How billions of discarded Tetra Paks cover Vietnam's beaches and towns | Corinne Redfern

More than 8bn Tetra Paks are sold every year in Vietnam - and only a few percent are recycled. It's having a devastating effect on the environmentIt takes 45 minutes to pick up all the milk cartons that have washed up on Long Hai beach overnight. "I feel like all I do is collect them," says Nguyen Thi Ngoc Tham, gesturing towards the quiet length of sand that fronts her beach house in the south of Vietnam. "I fill about three or four bags every morning, but then there will be a big wave, and when I look back over my shoulder the sand is covered again." Continue reading...