The Danang City authorities have asked local departments to stop using plastic products at work and banned plastic bottles at official meetings and conferences.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Despite being a fairly new material with a little over 100 years of history, plastic has permeated every part of modern life.

VietNamNet Bridge - To record plastic pollution in the waters of Vietnam, Hung Lekima traveled 7,000 kilometers, including 3,260 kilometers of coastline, by motorbike.

VietNamNet Bridge - In late December, a 10-year old sea turtle with broken legs was discovered by SASA, the rescue force, and carried ashore for treatment in Da nang.

With a shared love of the sea, the six-member SaSa team has built up a network of marine species rescue centres from Da Nang to Quang Ngai to protect endangered ocean creatures like turtles, dolphins, sharks and whales. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Some years ago, international scientists found that Vietnam ranked high among countries that emit large amounts of plastic waste into the oceans. 

 A dead sperm whale that washed ashore in a national park in Indonesia had nearly 6kg (13 lbs) of plastic waste in its stomach, 

VietNamNet Bridge - A group of students from Le Quy Don, Tran Phu and Hanoi-Amsterdam high schools, who are members of Les Pas Vert Club, have made ecobricks from plastic waste.

VietNamNet Bridge – Minh Hang, a resident of Hanoi’s Cau Giay District, carries four to five plastic bags home from the market every day. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City is being slowly choked by plastic waste, with 60 tonnes generated every day and only 10 per cent of them recycled.

VietNamNet Bridge - France, the US, Canada and Scotland have said no to plastic disposable cups, but they  are still used widely in Vietnam despite warnings about the existence of carcinogens.

VietNamNet Bridge - Plastic waste accounts for 50-80 percent of ocean waste, and more than 80 percent of plastics waste originates from the mainland, while the rest is discharged directly in the sea.

A survey found that plastic waste, including domestic land litter and marine waste, is polluting the marine environment.   

 Plastic waste is building up in the supposedly pristine wilderness of the Norwegian Arctic, scientists say.

 The UK's recycling industry says it doesn't know how to cope with a Chinese ban on imports of plastic waste.

 Life in the seas risks irreparable damage from a rising tide of plastic waste, the UN oceans chief has warned.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam is among five countries in the world with the most plastic waste discarded into the ocean.