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Story 14 Aug, 2020

Extended Producer Responsibility: an approach to improving solid waste management in Viet Nam

On June 25 2020, 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 in collaboration with Packaging Recycling Organization Viet Nam (PRO Vietnam) and the Department of Legal Affairs (DLA) of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) organized a workshop 鈥淓xtended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Legal Framework 鈥 Shaping a Packaging Sector towards Circular Economy in Viet Nam鈥 in Hoi An, Quang Nam Province. With the participation of more than 100 participants from National Assembly, MONRE, MARD, universities, businesses, and NGOs, the focus was on the legal framework for EPR in revision of the 2014 Law on Environmental Protection (LEP).

Viet Nam faces huge pressures from solid waste as infrastructure and management cannot keep up with the growing volumes of waste, which has doubled in less than 15 years. Large amount of waste is uncollected with levels of uncollected waste ranging from 15% in urban areas to 45-60% in rural areas[1].

EPR is an approach whereby the producer鈥檚 responsibility for a product extends to the waste stage of the item. It involves producers taking responsibility for the management of products after they have become waste, including the collection, pre-treatment, preparation for reuse, recovery, or final disposal[2].

EPR reduces the cost of managing end-of-life products by reducing disposal, increasing recycling, and improving product design. EPR is a way for companies to take responsibility for recycling either by financing and/or by taking over the operational aspects from local government. This is critical in Viet Nam where government covers 80% of the cost of solid waste management, an unaffordable subsidy[3].

DLA is responsible for developing an EPR strategy in Viet Nam including formation of an EPR National Platform to facilitate EPR schemes. 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 have been invited to join the platform.

The draft LEP identifies five groups of products subject to EPR include batteries and accumulators, electric and electronic devices, tires, lubricants, and packages. Mandatory recycling rates and projected financial contribution rates over a 3-year period will be proposed by the inter-sectoral committee and approved by the MONRE Minister.

Producers can participate in EPR either individually or collectively under the Product/Packaging Responsibility Organization (PRO) or the Vietnam Environmental Protection Fund (VEPF). To avoid free-riding, Producers (and importers) who do not adopt EPR are subject to fines.

To support waste separation and increase recycling, the draft LEP proposes regulations such as volume-based waste fees by using different waste bags for three types of waste (organic, recyclable, other); and deposit and return schemes.

Regarding hard-to-recycle or hazardous waste such pesticides, chewing gum, napkins, tobacco, and single-use plastics, producers and importers have to pay the VEPF to handle collecting and treatment. This funding will be allocated by MONRE to local authorities. VEPF will be responsible for monitoring implementation while producers will report to MONRE the quantity and volume of products sold on the market.

At the workshop, 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 signed a MOU with PRO Viet Nam to jointly design and implement pilot projects for circular economy and support the EPR National Platform. PRO Vietnam, established in June 2019, is a coalition of 13 leading companies from the consumer goods and packaging industry that aims to contribute to a clean, green and beautiful Vietnam by driving the circular economy and making recycling of packaging more accessible and sustainable.


[1] Ibid.; Th么ng b谩o c峄 V膬n ph貌ng Ch铆nh ph峄: K岷縯 lu岷璶 c峄 Th峄 t瓢峄沶g Ch铆nh ph峄 Nguy峄卬 Xu芒n Ph煤c t岷 H峄檌 ngh峄 tr峄眂 tuy岷縩 to脿n qu峄慶 v峄 t膬ng c瓢峄漬g ki峄僲 so谩t 么 nhi峄卪 v脿 b岷 v峄 m么i tr瓢峄漬g (268a/TB-VPCP, 31 August 2016).

[2] UNEP. Draft practical manual on Extended Producer Responsibility.1鈥19 (2019)

[3] Nguyen Hoang Phuong, EPR workshop presentation