From production to "green" consumption

People choose to buy clean agricultural products at a supermarket in Bien Hoa City

In the context of the Covid-19 epidemic, consumers are increasingly interested in smart and sustainable consumption, as well as environmentally friendly products and services right from the stage of production, consumption and use of products.

Step by step in "greening" production

In order to improve competitiveness and business efficiency, many enterprises in the province have been actively improving equipment, using materials and human resources in the direction of saving and sustainability, focusing on modern and sustainable production technology ...

Mr. Nguyen Van Tue, Director of Minh Dung Reishi Mushroom Production and Service Co., Ltd. (Long Khanh City) shared that the application of technology to production is an inevitable trend in the current competitive and integration context. The company always actively applies science and technology to production such as modern drying technology, mushroom irrigation system by automation process, pre-programming ... towards a closed and safe production process.

According to many businesses, in fact, it’s not easy for producing meet the needs of green and clean consumption because of the high production cost, difficulties in raw materials, some types of natural products often have less eye-catching designs than similar products produced in a mass style ...

Therefore, there should be more policies and programs to support and encourage local businesses, especially small and medium-sized enterprises in the locality to develop more environmentally friendly production models, beneficial to consumers.

Rekindle "green" business trends.

In recent years, many supermarkets, shopping malls, shops and cafes have had ideas and programs to promote green and environmentally friendly consumption such as: gradually switching to using friendly packaging products, banana leaves with the environment instead of plastic cups, ordinary plastic bags; using all kinds of bamboo suction, grass straws instead of plastic straws ...

According to Mr. Vu Thanh Tan, representative of the communication department of BigC supermarket system, in the last years, BigC supermarket system in whole the country in general and in Dong Nai in particular have always actively prvented plastic waste with many practical actions such as: deploying business of non-profit used bags, piloting the use of biodegradable plastic bags made from corn flour and potatoes; stop trading plastic straws... BigC also supports free cartons for goods to customers. In addition, BigC applies the business of eco-friendly banana leaves wrapping products to vegetable products (turkey, green asparagus, cilantro, basil, fish lettuce, ham, herbs, dinghies, coriander) ...

Similarly, Mr. Nguyen Le Cao Tuan, Director of Dong Nai Lotte Mart said that Dong Nai Lotte Mart still deploys several areas with self-destructing food bags, eco-friendly boxes and trays made of bagasse for food keeping …..

Ms. Nguyen Ngoc Bao Tran, representative of La Casa Café (Vo Thi Sau Street, Bien Hoa City): "From the beginning, La Casa has focused on green consumption such as: using glass glasses, glass jars, using paper straws, grass straws, paper cups to store hot drinks ... This both contributes to protect the environment and create highlight for the café. In general, most of customers support this".

Mr. Pham Gia Hai, Chairman of Dong Nai Standards and Consumer Protection Association said that responsibile business and sustainable consumption are shown through trends in using environmentally friendly or recyclable products. At the same time, it is also shown in focusing on the quality and utilities of products but also towards the traceability of products, raising awareness about safety, towards the effective and economical use of natural resources ...

Most recently, the Provincial People's Committee has just issued a plan to implement sustainable production and consumption tasks in industry in the province in 2021. In particular, deploying support to build technical infrastructure for sustainable production and consumption, cleaner production in the province ...

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