Power outages and sweltering heat in Vietnam, people struggling to cope

Re:Power outages and sweltering heat in Vietnam, people stru... by cornfutes on Monday June 05, 2023 @01:29AM (#36192702)

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

Sure, developing countries don't have the infrastructure to recycle. The point of criticism here is reduce.

Datapoint: I'm vietnamese and think the use of plastic is unnecessary. It doesn't take much education to understand that plastic is bad, especially when the government has no hesititation to govern people's thought.

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Re:Power outages and sweltering heat in Vietnam, people stru... by latchkey on Monday June 05, 2023 @02:06AM (#36192949)

With groups like Otosaigon [1], you'd think that would be enough education to stop doing stupid shit [2], but I think the problem runs deeper than that.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/otosaigon.news

[2] https://www.facebook.com/groups/otosaigon.news/posts/1965346...

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Re:Power outages and sweltering heat in Vietnam, people stru... by LeeroyWasHere on Monday June 05, 2023 @07:51AM (#36195025)

Lazada and Shopee probably contribute a chunk of the plastic waste.

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Re:Power outages and sweltering heat in Vietnam, people stru... by latchkey on Monday June 05, 2023 @10:32AM (#36196692)

So does Amazon, on a more epic scale. Your point?

The real contribution to plastic waste in Vietnam, is just 99% of Vietnamese.

Anyone can set up a shop anywhere in Vietnam and they all hand out insane amounts of plastic.

Even the charity work I did there to help feed people amounted to filling up plastic bags to hand out.

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