The Environmental Protection Law 2020 introduces a new perspective on solid waste management as polluter-pays principle, reflected in policy instruments such as extended producer responsibility (EPR), waste charge by volume.
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According to Phan Tuan Hung, director of the Legal Department under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the contribution fee for the collection, recycling and treatment of hazardous waste is mandatory for the purpose of encouraging businesses to adjust their product design as well as their production and business methods toward an environmentally beneficial direction.
2022 marks the first year the revised Law on Environmental Protection (LEP) 2020 came into effect, and also the first year Vietnam has lots of drastic actions to realise its commitments to bring net emissions to zero at COP26.
Vietnamese businesses has prepared for Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) implementation very early, even before when the Law on Environmental Protection 2020 was approved.
