Vietnam faces worsening plastic bag pollutionVietnam is suffering from severe plastic bag pollution, as it is among four Asian countries discarding the largest volume of plastic bags, Tien Phong newspaper reports, citing experts from a seminar on June 4. Experts proposed banning local consumers from using plastic bags or further hiking the environmental protection tax on plastic bags. The country discards more than 30 billion plastic bags per year, as households in Vietnam use four plastic bags per day, on average. Meanwhile, Botswana has prohibited the use of plastic bags thinner than 0.024 millimeter and imposed taxes on thick bags, thus reducing by one half the consumption of plastic bags. China does not allow the use of plastic bags thinner than 0.025 millimeter, and has banned restaurants, supermarkets and retail stores from providing free plastic bags, reducing two-thirds of all plastic bags.

Source: VietNamNet News June 06, 2018 10:30 UTC