Swiss Partners
Institute for Development, Environment and Energy (IDE-E), Reinach
www.ide-e.org
Caroline Huwiler
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Swiss Contribution
IDE-E and its Swiss partners have many years of experience in development cooperation, renewable energy and spatial planning, as well as waste management and recycling.
Description
The rise of Vietnamese land-based marine litter is due to a combination of rising consumption and a lack of local capacity to effectively deal with steadily increasing amounts of litter.
The “Phu Yen for Zero Waste” Project is aimed to support the provincial efforts to drastically reduce and effectively manage solid waste. More specifically, its goal is to pave the way for the reduction and progressive elimination of single-use plastics in Phu Yen, to improve the cost-effectiveness, coverage and quality of waste collection in Tuy Hoa City, and to develop viable recycling solutions, including composting and animal feed production from organic waste.
Results
Many measures were demonstrated in this project, such as the collection of organic waste, the proof of concept for the production of high-quality compost, the local composting of organic waste from hotels, the reduction of single-use plastic, the collection and recycling of plastic waste, and the production and distribution of a locally produced organic dishwashing/cleaning detergent.
Impacts
Various activities such as local composting of organic waste at some of the hotels, reducing disposable plastic bags, producing and distributing bags made from old fishing nets, and organic dishwashing/cleaning detergent are beginning to be established and are already ongoing.
As part of this project, 61 tons of CO2 have been reduced, > 9 tons of waste have been collected and recycled each month, and CHF 4’770.- in income has been generated so far. Sixteen people have been trained, and eight new jobs have been created to date. A total of around 500 people benefit from this project.