Though Hanoi five years ago created a bus rapid transit (BRT) system to reduce the use of private vehicles and ease traffic jams, the goals have not been met.

After VietNamNet reported about thousands of tons of furnace dust discharged from the steel refining process of Thai Nguyen Iron and Steel JSC (Tisco) in Thai Nguyen City, the owner of the waste took action.

Tonnes of rubbish have covered a beach in the central province of Ha Tinh, causing environmental pollution.

Over 1km of beach in Tam Hai Island, Quang Nam Province, is completely covered in rubbish swept in by the tides.

Everyone can protect the environment in many ways, including recycling plastic waste. In response to World Environment Day 2020, let’s meet some youngsters who have given plastic waste a new life!

More than 100 people have helped collect rubbish on a beach in the southern central province of Ninh Thuan. 

Plastics undoubtedly affect our environment – and they are shaping up to be an emerging threat to human health as with every breath and every bite, plastics are entering our bodies – without researchers having a full grasp of the implications. 

Vietnam generates large amounts of waste every day – food waste, construction waste, old clothes and furniture, batteries, plastic bags and much more.

The southern province of Bac Lieu is facing rising mounds of rubbish while the waste treatment plant project is stagnant.

Nearly 90 per cent of the country’s urban sewage is discharged untreated directly into waterways, according to a report by the Ministry of Construction.

Tonnes of garbage have been discovered dumped on beaches in southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau City.

A town in the central province of Ha Tinh is struggling with waste disposal following the closure of a landfill, while local residents oppose a new dumping ground.

Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has signed an instruction asking organisations in the health sector to strictly minimise plastic waste.

VietNamNet Bridge - Thousands of containers of plastics and scrap materials are stuck at ports, causing problems for government agencies. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Environmental experts say HCMC needs to find solutions to smart water use, an important part of the plan to develop a smart city. 

Green development projects in Vietnam are catching attention of foreign investors on account of the Government’s favourable policies on land, taxes and capital as well as a large number of potential customers in the country.

From waste like cartoons, eggshells, straw, beer and beverage cans and nails, local artisans Nguyen Van Quang and Doan Niem have turned them into artworks which are priced from hundreds of thousands of dong to millions of dong.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Built on an area of 5,000 m2, with some gold-inlaid details, the temple of the Tran Family is the largest of its kind in Ha Tinh, a poor province in central Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – The large waste treatment plant in the southern province of An Giang, designed to treat garbage and make organic fertilizer, is now being used as a garbage dump.