Fact Sheet

MWRP Vietnam: Reducing Mismanaged Plastic Waste By Organizing Independent Waste collectors

Independent waste collectors are entrepreneurs who play a key role in addressing limitations of the government-run solid waste management system in Ho Chi Minh City (population: about 13 million); they collect recyclables from narrowly built, otherwise inaccessible neighborhoods and minimize the volume of recyclable waste going to landfills. Read More

MWRP Vietnam: Building a Green City through Women-Led Plastic Recycling

Waste recycling is a key focus for the coastal city of Da Nang, Vietnam’s fifth largest city with a population of over 1.2 million. City authorities and residents have committed to making Da Nang a “green city,” as outlined in the city’s solid waste management strategy “Towards 2030. Read More

Municipal Waste Recycling Program (MWRP) – Vietnam Country Profile

The global crisis of ocean plastic pollution—each year eight million metric tons of plastic pour into the ocean— has local origins in poor waste management in cities of the developing world. Vietnam is the world’s fourth largest plastic polluter1 to the marine environment, contributing approximately 730,000 metric tons annually. Read More

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Equality in Waste Management and Recycling: Latin America and the Caribbean Landscape

Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have some of the fastest-growing cities in the world – with accompanying rapidly increasing rates of waste generation. Read More

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Equality in Waste Management and Recycling: Global Landscape

The economic and environmental dangers of ocean plastic pollution require immediate global interventions that address mismanaged plastic waste at its source: on land. Read More

MWRP Vietnam: Partnerships for Clean Regional Waterways

Plastics pollution is a serious issue along highly populated rivers and estuaries in Nam Dinh Province, home to 2.15 million people. Mismanaged plastic waste contributes to an increase in ocean plastics pollution and affects the livelihoods of those living along waterways in the province. Read More

MWRP Vietnam: Reducing Ocean Plastics Pollution in Ha Long Bay

Gaps in Ha Long City’s existing solid waste management system and direct disposal of uncollected waste into the ocean are contributing to plastics pollution in Ha Long Bay, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Read More

MWRP Sri Lanka: A Sustainable, Community-Based Solid Waste Management System

Municipalities in Sri Lanka are tasked with managing solid waste via collection and haulage to landfills. Read More

MWRP Sri Lanka: Strengthening Plastic Waste Management in Fast-Growing Urban Areas

Recent scientific research shows that Sri Lanka contributes as much as 640,000 metric tons of plastic waste to our oceans annually, making it the world’s fifth largest polluter1 by total mass of mismanaged plastic debris. The challenge is particularly acute in urban and peri-urban areas like Dehiwala, a poor but fast-growing area with a quarter of a million people located next to the capital city of Colombo. Read More

MWRP: Sharing Zero Waste Model Across Southeast Asia – From Philippines to Vietnam and Indonesia

According to the Government of Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry, a significant percentage of solid waste in Indonesia is unmanaged. Only 25% of solid waste is collected by centralized service providers, but this waste is not segregated and therefore is transported as mixed waste to landfills. In Vietnam, a rapid rise in tourism in Cam Thanh commune in Hoi An and the Cham Islands has led to mounting solid waste management challenges that also require more effective handling of large and growing quantities of waste. Read More