VOV.VN - A wide range of special activities were held at the Installation Art Festival in Hoi An on December 22 as part of efforts to reduce plastic waste with the aim of protecting the marine environment.

VOV.VN - The 20th edition of the Vietnam International Plastics & Rubber Industry Exhibition (VietnamPlas 2022) kicked off on November 23 at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC) in District 7 of Ho Chi Minh City.

VOV.VN - Miss Vietnam 2022 will continue to highlight a range of criteria for selecting candidates who possess natural beauty and have not undergone plastic surgery, said Le Xuan Son, head of the beauty pageant’s organising board.

VOV.VN - A total of 13 winners of the press award “Mitigating marine plastic debris” 2022 were honoured during a ceremony held on October 25 at the Voice of Vietnam (VOV)’s headquarters in Hanoi.

VOV.VN - While waste collection is an unsteady job with limited hygienic conditions, informal labourers – mostly women – play a crucial role in the plastic waste segregation at source and collection in Vietnam.

The second part of the 25th Intergovernmental Meeting of the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA), chaired by the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE), was wrapped up in Hanoi on October 13.

East Asian Seas countries are current in the process of negotiating a global agreement to put an end to plastic pollution and marine plastic litter, said Pham Thu Hang, Deputy Director-General of the Vietnam Institute of Seas and Islands (VISI) on October 12.

Cooperation with regional partners will enable Vietnam to gain experiences from other countries in monitoring and assesing marine debris, said Dr. Nguyen Le Tuan, Director of the Vietnam Institute of Seas and Islands (VISI) on October 10.

The potential for co-processing waste, including non-recyclable plastic, as an alternative fuel in the cement industry in Vietnam is huge.

A kindergarten school made of recycled plastic – the first of this kind in Vietnam, was put into operation on September 9 in Cao Son commune in Muong Khuong district of the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai.