– Vietnam is the third highest plastic consumption country per capita in ASEAN (after Malaysia and Thailand) with 41.3 kg per year, according to a new report published by Ipsos Business Consulting. Plastic consumption increased by about 10% per year in the period 1990-2015, from 3.8 kg to approximately 41 kg. Last year, Vietnamese consumed more than 3.98 million tons of plastic.
– Vietnamese consumers have identified the misuse of plastic packaging is a serious problem but not equal to climate change, air pollution, waste treatment … In September, 2018, about one third of consumers participated in the survey had said it was indispensable for plastic bottles and food wrap in daily life.
– Due to its usability, few people care about its harm. Not only affecting the environment such as depleting soil nutrition, devastating ecosystems, causing inundation in urban areas, destroying marine and river ecology … plastic bags, waste but also seriously affect seriously to human health, especially digestive, respiratory and causing cancer diseases.
– From now on, let’s join hands to make a clean and safe living environment Vietnam, contribute to the international community to solve the environmental pollution caused by plastic waste.
