Phase II of Earth Day Compostable (EDC) campaign that aims to minimize plastic bags and replace with biological compostable bags was continued to be nationally expanded.
Throughout 3 days of Phase II of EDC Campaign, 80 tons of plastic bags were reduced and 5 million AnEco corn starch bags were used as an alternative.
ty le keo nha cai hom nay campaign “Earth Day Compostable” (EDC), Phase II took place on 3 days, on 20, 21 and 22 April 2019
ty le keo nha cai hom nay Phase II of EDC Campaign was joined by dozens of retailers, enterprises, urban areas and organizations, including supermarket chains such as Lotte, Big C, AEON Mall, Intimex, L’s place, Unik Mart, Seika, Teekiu, V+ Hoa Binh and Nam An (HCM); Saint Honore restaurant chain, Fargreen sustainable green farming community; NGOs, such as Clean & Green and MCD; Ecopark ecological urban areas, Ciputra urban area. Moreover, it was also in cooperation of “Challenges to Change” campaign launched by Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City; and ty le keo nha cai hom nay Earth Day 2019 event “For a Zero-waste World” organized by Center for Environment and Community Research (CECR) and People’s Committee of Hoan Kiem District on 20 April 2019 in Hanoi. Phase II of EDC Campaign was initiated in over 400 places.
Customers uses AnEco 100% compostable bags at Big C Supermarket
AnEco corn starch bags are used for vegetable in ty le keo nha cai hom nay supermarket
In order to accomplish these goals, Earth Day Compostable campaign continued to deploy two main activities successfully carried out in Phase I. Firstly: guiding consumers and customers to minimize plastic bags if unnecessary, arranging to optimize ty le keo nha cai hom nay number of goods stored in a bag. Secondly: using biological 100% compostable bags instead of plastic bags when it is absolutely necessary. As its name revealed, biological 100% compostable products will be easily decomposed into CO2, water and organic humus within six months to a year, under natural landfilling or industrial composting conditions, creating no microplastics that affect human health and ty le keo nha cai hom nay living environment.
Customers experienced AnEco corn starch bags
ty le keo nha cai hom nay corn starch bag used in Earth Day Compostable Campaign was AnEco bag – ty le keo nha cai hom nay first biological 100% compostable product successfully made by a Vietnamese manufacturer, released at ty le keo nha cai hom nay end of 2015 by An Phat Holdings. Before being introduced into Vietnamese market in late of 2018, AnEco bag had been exported to many developed countries in ty le keo nha cai hom nay world such as Japan, Germany, France, USA,…
Phase I of EDC Campaign took place on 28 – 30 March 2019 as an event to support Earth Hour. During this period, 1.2 million plastic bags were reduced, 500 thousand of turns of users were directly experience these products, 2 million people were received ty le keo nha cai hom nay campaign information as well as actively embraced and shared it.
AnEco corn starch bags are used to serve customers in Saint Honore restaurant chain
Outstandingly, on 10 April 2019, ty le keo nha cai hom nay football star Quang Hai was officially become an environmental protection ambassador for ty le keo nha cai hom nay AnEco brand. His image is expected to inspire ty le keo nha cai hom nay young generation to gain awareness of and take practical action to protect ty le keo nha cai hom nay living environment.
Ms. Nguyen Le Hang, Deputy General Director of An Phat Holdings shared, “After Phase I’s successful implementation, there were many actively responses of consumers as well as retail chains, organizations. Especially, we could see positive changes in ty le keo nha cai hom nay community awareness about reducing plastic waste. This is ty le keo nha cai hom nay reason why we decided to scale up Phase II of Earth Day Compostable Campaign nationwide. Encouraging more partners to join ty le keo nha cai hom nay Campaign is an obvious showing ty le keo nha cai hom nay responsible participation of enterprises, organizations and Vietnamese community in reducing plastic waste in particular, and protecting ty le keo nha cai hom nay environment in general. We strongly believe that positive changes will be made in ty le keo nha cai hom nay society for a truly clean and green living environment. Moreover, An Phat Holdings is proud to support ty le keo nha cai hom nay government of Vietnam, enterprises and ty le keo nha cai hom nay community in actualizing these meaningful efforts.”
