Vietnam supermarkets turn to banana leaves to wrap vegetables

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Lotte Mart, one of the three biggest supermarket chains in Vietnam, is using banana leaves instead of plastic bags to wrap its vegetables.PHOTO: LOTTE MART VIETNAM / FACEBOOK
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APR 3, 2019, 1:56 PM SGT
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HANOI (DPA) - Several supermarkets in Vietnam have joined a campaign to use non-plastic products to wrap vegetables in a bid to protect the environment, state media reported on Wednesday (April 3).

The three biggest supermarket chains in Vietnam - Lotte Mart, Saigon Co-op in Ho Chi Minh City and Big C in Hanoi - have started using banana leaves instead of plastic bags to wrap vegetables, the online newspaper Vnexpress reported.

Shoppers at a Lotte Mart outlet in Ho Chi Minh City were recently surprised to see scallions, okra and other vegetables wrapped in banana leaves, the newspaper reported, adding that the company will expand the use of banana leaves to the entire chain in the country later this year, following a trial period in the southern city.

The measure is part of an effort to switch to environmentally friendly products, not just for vegetables but also for fresh meat, the newspaper said.

The Ho Chi Minh City Lotte Mart was also selling paper straws and food boxes made from sugarcane waste, while eggs were contained in paper packages instead of plastic boxes.

Big C is offering shoppers completely biodegradable bags made with corn powder.

Vietnam generates about 2,500 tonnes of plastic waste a day, according to official figures. The country ranks fourth globally for the amount of plastic waste dumped into the ocean, according to the United Nations Environment Programme.



https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/s...-to-use-banana-leaves-instead-of-plastic-bags

 

[Viet]

Reported by a Singapore news outlet.
As a way to reduce plastic use.
Plastic waste imports to VN will be banned in the near future.

@Mista

Also available
drinking straw by wide grass

 

[313ghazi]

Great initiative.

 

[Path-Finder]

excellent move, plastic is poisoning the earth.

 

[Pepsi Cola]

cute.

 

[Meliodas]

Reported by a Singapore news outlet.
As a way to reduce plastic use.
Plastic waste imports to VN will be banned in the near future.

@Mista

Also available
drinking straw by wide grass

Our outlets should get inspiration from here

 

[Placemat]

I am from Chennai. A year ago when I visited to my pleasant surprise... no ship will give you a plastic bag to carry your bought items. You have to bring them home yourself . It was irritating the first couple times but everyone seems to have gotten used to it and carrying their own bags. Some shops give empty carton if available.but good on the whole.

 

[waz]

Lotte Mart, one of the three biggest supermarket chains in Vietnam, is using banana leaves instead of plastic bags to wrap its vegetables.PHOTO: LOTTE MART VIETNAM / FACEBOOK
PUBLISHED

APR 3, 2019, 1:56 PM SGT
FACEBOOKTWITTERWHATSAPP


HANOI (DPA) - Several supermarkets in Vietnam have joined a campaign to use non-plastic products to wrap vegetables in a bid to protect the environment, state media reported on Wednesday (April 3).

The three biggest supermarket chains in Vietnam - Lotte Mart, Saigon Co-op in Ho Chi Minh City and Big C in Hanoi - have started using banana leaves instead of plastic bags to wrap vegetables, the online newspaper Vnexpress reported.

Shoppers at a Lotte Mart outlet in Ho Chi Minh City were recently surprised to see scallions, okra and other vegetables wrapped in banana leaves, the newspaper reported, adding that the company will expand the use of banana leaves to the entire chain in the country later this year, following a trial period in the southern city.

The measure is part of an effort to switch to environmentally friendly products, not just for vegetables but also for fresh meat, the newspaper said.

The Ho Chi Minh City Lotte Mart was also selling paper straws and food boxes made from sugarcane waste, while eggs were contained in paper packages instead of plastic boxes.

Big C is offering shoppers completely biodegradable bags made with corn powder.

Vietnam generates about 2,500 tonnes of plastic waste a day, according to official figures. The country ranks fourth globally for the amount of plastic waste dumped into the ocean, according to the United Nations Environment Programme.



https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/s...-to-use-banana-leaves-instead-of-plastic-bags

Good move guys! Excellent.

 

[Dubious]

Awesome way to reduce plastic use!

 

[Viet]

Our outlets should get inspiration from here

In tropical countries as Vietnam, Philippines or so, banana leaves are in abundance. You can use banana leaf to wrap cooked meals too. Also suitable for soldiers: such meals have a service life of a month or so

 

[Galactic Penguin SST]

Commentary


It is the eternal end of a cycle, as described in Indian philosophy, and its restart. After spectacle frames, haircut, bio-food, etc. all set back to the 1960s.

Why reinventing the wheel, as throughout the Sinosphere, and not only in South East Asia, edibles used to be wrapped with leaves. As late as during the 1980s in China, that is before Deng Xiao Ping's westernization and plastic waste culture, even when going to buy a chunk of pork meat to the Chợ, they simply attached it with a string made of bamboo, while more fragile tofu and bean curds were wrapped with bamboo leaves.

Now you understand all the meaning of Sinosphere, without external European nonsensical cultural meddlings.

From North Korea to Cambodia, from Tajikistan to Japan!

▲ 2. The Sinosphere or the Schengen Area of East Asians.

 

[Viet]

Good move guys! Excellent.

Awesome way to reduce plastic use!

one plastic bag less, one tree more

 

[Dubious]

one plastic bag less, one tree more

Just plant more trees...eat the bananas use the laves

 

[Viva_Viet]

Commentary


It is the eternal end of a cycle, as described in Indian philosophy, and its restart. After spectacle frames, haircut, bio-food, etc. all set back to the 1960s.

Why reinventing the wheel, as throughout the Sinosphere, and not only in South East Asia, edibles used to be wrapped with leaves. As late as during the 1980s in China, that is before Deng Xiao Ping's westernization and plastic waste culture, even when going to buy a chunk of pork meat to the Chợ, they simply attached it with a string made of bamboo, while more fragile tofu and bean curds were wrapped with bamboo leaves.

Now you understand all the meaning of Sinosphere, without external European nonsensical cultural meddlings.

From North Korea to Cambodia, from Tajikistan to Japan!

▲ 2. The Sinosphere or the Schengen Area of East Asians.

Han Cnese were just barbarian tribes living in barren lands and desert and the main " tree" on your desert is Cactus and we all know Cactus have almost No leaf.

So,Han barbarian stealing leaf wrapping skill from Baiyue ppl living in South CN now.

 

[艹艹艹]

Han Cnese were just barbarian tribes living in barren lands and desert and the main " tree" on your desert is Cactus and we all know Cactus have almost No leaf.

So,Han barbarian stealing leaf wrapping skill from Baiyue ppl living in South CN now.

Your brain needs to be treated with banana leaves