30 countries from Asia & Pacific adopt the Ha Noi 3R Declaration (Reduce, Reuse, Recycling) on Sustainable 3R Goals for Asia and the Pacific for 2013‐2023
"Representatives from the Governments of 30 countries from Asia & the Pacific, international organizations, bilateral and multilateral agencies, research organizations, and professionals on waste management, adopt the Ha Noi 3R Declaration (Reduce, Reuse, Recycling) on Sustainable 3R Goals for Asia and the Pacific for 2013‐2023.
The Hanoi Declaration represents an important breakthrough for the integration of the environmental, economic and social dimensions on recycling and is in this regard a very positive contribution to the follow up to the Rio+20 summit, June 2012."