Environment

Vietnam's plastic waste turns into stylish designer furniture

Ho Chi Minh, Oct 20 (EFE/EPA).-A small business in Vietnam is taking plastic waste pollution and turning it into furniture ranging from elegant pieces of design to social housing.(Camera: ERIC SAN JUAN)SHOT LIST: THE WORKSHOP AND WORKERS OF "PLASTIC PEOPLE". SOUND BITES: NANO MORANTE (ON THE LEFT) AND NÉSTOR CATALÁN (ON THE RIGHT) (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATIONS:NANO MORANTE:"Plastic People is a solution to a waste problem that everyone overlooks. It came from an idea to find a solution that was not only eco-friendly but also social, a way of using garbage to give hope to people,""The possibilities with this material are endless, our only limit is creativity"NÉSTOR CATALÁN:"To transform it into something useful, something that can be in our lives on a material level, such as furniture, construction, it is something we are trying. We are transforming garbage, which is a problem, to something that we want, that we need, something that is useful for our homes, for our businesses""What we want is to stop complaining about the problems there are and to act. It's time to take action, to look for solutions rather than blaming others or the world or society. We are the society and it is our responsibility to look for solutions to the problems that we create. We create that garbage, that garbage did not exist years ago. It is garbage that has become natural, but isn't, we created it, and we have the capacity to come up with a solution."