Hanoi's response to plastic packet-free Sunday
People from all the 29 precincts and districts of Vietnam ’s capital
city poured into the street on August 8 in response to the “Hanoi-Sunday
free from plastic packets” programme.
People from all the 29 precincts and districts of Vietnam ’s capital
city poured into the street on August 8 in response to the “Hanoi-Sunday
free from plastic packets” programme.
The main event was held at the Ho Tay Water Park, along with a large number of environmentally-friendly activities across Hanoi .
Groups of paddlers cycled around main streets with posters for environmental protection and promotion girls and boys distributed environmentally-friendly packets at supermarkets and traditional markets. As many as 60,000 paper and cloth packets, which are easily disintegrated in the environment, will be distributed free to shoppers on this occasion.
The event was the follow-up of another environmental programme called “Mitigation of the use of plastic packets for environment” which has just concluded after seven months of test-running.
The Director of the Hanoi Environmental Protection Fund, Nguyen Thi Kim Thanh, said the freshly-concluded pilot programme has shown encouraging results. Leaders in the retail industry such as the Hanoi Trade Corporation and Metro supermarket have set targets of establishing a habit of using environmentally-friendly packets instead of plastic packets among customers after a certain period of time of distributing paper and cloth packets.
Metro giant even prints a slogan “Joining hands in protecting environment” on the surface of their packets.
Thanh acknowledged that it was not overnight to establish such as habit for shoppers and called for long-term action to be taken such as information campaigns to raise public awareness against plastic packets and their harms to the environment.
Statistics released by the Hanoi Supermarket Association showed that a housewife uses at least 12 plastic packets a day, putting a huge quantity of such environmental enemy out of control./.
The main event was held at the Ho Tay Water Park, along with a large number of environmentally-friendly activities across Hanoi .
Groups of paddlers cycled around main streets with posters for environmental protection and promotion girls and boys distributed environmentally-friendly packets at supermarkets and traditional markets. As many as 60,000 paper and cloth packets, which are easily disintegrated in the environment, will be distributed free to shoppers on this occasion.
The event was the follow-up of another environmental programme called “Mitigation of the use of plastic packets for environment” which has just concluded after seven months of test-running.
The Director of the Hanoi Environmental Protection Fund, Nguyen Thi Kim Thanh, said the freshly-concluded pilot programme has shown encouraging results. Leaders in the retail industry such as the Hanoi Trade Corporation and Metro supermarket have set targets of establishing a habit of using environmentally-friendly packets instead of plastic packets among customers after a certain period of time of distributing paper and cloth packets.
Metro giant even prints a slogan “Joining hands in protecting environment” on the surface of their packets.
Thanh acknowledged that it was not overnight to establish such as habit for shoppers and called for long-term action to be taken such as information campaigns to raise public awareness against plastic packets and their harms to the environment.
Statistics released by the Hanoi Supermarket Association showed that a housewife uses at least 12 plastic packets a day, putting a huge quantity of such environmental enemy out of control./.