With rapid economic growth and urbanization, Vietnam has recognized the potential of waste-to-energy (WtE) technologies as a sustainable solution to address waste management issues and meet its growing energy demand. B&Company analyzed to explore the current state of the WtE market in Vietnam, covering emerging trends, notable projects with an emphasis on Japanese investment, and the future outlook for the sector

Vietnam has a very high demand for plastic, using about 3.9 million tons of PET, LDPE, HDPE, and PP plastics per year[1], leading to a large amount of disposal. However, only a few amounts have been recycled. As shown in Figure 1, the number of recycled plastic waste in some ASEAN countries in general, and Vietnam in particular is still limited.

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