Vietnam discards over three million tonnes of plastic waste a year

A worker at a site collecting plastic waste for recycling in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai. - Vietnam News/ANN

HANOI, July 29 (Vietnam News/ANN): Vietnam is considered to be one of the major plastic polluters in the world, discharging about 3.1 million tonnes of plastic waste every year, including 0.28-0.73 million tonnes of plastic waste discharged into the ocean.

The data has been revealed this week in a World Banks' report Vietnam: Plastic Pollution Diagnostics. The report was conducted from July 2020 to April 2021 to deepen knowledge about the different plastic waste types leaking into rivers and oceans in Việt Nam and identify market alternatives for potential substitution.