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

Each traveler in Vietnam on average discharges 5-10 plastic bags, 2-4 plastic bottles and milk cartons every day. Nguyen Anh Tuan, director of the Institute for Tourism Development Research (ITDR), an ...

The campaign was initiated by the Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Strategy, Policy, and Environment (ISPAE), and the Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade, in coordination with Unilever ...

HANOI (Xinhua): Vietnam's Ministry of Justice has put forward a plan to increase tax rates on non-biodegradable plastic bags and packaging, as well as impose new excise taxes on single-use food ...

In the National Action Plan for Management of Marine Plastic Litter by 2030, Vietnam targets to cut marine plastic litter by 50 percent by 2025, and by 75 percent by 2030. Some measures have been put ...

Drinking milk out of bags isn’t new—in fact, Canadians have been doing this since the late 1960s. Before Canadian food and packaging company DuPont unveiled their thin, plastic milk bags in ...

That was well short of the 420,000 tons of plastic scrap Vietnam imported last year, which was up 11% from 2022, according to U.N. data, which does not capture the entire volume.

Vietnam has instituted a tax on plastic bags and packaging since 2012 with the tax rate currently levied at 50,000 Vietnamese dong (2 U.S. dollars) per kilogram.