Japanese, Vietnamese volunteers clean Ho Chi Minh City downtown every weekend
Expat Life 14:27 09/04/2025Every Sunday morning, some 40 volunteers, including both Japanese and Vietnamese, gather in front of the Saigon Central Post Office to begin their regular park clean-up activity in downtown Ho Chi Minh City.
English-labeled bins in Vietnam spark waste sorting confusion
Expat Life 13:14 02/01/2025In certain public areas, bins are esthetically pleasing but only have instructions in English
Trash litters southern Vietnam expy post-Tet travel
Vietnam News 14:16 23/02/2024Trash and foul odors blanket large stretches of a major freeway in Vietnam following the Lunar New Year travel season
Trash fills beaches in Vietnamese province ahead of summer tourist season
Vietnam News 21:00 20/03/2022Many beaches in Ha Tinh Province are still covered in trash and show no signs of post-pandemic recovery
Ocean of trash washes up on central Vietnam beaches
Vietnam News 16:24 01/01/2022The piles of trash have roughly exceeded 200 metric tons
Trash abounds on Saigon streets
Vietnam News 15:50 06/05/2021Indiscriminate dumping is a growing epidemic across the city
Volunteers collect garbage at Vietnam founding fathers’ worshipping event despite negative comments
Travel 10:00 23/04/2021A number of participants in the anniversary, however, considered the volunteers’ good deeds as some gimmicks to attract public attention
Major streets of Hanoi strewn with trash after sanitation worker strike
Vietnam News 16:03 09/12/2020Sanitation service in the locale has been defunct over the last few days
Vietnam’s ‘pearl island’ Phu Quoc faces severe trash crisis
In-Depth 11:32 04/09/2020Vietnam releases 1.9 metric tons of plastic waste into the environment annually and only 27 percent of this gets recycled
Video shows woman dumping garbage on Vietnam beach, taunting onlooker
Vietnam News 12:00 02/07/2020When threatened that her action would be reported to local authorities, she answered, ‘Let’s see what they can do’
US social-ecologist reflects on destruction of world’s oceans at Saigon film screening, panel discussion
Travel 16:31 13/12/2019‘Trashed’ is an eye-opening documentary that exposes viewers to the effects of ocean pollution by sharing stories from coastal dwellers around the world
Trash piles up in Vietnam’s Hoi An as residents block access to major landfill
Vietnam News 10:00 12/10/2019Towering mountains of trash at the Cam Ha garbage dump were meters taller that the walls that separated the landfill from its surroundings
