The role of retailers is becoming increasingly important not only in adjusting business operations but also in leading ...

The municipal finance department, meanwhile, is not allowed to pay for disposable plastic products. In June, Vietnam's escape from plastic took a sharp turn when Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc ...

The highest tax rate for single-use plastic bags of VND50,000 ($2.17) per kilogram is "not enough," he said at a conference in Hanoi last November. Opinion is divided on Vietnam taking plastic ...

The Vietnam Plastics Association (VPA)’s statistics showed that in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City alone, the amount of plastic bags consumed is about 25,000 tons per month, excluding eight billion plastic ...

THE nation will ban the use of all plastic bags from 2030, including those in wet markets, Vietnam News Agency reported. The country has also set a target of using 100% environmentally-friendly ...

For one, you’re opening a smaller amount of milk at a time, so even though the opened bag does go bad faster, the remaining sealed bags in your 4-liter three-pack stay good for much longer. For ...

However, the plastic innovations didn’t stop there. Around 1967, American chemical company DuPont introduced the thin, polyethylene milk bag known as a pillow pouch to the Canadian market as an ...

In Canada, milk is available in jugs, cartons, bags and glass bottles. A new analysis reveals which type of container has the smallest environmental footprint — from container production to ...