Extended Producer Responsibility is a new policy approach to deal with wastes, promote recycling and help the Government to achieve its environmental goals.Phan Tuấn Hùng, director of the National Extended Producer Responsibility Council Office, said if properly and fully implemented EPR would ensure the circulation of resources between the input and waste stages in the production process and help achieve the goal of no emissions.This is the first year of EPR implementation in Việt Nam, and the hope is to create a change in the process of promoting the circular economy.Local manufacturers and importers have embraced EPR quite early.In 2021 nine enterprises, TH Group, Coca-Cola, FrieslandCampina, La Vie, Nestle, Nutifood, Suntory PepsiCo, Tetra Pak, and Universal Robina Corporation established the Packaging Recycling Organisation Việt Nam.Its mission is to develop a strong packaging collection and recycling eco-system that helps increase recycling rates and minimise the rate of packaging discharged into the environment.It has helped raise consumer awareness about recycling and waste classification and strengthen the existing packaging collection eco-system and supported the recycling programmes of treatment plants and factories that produce recycled materials.Manufacturers and importers of six groups of products and packaging - tires and tubes, batteries and accumulators, lubricants, packaged products (such as food, cosmetics, drugs, fertilizers, animal feed, veterinary drugs, cement, detergents and preparations for household, agricultural and medical use), electricity and electronics, and vehicles -- are responsible for recycling products and packaging based on the mandatory recycling rate and recycling specifications.Their deadlines are staggered between 2024 and 2027.Manufacturers and importers of six other groups of products and packaging ­­- plant protection drugs, disposable batteries, nappies, sanitary napkins, disposable wet wipes, chewing gum, cigarettes, and certain products and goods containing synthetic plastic ingredients - have been paying the fund for recycling since 2022. (ICE HO CHI MINH CITY)

Fonte notizia: Vietnam News