Illustrative photo. (Source: moitruongxanhvn.com) Other goals include to collect, reuse, recycle and treat85 percent of plastic waste; to reduce the volume of plastic waste dumped to oceanby half; to have 100 percent of tourism complexes, hotels and other lodging facilitiesnot use non-biodegradable plastic bags and single-use plastic products by 2025.
Additionally, the project will gradually cut theproduction and consumption of non-biodegradable plastic bags and single-useplastic products in daily life; while raising awareness among organisations,enterprises and the community about the harmful effects of single-use plasticitems to the environment, ecosystem and human health, and encouraging consumersto shift away from single-use and non-biodegradable plastics to eco-friendlyalternatives.
It will campaign producers and distributors of single-useand non-biodegradable plastic products to shift to eco-friendly equivalents andpromote the development and application of advanced technology in plastic wastemanagement and manufacturing of environmentally-friendly products.
The project will also build a network of localcommunicators who are tasked to instruct people in how to properly classify, reuseand treat plastic waste and waste at large; and integrate knowledge aboutsingle-use and non-biodegradable plastics into school curriculums at alllevels.
Vietnam is said to be the world's fourth-largest marineplastic polluter after China, Indonesia and the Philippines. Each year, thecountry reportedly dumps an estimate of 300,000 – 700,000 tonnes of plasticwaste into the ocean per year, accounting for 6 percent of the world's marineplastics./.
VNA
