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Themed "Pick Up Rubbish – Reach Out Global", the campaign ‘Clean Up Vietnam’ will return for the fifth time with a larger scale and an increased number of participants.

Hanoi needs an urgent and optimal solution for waste treatment, environmental experts have said, suggesting the construction of modern waste treatment facilities and waste sorting at source are key points to improve the city’s waste treatment capacity.

This is an environmental campaign of the Let's Do It! Hanoi. The event attracted more than 700 volunteers with many young people.

Garbage from take-away food and drinks accounts for 44% of plastic waste found at surveyed sites in Vietnam, according to the World Bank (WB).

Solid household waste must be sorted and put in trash bags, according to a new Government decree.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the centre for Supporting Green Development and PRO Vietnam have donated 54 ‘green houses’ (dust bins made from reform plastic) and waste classification tools to Hoi An City’s Women’s Union to boost recycling and zero plastic waste in the community.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) has urged cities and provinces to take measures in environmental protection and the treatment of COVID-19-related waste.

Almost all landfills in Hanoi are at bursting point – overloaded with garbage and causing a serious headache for local authorities.

Hanoi plans to build the second waste-to-energy plant on the outskirts to serve the capital city’s garbage treatment.

Vietnam’s average housing floor area per person in 2020 was only 24sq.m, failing to meet the set target of 25 sq.m, according to an official from the Ministry of Construction. ​

Thailand’s National Energy Policy Council (NEPC) plans to increase the number of new waste-to-energy (WTE) projects next year to ease worries about the growing volume of garbage.

Campaign “World Cleanup Day 2020” was launched in Hanoi on October 17 by Let's Do It! Hanoi organisation, aiming at raising the public awareness of and calling for the community to join actions towards the capital city’s green environment.

Thailand will tighten its ban on electronic waste and plastic garbage smuggled from abroad, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Varawut Silpa-archa on December 25.

Thailand’s ranking in production of the world’s marine garbage volume has improved due to a remarkable decrease in the amount of single-use plastic and foam containers, reported the National News Bureau of Thailand (NNT).

To help deal with plastic waste, the Philippines plans to soon put into use a new 25 million peso (481,877 USD) garbage-disposal plant in Metro Manila, the Nikkei Asia Review reported on September 14.

Giant retailers, plastic manufacturing firms and supermarkets in Thailand have reached an agreement to stop supplying single-use plastic bags to customers from early 2010.

Indonesia has sent hundreds of garbage-filled shipping containers back to their countries of origin as the Southeast Asian nation pushes back against becoming a dumping ground for foreign trash, the country’s customs agency said on September 4.

Indonesia has sent tonnes of Australian garbage out of the country, as Southeast Asian nations push back against serving as dumps for foreign trash.

Marine pollution, mainly caused by plastic waste, is now the world’s second biggest environmental challenge after climate change. ASEAN countries have taken specific actions to reduce trash.

Ho Chi Minh City plans to treat garbage buried at three non-active landfills, the municipal People’s Committee has said.