Recycled plastic dustbins and classified garbage boxes are donated to Hoi An City’s women’s union, promoting plastic waste reduction among the community and tourists. (Photo: VNA) The dust bins, which were recycled from plastic bags, single-use straws,styrofoam and low-value plastic waste, will be used to collect the single-useplastic and low-value waste for reform into useable tools, panels and furniturein Hoi An.
It also helps improve awareness in reducing plastic waste while promotingrecycling among the community and tourists.
Low-value plastic waste types, including plastic bags, pieces of net, lure,fishing lines, hard plastic buoys, floating foam buoys, foam boxes; styrofoamcontainers, hard plastic pieces, plastic straws, food, and confectionerypackages, are dumped because vendor garbage pickers cannot collect them.
In Hoi An, a tourism hub in central Vietnam, 30 percent of daily collectedwaste (about 110 tonnes) is low-value plastic waste (single-use cups andstraws, styrofoam, milk box and food packages).
Tourist trading activities accounted for 40 per cent of daily waste in Hoi An.
Evergreen Labs set up the reform plastic factory to classify and recycle 1,000tonnes of low-value plastic waste in Hoi An.
The Cham islands, 20km off the coast of Hoi An, have officially banned plasticsingle-use straws and cups and plastic bags.
About 100 businesses in Hoi An committed to reducing 30 percent single-useplastic and recycling 50 per cent of organic waste.
The ‘green houses’ programme has been implemented in the Marine Plastics andCoastal Communities initiative framework with support from the SwedishInternational Development Cooperation Agency, the Local Solution for PlasticPollution, sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development.
Bui Thi Thu Hien, Marine and Coastal Resources Program Coordinator at IUCN (VietnamOffice), said IUCN had launched a new garbage sorting programme as part ofefforts to reduce plastic waste in Vietnam.
Hien said IUCN and Greenhub had supported Marine Protected Areas staff in Vietnamto identify plastic waste, build a database on plastic waste, and offer policyadvice on reducing plastic waste and plastic production.
Tan Thanh weekend flea market on An Bang beach, 5km from Hoi An, has beenbuilding ‘green’ beach tourism by boosting plastic-free and zero-wasterecycling among the community and tourists.
Cham islands and Cam Thanh commune, two favoured destinations in Hoi An, havebeen building as the first ‘zero waste’ sites in central Vietnam./.
VNA
