Solving Waste Issues with Claygo - Clean As You Go
This is a page dedicated to the advocacy campaign of the students of Philippine Normal University OBTEC 1-22 as a partial fulfillment to the course Ethics.
30/03/2021
Why should we practice CLAYGO? (Infographics made by Group 3 in Ethics of OBTEC 1-22 )
1.) Simple means of showing care to the environment.
- The continuous rapid escalation of human activities stimulates an increase in the amount of waste in the country. Managing it is also becoming troublesome as undisciplined individuals are adjoining the problem. The improper management of waste may also contribute to and impose devastating effects on the environment, affecting many people. Responding to this issue, a simple act of routinely exercising the CLAYGO method would be a great way of demonstrating concern for the environment.
2.) It assists in minimizing the risk to hygine, health, and safety.
- Considering that we are currently in the phase of pandemic, proper sanitation is a salient thing to do to curtail the potential risk of transmitting the virus or any other harmful microorganism that would pester a person's body system. Practicing the CLAYGO method would be a great help in ensuring the health safety of the population. Moreover, it could also prevent possible encountered accidents brought by unmanaged wastes, reducing the risk of giving trouble to people.
3.) Prevents pests from being attracted.
- Practicing the CLAYGO method to be included in an individual's daily routine would reduce the probable inconvenience of attracting different pests such as cockroaches and rats from settling in. It also inhibits the risk of physical contamination and diseases brought by the pests.
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30/03/2021
The advocacy campaign for CLAYGO (Clean As You Go) endeavors to promote proper environmental sanitation as a viewed response action to alleviate the heightening garbage catastrophe in the Philippines as additional wastes brought by the COVID-19 pandemic emerges. The campaign also aims to strengthen the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations General Assembly that is envisioned to be achieved by 2030, specifically concerning SDG numbers 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, 13: Climate Action, 14: Life Below on Water, and 15: Life on Land. Aside from that, the CLAYGO campaign also aspires to prompt Filipino citizens to exercise appropriate principles of cleanliness and a reminder of their moral obligation of conserving, preserving, and maintaining a clean environment for everyone to settle in. Moreover, successfully maintaining the CLAYGO method as part of an individual's daily routine would ensure a risk-free surrounding, leaving no space for viruses and other harmful microorganisms to rest.