This Environment Month 2025, we celebrated the nature around us and the benefits it provides. But are we all aware that this precious gift needs to be protected? Our source of life needs help, from the growing plastic pollution to destructive forest activities.
The natural world is a work of wonder; it sustains our needs and even our wants. But with too much human interventions and single-use plastics, this wonder is fast being damaged.
This Environment Month 2025 with the theme: “Ending Global Plastic Pollution,” the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Region 6 is calling for the public’s cooperation to help maintain this beautiful creation and sustain our natural resources.
Want to know how you can help? There are several ways to start your day protecting our environment, lets begin with the three Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) and avoid single-use plastics. Cutting down the items you throw away at the garbage bin will eventually lessen the dumping at the landfill. This will not only lessen the land pollution but will stop the contamination of our water resources and imporve air quality.
Let us also practice conserving our water resources. In today’s climate change, every day is a surprise, whether there will be a storm or a very hot season. It is best to conserve our water resources to minimize future conflicts, try using your laundry water in cleaning the house or washing car. The less water you use the less wastewater ends up in the ocean.
If conserving water helps, so it’s the same with conserving energy. Remember to switch-off appliances when not in use and try to change to long-lasting light bulbs. It is a bright idea afterall.
Let us also not forget to grow trees and let it thrive, because planting alone without taking care of it will result to low numbers of growing greens. Trees are big help to the environment. Aside from the fact that it gives us the oxygen we breathe and take the carbon dioxide from the air, it also provides food we eat and shades that cool us. Plus, let us not forget it helps combat climate change.
With all these ways to help our environment heal, let us not forget to spread the words and educate others. Negligence is not an excuse not to help, afterall we are living in one environment.
“This Environment Month, let us keep in mind that everything we do, whether it is good or bad can affect the environment and the people, from present to the future,” DENR 6 Regional Executive Director Raul L. Lorilla. /DENR 6
