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HCM City campaign calls for joint actions to reduce plastic waste

A campaign named “Day to clean plastic waste 2019” was launched in Ho Chi Minh City on March 9 to raise public awareness and call for practical actions to protect the environment.
HCM City campaign calls for joint actions to reduce plastic waste ảnh 1Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council Pham Duc Hai (first from left) gives farbic bags to local residents (Source: VNA)

HCM City (VNA) – A campaign named “Day to clean plastic waste 2019”was launched in Ho Chi Minh City on March 9 to raise public awareness and callfor practical actions to protect the environment.

Speaking at the event, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s CouncilPham Duc Hai stressed that protecting the environment is the responsibility ofall people.

To address plastic waste-related issues, the engagement of all ministries,sectors, socio-political organisations, enterprises and individuals in the workis needed, Hai said.

Canadian Consul General in HCM City Kyle Nunas appreciated the city’sefforts to tackle plastic waste issues, especially its initiative to classifywastes and launch of the campaign.

After the launch ceremony, HCM City’s leaders and foreign ConsulsGeneral delivered fabric bags to shop owners and local residents at Ben Thanhmarket, while representatives from Consulates General, departments, sectors andorganisations and local people collected plastic waste on several streets.

On this occasion, a roundtable was held to make people understand moreabout impacts of plastic waste pollution and measures to prevent plastic waste.

Vietnam is one of Asia’s five worst polluters of ocean plastic waste,according to international organisations. With 13 million tonnes of wastereleased to the ocean every year, the country ranks 17th in the world for oceanplastic waste pollution.

Although there are no official statistics on the amount and varieties ofplastic in the Vietnamese sea and islands, plastic waste is easy to see inVietnamese waters, with the country’s 112 estuaries the main gateways ofplastic to the ocean.

Numbers from Vietnam’s Association of Plastic illustrate the scale ofthe problem. In 1990, each Vietnamese consumed 3.8kg of plastic per year, but25 years later, the figure hit 41kg.

As many as 1,000 plastic bags are used each minute but only 27 percentof them are treated and recycled.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) estimated thatabout 80 tonnes of plastic waste and bags are thrown away every day in Hanoiand HCM City combined.-VNA
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