Sustainable Production and Consumption

Amid increasing challenges related to waste management and environmental protection in the cocoa industry, a Vietnamese company has taken the lead in producing biochar from discarded cocoa pods.

Coffee is sensitive to sun, oxygen, and humidity, needing good packaging. Siegwerk and DG Press created a recyclable mono-PE coffee bag with enhanced oxygen barriers, potentially benefiting Vietnam’s coffee packaging industry.

Professors at Pennsylvania State University have developed packaging from cellulose and starch – sustainable materials that decompose naturally, reducing environmental pollution.

Waste2wear revolves around recycling plastic waste into textile products, ensuring a circular environment where consumers can verify the authenticity of sustainable choices.

The world is increasingly aware of the importance of maximizing resource efficiency and transitioning to a circular economy. Applying circular economy principles throughout its value chain, ThaiBev, ASEAN’s largest food and beverage leader, has developed a closed-loop packaging collection system to create new post-consumer recycling opportunities.

When the Vietnamese market hardly talked about “renewable energy”, there was a group of engineers working together to research and produce solar kits, charging control devices, power converters… used for areas without grid electricity, opening up the first very small independent (offgrid) solar power market. That’s a story from 2008-2009, 14-15 years ago…

In the wood processing process, there is always scrap at almost every stage from exploitation to processing. Reusing scrap will help businesses increase profits.

The industrial sector is one of the important sectors of the economy, with growing demand. In Vietnam, the Industrial Park Management Board has increasingly high regulations on environmental protection standards. Therefore, businesses have been innovating technology to reduce environmental pollution and increase production value, aiming for sustainable development.

The production chain of the construction materials and real estate industry ranks in the top three industries that emit greenhouse gases. Saint-Gobain Vietnam is effectively implementing solutions to reduce negative impacts on the environment.

One of the urgent problems needs to be resolved immediately. It is the problem of waste and plastic waste in each country. Understanding this problem, Duy Tan Recycled Plastic Company (Duy Tan Recycle) has invested and developed a plastic recycling production process throughout the market. The goal is not only quality products but also environmental friendliness and minimizing environmental pollution.

In recent years, La Vie has become known as a typical beverage brand in sustainable development. Thanks to environmental initiatives applied to product packaging and efforts to protect water resources, La Vie is increasingly becoming a beverage brand loved by many customers.

Glassia is a social enterprise providing reusable glass bottled water, completely eliminating plastic from the water consumption value chain, to create plastic-free and circular bottled water products and services locally. The first Glassia facility was tested in Da Nang and began operations in March 2021.