Since 2020, WWF-Vietnam has worked with departments and local authorities in 10 provinces and cities to reduce plastic waste. — Vietnam News
HANOI: After nearly five years of evaluating urban plastic reduction pilot models across Vietnam, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-Vietnam) has identified six highly effective initiatives and recommended scaling them up nationwide.
Since 2020, WWF-Vietnam has worked with departments and local authorities in 10 provinces and cities to reduce plastic waste, aiming to cut at least 30% of plastic pollution and eliminate plastic waste in nature by 2030.
These efforts have involved implementing pilot models focused on reducing, reusing and recycling plastic, raising public awareness, and strengthening waste management.
These initiatives have been introduced in many provinces.
They aim to improve household waste management, particularly plastic waste, while enhancing collection and treatment systems, increasing the recovery of recyclable materials, eliminating plastic pollution hotspots, and encouraging behavioural changes in plastic consumption and disposal.
Following extensive assessment, WWF-Vietnam has recognised six particularly successful models that could be expanded.
Among them is the initiative “Mobilising fishermen to bring garbage ashore” in Dong Hoi City, which has significantly reduced the amount of plastic waste dumped into the sea.
The programme not only helps protect marine ecosystems and aquatic resources but also promotes sustainable tourism.
Strongly supported by the local community, it has encouraged fishermen to participate by collecting waste for recycling, with proceeds contributing to a charity fund.
Another successful model is the “Market for sorting and composting organic waste.” This initiative has demonstrated an effective process for sorting, collecting, transporting and treating organic waste on a larger scale. — Viet Nam News/ANN
