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Thanh Tuyen Company in Quang Ninh province has been one of the biggest companies in Vietnam that abandoned the fired brick production and made investment for advanced automatic production line of NFB that imported from developed countries. The Company has produced NFBs using ash and slag generated from the Dong Trieu Power Plant and Mao Khe Power Plant in Quang Ninh province as the input materials.

The Pou Chen’s Green World Kindergarten, the project uses recycled CDW (crushed concrete, bricks) from demolished building works in the locality as ground materials for the playing field. One local company who signed the contract for treatment of CDW with the owners of demolished buildings in the locality has collected the CDW from demolished buildings, transported the recyclable materials (concrete, bricks) to the recycling site for crushing, and then sold the crushed CDW to be used as backfilling materials to the project contractor at the reasonable price. This practice helps to ensure that the recycled CDW can be reintroduced at their highest value which reduce the demand for new primary materials.

Lam Son Sugar Joint Stock Corporation (Lasuco) is the leading sugar producer in Vietnam and is also one of the leaders in that country’s slow shift toward a market-driven economy. Lasuco has installed a bagasse-fired power generation system with a capacity of 33.5 megawatts (MW) in its sugar production line which can generate more than 20 MW of electricity at the peak of the sugarcane crushing season

Vietnam is one of the five Asian countries to benefit from the “Ocean Plastic Turned into an Opportunity in Circular Economy” (OPTOCE) project, apart from China, India, Myanmar and Thailand. Plastic waste is a fossil fuel and contains even more energy than coal. If plastic waste can be used to partially replace coal in the production process, this is an opportunity for both relevant parties to benefit, contributing to addressing the threat from plastic and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

This case study typically describes the transition in phase 1 (redesign) of circular economy, in which the nature-based alternatives such as Ong Hut Co wild grass straws can replace plastic straws in the market