of plastic bottles of all kinds into the environment. Of which, the plastic collected for recycling is PET plastic (numbered 1 at the bottom of the bottle) - the type of plastic that can be pulled into polyethylene terephthalate fibers or brought to craft villages to be crushed into microplastic particles, which can be used to make toys or construction products, interior and exterior decoration...

Understanding this reality, the Youth Union - Student Association of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU, Hanoi has come up with the idea of ​​collecting and exchanging plastic bottles for students in the school, with the aim of contributing to protecting the green, clean and beautiful environment through practical and friendly volunteer activities. This activity is combined with the Lagom Vietnam project to raise awareness of environmental protection, aiming to change students' behavior, creating a clean and friendly living environment.
 
Give and take...

“Exchanging bottles - Confessing love” is part of the “My class volunteers” series of activities within the “My class is number one” contest. When participating in collecting 5 plastic bottles within the specified time, you will be granted a certificate of completion of the “Good volunteer” criteria in the “5 Good Students” criteria set. At the same time, when participating in exchanging bottles, students can express their thoughts, wishes, questions and even suggestions about the Green Humanity volunteer activities through the “Confessing love” Station.
 
Small actions, big meanings...

When it first started, the project received support from many students who supported a green lifestyle. When the project ended, there were 80 kg of batteries, 3,993 plastic bottles, 758 students who responded and 402 "confessions" expressed. Along with the series of events, there were also discussions on the topics of the environment, climate change, green living...
 
With the above results, "Giving Shells - Confessing Love" was successfully held, an important event in the series of activities of the Student Association of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities with the hope of contributing to spreading, connecting and developing the network among students towards the goal of protecting the environment.