Brand new, Surabaya Environmental Expo was held on 23rd April in Balai Kota Surabaya. This event was organized by Himpunan Mahasiswa Teknik Lingkungan (HMTL) ITS or student organization in my major. I already being part of it by 3 years, and this year I become secretary of this event.

Surabaya Environmental Expo was one of sub event of ENVIRONATION 2016, and first time held in this year. Correlating with this year Earth Day theme, Trees for the Earth, we gave away some baby trees to society. The trees mostly are flower or herbal plant which usually planted in garden. To make them easier to plant, we also put some instruction about how to plant the baby tree. In hope, they will truly plant it in their home.

To celebrate Earth Day, this event also makes free emission test for cars. Not only society, but police and taxi also joint the test! For those who passed emission test, we gave them a sticker. From 309 cars, about 82, 85% passed and 17, 15% failed. And most of the failed one was diesel cars.

We close this event by signed a petition about emission reduction for Surabaya free of pollution. The committee and guest (from other community) signed them altogether.

Even though this event made for celebrating Earth Day, but this earth won?t stop getting sick if we still produce many emission and cutting trees all over the world. So let?s celebrate Earth Day everyday with many small steps like use reusable bag or bring tumbler.