Cambodia’s Ministry of Environment and Germany’s Everwave GmbH have reached a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the implementation of a project, called “Blue Cambodia-Everwave’s Cleanup Project”.

The MoU was inked in Phnom Penh on Aug. 28 under the presidency of H.E. Dr. Eang Sophalleth, Minister of Environment and H.E. Stefan Messerer, Ambassador of Germany to Cambodia.

The project focuses on environmental sanitation including waste collection in and near water sources as well as waste sorting.

H.E. Dr. Eang Sophalleth thanked the government and people of Germany and partner organisations for their high attention to the regional and global environment, especially to the reduction of plastic pollution.

The minister also underlined the ministry’s three-pillar Circular Strategy on Environment: Clean, Green and Sustainable.

For the first strategy, the Ministry of Environment has successfully conducted two phases of its clean-up campaign. The first-phase campaign, ‘Today I Do Not Use Plastic,” engaged ov
er 8.5 million students, workers, and other Cambodians from all walks of life, while the second-phase campaign, ‘Clean Cambodia! Khmer Can Do,’ has attracted the participation of 25,580 people in 634 communes and Sangkat in 124 cities, districts, and Khan across the country within nearly three months.

With the success, the Ministry of Environment will launch the third phase in the near future, focusing on garbage storage and separation, to make Cambodia clean by 2025.

Source: Agence Kampuchea Presse