Panasonic, Vietnam Environment Agency to cooperate in environment protection activities

Accordingly, PV and VEA are going to continue planting trees and holding classes on environment protection, as well as organise a contest on environment protection and a campaign to trade old batteries for environmentally friendly batteries.

PV has been carrying out its environment education programme, which consists of classes on climate change, biodiversity, renewable energies and biotechnology, in Vietnam since 2011 in order to nourish children’s care for the environment. As of now more than 15,000 primary and secondary school children have joined in the classes. In 2016, 1,000 school children in five provinces are going to join the classes.

In addition, the two parties are going to work with localities in raising public awareness in using environmentally-friendly batteries through a campaign to trade for free old batteries, which contain harmful substances such as lead, mercury and cadmium for new batteries made by Panasonic that do not contain them.

“We hope that with this programme communities are going to be aware of more activities to protect the environment, which do not just stop at saving energy and resources but also include reducing harmful waste,” said Masahiro Yamamoto, director of PV.

“We support Panasonic’s increasing their sustainable production and consumption activities in Vietnam,” said Nguyen Van Tai, head of the VEA.

Panasonic’s environment protection activities are going to benefit 200,000 people in Southeast Asia and Asia-Pacific by March 2016. Panasonic aims to decrease its carbon dioxide emission by using bio-friendly products and through green production activities, saving on natural resources and controlling the use of chemicals.

Panasonic has seven member companies in Vietnam as of April last year, with Panasonic Vietnam as the managing company, five manufacturing companies namely Panasonic Industrial Devices Vietnam (PIDVN), Panasonic System Networks Vietnam (PSNV), Panasonic Appliances Vietnam (PAPVN), Panasonic AVC Networks Vietnam (PAVCV) and Panasonic Eco Solutions Vietnam (PESVN), and the Panasonic Research and Development Centre Vietnam (PRDCV). Together they employ 8,000.