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Update news reduce plastic waste
Every month, a group of university volunteers called “Share To Smile” (STS) in HCM City exchanges small pots of cacti for five or more used plastic bottles.
Kristin Hughes, director of the Global Plastic Action Partnership, talks about solutions that are needed in Vietnam, which is a disproportionately high contributor of plastic pollution into the oceans.
To reduce the plastic waste released into the environment, especially to the ocean, HCM City has approved a project that encourages the recycling of waste, especially plastic waste picked up by private garbage collectors.
VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam is one of Asia’s five worst polluters of ocean plastic waste, according to international organisations. With 13 million tonnes of waste released to the ocean every year,