QCRACStar Team: Joins World Rotaract Week Written by: TP Marian Abio Rotaract Club of Mega Edsa
With a successful finish, the World Rotaract Week has come to a close after a series of celebrations and service. Such a global event, though held the first time in a pandemic, has initiated various wide-impact projects across the board. Hear from our publication team as they share their learning experience from the week, and we hope that you enjoyed it as much as we did!
MARIA LEONILA LATOZA
“The most memorable takeaway from that event was that cleanup drives and tree planting activities are not the best solution to better the environment. Indeed, such activities would help manage the waste disposed of, and that it fills up the number of trees that had been cut off for the sake of modernity. But the solution does not solely rely on these, nor on the practice of proper waste disposal. I realized, the moment that I saw how hundreds and thousands of waste come through the shoreline, that the issue is mainly on the consumption of such products that contribute to the overall waste at the dumpsites and such. I do agree that clean-up drives, tree planting activities, and proper waste disposal are good to the environment, but I realized that these are all secondary measures. The ground zero of caring for the environment begins at the moment you pick a product at the grocery or buy something at a local store and you decide your 'after-consumption-practice'.”
RAC ‘n Roll Event: Coastal Clean-up and tree planting activity at the Las Piñas-Parañaque Critical Habitat and Ecotourism Area (LPPCHEA) Host: Rotaract Club of Holy Spirit
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