(VOVWORLD) - Residents in Hanoi, Hai Phong, Ho Chi Minh City, and Binh Duong are being encouraged to exchange beer cans, unused books, milk cartons, and straws for attractive gifts. This initiative is part of...
(VOVWORLD) - The fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4) to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, concluded Tuesday in Ottawa with an...
(VOVWORLD) - March 30 has been designated as “International Day of Zero Waste” since last year. Many activities to mark the occasion are underway across Vietnam
(VOVWORLD) - Environmental pollution from waste, especially plastic waste, is becoming increasingly urgent, seriously threatening the economy and human life, requiring strong global action. As a responsible member of the United Nations...
(VOVWORLD) -Melia Hanoi and Melia Ba Vi are the first two Vietnamese hotels that have implemented PlasticShreds, a new plastic upcycling program which seeks to reduce plastic waste
(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam will reduce the intensity of greenhouse gas emissions per GDP by at least 15% by 2030 compared to 2014, to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, according to...
(VOVWORLD) - Retailers that provide single-use plastic bags to customers will be fined from 2026, said an environment official
(VOVWORLD) - Japanese scientists say the Omicron variant of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) may survive on plastic and skin significantly longer than earlier versions of...
(VOVWORLD) -Officials of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on Tuesday worked with representatives of the Dutch Embassy in Vietnam and Clear Rivers on implementing a pilot project to...
(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese and foreign photographers will be able to enter their photos on environmental protection in a contest launched by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Career & Life magazine
(VOVWORLD) - The final pitching competition and awards ceremony for the Ending Plastic Pollution Innovation Challenge took place in Hanoi on Tuesday
(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnam Youth Union and its Bac Ninh branch have launched the “Limiting plastic waste in apartment buildings” model. In the month since it was launched, the model...
(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam is listed among the five worst polluters of ocean plastic waste, discharging between 280,000 and 730,000 tons of plastic waste every year into the ocean, according to the...
(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Sunday called for efforts to reduce plastic waste
(VOVWORLD) - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and photographer Nguyen Viet Hung, aka Lekima Hung, have co-organized a photo exhibition on plastic waste in Hanoi on Tuesday in response to World Environment Day...
(VOVWORLD) - The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment and Panasonic Vietnam have launched a month of action to prevent air pollution and plastic waste
(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has called for joint action to create a healthy, safe, and sustainable environment and deal with plastic waste
(VOVWORLD) - There will be more plastic waste than fish in the world's oceans by 2050 if actions are not taken
(VOVWORLD) - An action network project to reduce, reuse, or recycle plastic waste was launched on Thursday in Ha Long city, Quang Ninh province
(VOVWORLD) - The EU and the European Parliament on Wednesday agreed on details of a ban on single-use plastics, including plates, cutlery, and drinking straws, in a bid to reduce...