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A summary of Hanoi's household waste separation rules and phased plastic restrictions from 2025 to 2031, with the English policy brief available to download.

GreenU summarises The Circulate Initiative's "Breaking the Bottleneck" report on Advance Market Commitments (AMC) for recycled plastic procurement.

Vietnam's EPR recycling-cost norm (Fs) and the international Responsible Sourcing cost are two costs of a different nature that add up rather than replace each other — plastic packaging producers should keep the two budget lines separate.

New research from The Circulate Initiative quantifies the cost of responsible sourcing for recycled plastics through two case studies in India and Kenya: an extra USD 40-50 per tonne.

A Go Circular (GIZ) report analyses 116 domestic and international financial institutions able to fund or invest in the circular economy in Viet Nam.

Decree 110/2026/ND-CP, issued 1 April 2026, moves EPR rules into a dedicated instrument, repealing Chapter VI and Appendices XXII-XXIII of Decree 08.

On 17 March 2026 at the Green One UN House, GPAP and NPAP launched the Plastic Pollution - Biodiversity Assessment, with support from GreenU.

A July 2025 resource from the Sustainable Packaging Coalition examines where compostable packaging and EPR policy intersect across US states.

Mandatory recycling rates and specifications still fall short of practice. This piece proposes a full reform of EPR law and institutions in Viet Nam.

The Ministry of Finance proposes folding packaging waste duties into tax. With over 400 EPR schemes worldwide, there is no precedent for such a move.

From Directive 2005/32/EC to the ESPR 2024, the EU is setting a global benchmark for sustainable products, with direct effects on Vietnamese exports.