Từ khóa: #environmental pollution

Da Lat farmers exchange pesticide packaging for gardening protective gears

Da Lat farmers exchange pesticide packaging for gardening protective gears

According to the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Lam Dong Province, the rate of pesticide packaging in the area being collected and treated properly is not high, only about 8 - 9 percent, leading to the situation that pesticide packaging are littered in fields, rivers, streams, and canals or ditched them together with household wastes causing environmental pollution.
Downside of craft villages, craft village industrial clusters

Downside of craft villages, craft village industrial clusters

In the face of serious environmental pollution in many craft villages, in recent years, many localities have focused on building craft village industrial clusters to move production facilities out of residential areas. But in reality, the number of households willing to relocate is quite modest. Meanwhile, many craft village industrial clusters either become overgrown and abandoned fields of grass or turn into busy residential and service areas with rampant violations.
Nurturing life for sea – preserve sea coral

Nurturing life for sea – preserve sea coral

Members of the PADI Vietnam diving team name the coral culture trips ‘Planting a branch of coral - giving it to future generations'. Their acts - the first seeds have been sown in the seabed - will hopefully further be followed by others.
National strategy on environmental protection to 2030 approved

National strategy on environmental protection to 2030 approved

Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh has signed a decision approving the National Strategy for Environmental Protection to 2030 with a vision until 2050, in which the Government sets targets to prevent the increasing trend of environmental pollution, solve urgent environmental problems, and step by step improve and restore the quality of the environment.
Thanh Hoa authority throws book at 10 polluters

Thanh Hoa authority throws book at 10 polluters

Le Duc Giang, Deputy Chairman of the People’s Committee in Thanh Hoa Province, decided to throw the book at ten companies that have discharged wastewater into Ma River causing environmental pollution, said the office of the provincial People’s Committee.
Enterprises start increasing waste recycling

Enterprises start increasing waste recycling

In the context that natural resources are increasingly exhausted, the promotion of recycling and reuse of wastes, by-products, and defective products in the production and processing process is a measure to save costs and protect the environment effectively. Recycled wastes not only contribute to reducing input materials but also limiting output gas emissions.
76 percent people advocate exhaust emission test for motorcycles

76 percent people advocate exhaust emission test for motorcycles

According to a survey, more than 76 percent of people agreed that that Ho Chi Minh City would implement the project of checking exhaust emission for motorcycles to reduce environmental pollution from 2025-2030 with the total investment of VND553 billion (US$24 million).  

Textile production for export at Phong Phu Textile Joint Stock Company. (Photo: SGGP)

Enterprises need to go green to maintain export

To limit the depletion of natural resources, environmental pollution, and the amount of generated waste, many countries around the world have introduced several trade barriers in order to realize a circular economy. Of which, many countries are currently the main export markets of Vietnam. This has forced Vietnamese enterprises to change to adapt and maintain export market share.
25,000 Vietnamese people die of liver cancer annually

25,000 Vietnamese people die of liver cancer annually

Liver cancer is the fastest growing cause of cancer death in Vietnam with more than 25,000 cases yearly, said the two-day scientific seminar in the central province of Thua Thien- Hue, said the Hue Central Hospital and the Vietnam Liver and Bile Association at the seminar.
Plastic waste collection in Tan Tap beach, Long An province (Photo: SGGP)

Plastic waste elimination efforts underway in Vietnam

Being one of five nations releasing the most plastic waste into the ocean with about 1.8 million tons a year, Vietnam has intensified communications campaigns against plastic products in order to reduce environmental pollution.


HCMC Party Secretary Nguyen Thien Nhan talks to Mr. Roald Lapperre, Dutch Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management (Photo: SGGP)

HCMC learns Dutch experience to tackle flooding, environmental pollution

Within the framework of the working visit to the Netherlands, the high ranking delegation of HCMC led by secretary of the city Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan talked to Dutch partners to learn their experiences in solving flooding, depression as well as environmental pollution, developing the knowledge economy and human resource training on May 20.