The use of plastic bags and products in traditional markets and shops continues to plague Hanoi.

A Vietnamese university lecturer has won a prize in the UNDP’s Ending Plastic Pollution Innovation Challenge.

Nestor Catalan, a Spanish man who has been living in Vietnam for many years, is determined to spend the rest of his life working for what he deems meaningful projects. PLASTICPeople is one of them.

Three Vietnamese companies have won a regional challenge to combat plastic waste in Ha Long Bay.

An initiative to form a supermarket coalition is being developed with the support of the EU and the German Government, aiming to reduce the use of plastic shopping bags and protect the environment.

Recycling is a particularly useful measure in cutting plastic waste. Let’s find out more about a recycling project in Ho Chi Minh City where a group of students have managed to produce building bricks from plastic waste.

Great strides have been made in the past to reduce the amount of plastic waste in the ocean around Vietnam, but more effort is needed to tackle the growing problem. 

Yen refused a good job and a comfortable life in a city three years ago to settle down in a mountainous area, even amid criticism that she was an eccentric woman.

The Vietnamese Government has over the past time exerted a great deal of effort in addressing plastic waste in oceans by introducing various policies and regulations to tackle the scourge.

A team of third-year students at the HCM City University of Technology has developed lightweight bricks from plastic waste.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment kicked off the National Plastics Action Partnership and the Mitigating Marine Plastic Debris Project in Vietnam yesterday.

Pham Thanh Tri from Quang Ngai founded EcoFish Vietnam to teach young people to classify and reuse plastic waste.

The ancient town of Hoi An, in co-operation with UNESCO, has launched the 2020 Plastic Action Day, boosting drastic activities in protecting the ocean and saying ‘No’ to single-use plastic products.

PepsiCo Vietnam and its partners, the Center of Education and Development (CED) and National Economics University (NEU), have kicked off a 2-year project called “Increase awareness in plastic waste management”.

Nguyen Thi Ngoc, a student at Hanoi University of Science and Technology and a member of the Green Eye Group in the Youth for Environment Project, has proposed that customers should be allowed to take their used milk cartons or bottles

It has been more than a year since the fight against plastic waste was launched on a national scale and despite claims of success by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment,

People living in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1 exchanged plastic bottles, paper and other solid waste for rice, cooking oil, salt, and potted plants during the last two weeks.

Plastic waste can take up to hundreds of years to decompose, creating an increasing burden on landfills, particularly when the sites run out of space to bury garbage.

Vietnam is the fourth largest plastic polluter in the world. Each year, up to 700,000 tonnes of plastic waste is thrown away and not recycled properly.

A group of Vietnamese artists have produced a music video titled “No, Thanks”, aiming to spread the message “Say no to single-use plastics.”