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South-central provinces press ahead with plastic waste fight

Coastal provinces in the south-central region like Quang Ngai, Phu Yen and Binh Dinh have been busily tackling plastic waste in a bid to protect their marine environment.
South-central provinces press ahead with plastic waste fight ảnh 1Hon Yen coral reef in Phu Yen (Source: Industry and Trade Magazine)
Quang Ngai (VNA) – Coastal provinces in the south-central region like Quang Ngai, Phu Yen and Binh Dinh have been busily tacklingplastic waste in a bid to protect their marine environment.

Statistics from the Ministry of Natural Resources andEnvironment showed that Vietnam annually disposes between 0.28 and 0.73 milliontonnes of plastic waste to the sea, of which only 27% are recycled and reused.

In its resolution dated October 22, 2018, on a sustainabledevelopment strategy of Vietnam's marine economy to 2030, the 13th Party Central Committee set a goal for coastal localities tocollect and treat 100% of their hazardous waste and daily-life solid waste upto environmental standards.

In August 2020, the Quang Ngai People’s Committee issued aplan on marine plastic waste management for 2021-2025, aiming to halve the amountof the waste and push the number of tourism-service businesses sayingno to single-use plastic products and non-biodegradable plastic bags to 70%.

To this end, a host of measures has so far been carried out,focusing on the development of related human resources, finance, and technology,with polluters subject to hefty fines.

Quang Ngai has determined to control and treat plastic wasteat the source; and work toward completely eliminating plastic waste and hard-to-decompose plastic bags at trade centres and supermarkets. It ispreparing infrastructure serving a plan for sorting waste at source andgoing to collect household waste fees across localities simultaneously.

South-central provinces press ahead with plastic waste fight ảnh 2Illustrative photo (Source: baotainguyenmoitruong.vn)
Meanwhile, Phu Yen has sought cooperation with internationalorganisations to implement myriad environmental protection projects, includingthose on public capacity building serving the conservation of the Hon Yen coralreefs, and plastic waste collection at sea with the consent of the fishingcommunity.

Notably, a project on plastic waste management for 2022-2025, sponsored by theWorld Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Vietnam, is underway in Phu Yen, initially witnessingthe formation of such green models as no-plastic-waste schools and waste-sortinglocations in wet markets and residential areas.

Serving the similar cause, Binh Dinh and the United NationsDevelopment Programme (UNDP) have signed a memorandum of understanding on multi-sectoralcooperation, which involves their teamwork in circular economy and wastemanagement, blue economy, climate change adaptation, and biodiversity, amongmany other fields./.
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