Vietnam : Plastic Pollution Diagnostics
In response to a request from the Government of Vietnam, this World Bank study was conducted from July 2020 to April 2021 to deepen knowledge about the different plastic waste types leaking into rivers and the ocean in Vietnam and identify their ma...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC : World Bank
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099731406282241639/P1673070d02f2c0be080740356b6b0e3deb http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37693 |
| Summary: | In response to a request from the
Government of Vietnam, this World Bank study was conducted
from July 2020 to April 2021 to deepen knowledge about the
different plastic waste types leaking into rivers and the
ocean in Vietnam and identify their market alternatives for
potential substitution. This report summarizes three
diagnostics: field surveys on riverbanks, and at coastal
sites to determine the extent of plastic pollution, and the
top 10 polluting items; remote sensing and net trawl surveys
that monitored plastic waste in, and alongside, waterways
that flow into the ocean; and a preliminary analysis of
alternatives to Vietnam’s most-polluting plastic items. Key
messages include: plastic waste was by far the most abundant
type of waste collected in the field surveys; take-away food
packaging waste was the most abundant source of plastic
waste found in the field surveys followed by
fisheries-related waste and household-related waste; and the
Clean Coast Index (CCI) measurement, which is a tool to
assess relative coastal cleanliness, showed that 71 percent
of the coastal sites surveyed were extremely dirty. The
objective of the diagnostics was to deepen knowledge about
the different plastic waste types leaking into rivers and
the ocean in Vietnam, and identify and analyze their market
alternatives for potential substitution. The field and river
monitoring surveys aimed to identify the priority plastic
items (i.e. the top 10 polluters) to inform subsequent
analysis of targeted measures for phasing out low-value
plastic items. The objective was to identify the quantities
and types of plastic waste, and the key locations where the
waste is entering Vietnam’s waterways. The overarching goal
of the surveys was to inform government agencies, mobilize
their buy-in to solve plastic waste problems, build their
capacity, and develop local relationships. |
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