Thousands of people in Ho Chi Minh City participated in a festival
on September 15, which aims to popularise the use of
environmentally-friendly bags.
Themed “Green
bags for green environment”, the festival included a series of
activities to raise people’s awareness of the need to stop using nylon
bags.
An exhibition showcased various types of shopping bags instead of
nylon ones, while visitors can receive gifts when they hand in nylon
bags.
There were also volunteers who taught visitors how to make bags from used paper.
Ho Chi Minh City is among Vietnam’s leading localities in
reducing nylon bag use and controlling environmental pollution caused by
nylon bags.
As of 2012, 80 percent of local
supermarkets reduced the use of nylon bags by replacing them with those
made from environmentally-friendly materials.-VNA