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Quick questions: Young Vietnamese on the global plastic bag fashion trend

Quick questions: Young Vietnamese on the global plastic bag fashion trend

We ask young people, from university students to celebs, about the fashion world’s new craze on plastic bags.
Whale dies in Thailand after swallowing 80 plastic bags

Whale dies in Thailand after swallowing 80 plastic bags

An autopsy revealed 80 plastic bags weighing up to eight kilograms in the creature’s stomach.
June 3, 2018 | 08:10 pm PT
Ban plastic bags? UN seeks to cut pollution as recycling falls short

Ban plastic bags? UN seeks to cut pollution as recycling falls short

Up to five trillion plastic bags are used worldwide each year.
June 4, 2018 | 07:30 pm PT
An expat couple launches straw wars in Vietnam

An expat couple launches straw wars in Vietnam

Julia Mesner and Michael Burdge saw a monkey munching a plastic bag and decided to do something about it.
August 8, 2018 | 06:00 pm PT
New Year celebrations trash Hanoi pedestrian zone

New Year celebrations trash Hanoi pedestrian zone

Trash littered on streets and sidewalks across the Hoan Kiem Lake area greeted Hanoi on the first day of 2019.
December 31, 2018 | 10:31 pm PT
Seven Chinese nationals in Zimbabwe court over rhino horn stash

Seven Chinese nationals in Zimbabwe court over rhino horn stash

Seven Chinese nationals appeared in a Zimbabwe court Thursday after they were arrested last month with rhino horn pieces worth nearly a million dollars.
January 3, 2019 | 05:54 pm PT
Vietnam’s biggest bookstore chain to eschew plastic bags

Vietnam’s biggest bookstore chain to eschew plastic bags

Fahasa will stop using single-use plastic next month and shift to biodegradable bags and paper wrappings.
July 23, 2019 | 01:00 am PT
Ha Long Bay to pilot plastic ban on tourism boats

Ha Long Bay to pilot plastic ban on tourism boats

A pilot project will see 15 firms stop using plastic bags, bottled water and wet paper towels on Ha Long Bay.
July 29, 2019 | 07:46 pm PT
A vendor with her campaign fights plastic bag blight

A vendor with her campaign fights plastic bag blight

Tran Thi Bao Huong, a vegetable vendor in an alley of HCMC’s Binh Thanh District, has joined the fight against plastic bags.
August 10, 2019 | 05:26 pm PT
Vietnam plastic waste problem goes from bad to worse

Vietnam plastic waste problem goes from bad to worse

Vietnamese per capita plastic waste is the third highest in Southeast Asia after increasing more than 10-fold in the last three decades.
September 6, 2019 | 12:03 am PT
Vietnam produces biodegradable plastic bag from waste

Vietnam produces biodegradable plastic bag from waste

Vietnam has started producing biodegradable plastic bags that can break down in less than three years into CO2 and water when buried.
September 24, 2019 | 08:12 pm PT
Public reluctance impedes fight against plastic

Public reluctance impedes fight against plastic

Vietnam seeks to reduce plastic use, but is hampered by people seeing plastic bags as convenient and rampant evasion of plastic tax.  
October 24, 2019 | 04:40 pm PT
Consumption tax proposed as Vietnam struggles to fight plastic bag use

Consumption tax proposed as Vietnam struggles to fight plastic bag use

Plastic bags should be made more expensive so that people can be dissuaded from using them, a deputy minister has proposed.
November 15, 2019 | 12:37 am PT
First Vietnamese market says no to plastic bags

First Vietnamese market says no to plastic bags

Nhon Market in northern Bac Ninh Province is the country's first market to say no to plastic bags, encouraging customers to bring their own baskets.
December 14, 2019 | 04:45 am PT
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