Relaunching "One second of action, Environmental protection" program at MM Mega Market in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City

Following the success of the "One second of action, Environmental protection" program in previous years, Tetra Pak - a provider of food processing and packaging solutions from Sweden - coordinated with MM Mega Market (“MM”) launches a program to collect used beverage cartons at MM Mega Market stores in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. This is the third year the program has been organized with the goal of raising consumer awareness about collecting used beverage cartons, as well as promoting the collection of used beverage cartons in the community.

Specifically, the program is held at four MM stores, including MM Mega Market Hoang Mai, MM Mega Market Thang Long, MM Mega Market An Phu and MM Mega Market Hiep Phu. Taking place for 8 days (from November 3 to November 10, 2023), the program offers customers attractive activities such as visiting and taking photos to check-in at the display area of products made from recycled materials, exchange used beverage cartons to receive meaningful gifts from the program, participate in mini games with the theme of collection and recycling... It is expected that there will be about 5,000 gifts Donations are given out throughout the program.

 

All used beverage cartons, after being collected at the program, will be transferred to Dong Tien Paper factory in Binh Duong to be recycled into useful products such as cardboard, cartons, and notebooks. sheets, roofing sheets and ecological flat sheets... In particular, these recycled products will all be present at the show's display area for customers to visit and experience.

 

Ms. Luong Thanh Thu, Sustainability manager at Tetra Pak Vietnam JSC shared: "Collecting and recycling used beverage carton is one of Tetra Pak Vietnam's important sustainability strategies. We are always actively implementing activities to realize our commitment to building a circular economy with low carbon emissions. Through cooperation activities with retail chains such as MM Mega Market, we hope to encourage the habit of collecting used beverage carton in the community, while helping consumers access collection points, collect more easily and conveniently, thereby improving the collection and recycling rate of used beverage carton in Vietnam."

 

“We have had three years of cooperation with Tetra Pak to implement a used beverage carton collection program in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. We appreciate this model of Tetra Pak, which helps promote a green lifestyle for MM's customer community. This is also one of the added values we bring to customers, not only the opportunity to shop for quality products at the MM Mega Market supermarket system but also to enhance their experience with meaningful activities on environmental protection, collection and classification of waste at source. We expect to continue expanding this meaningful model in the future.” Ms. Nguyen Thi My Hung, Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility Department of MM Mega Market Vietnam said.

 

Since 2020, Tetra Pak has coordinated with MM Mega Market to install fixed collection bins specifically for used beverage carton at 8 MM stores in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh, and at the same time implement communication programs. Raise awareness to call for the participation of consumers. Up to now, MM Mega Market locations are collecting an average of more than 70,000 used beverage cartons each year. In addition to MM Mega Market, Tetra Pak also cooperates with other large retailers such as AEONMALL, apartments, schools, etc. to constantly expand the used beverage carton collection network, thereby helping people easily access close to the network of collection points. To date, Tetra Pak has more than 100 collection points in the community in big cities such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and many other provinces and cities across the country. 

 

More information about list of Tetra Pak used beverage carton collection locations at www.taichevohopgiay.com.