Vanuatu, hailed as "the happiest country in the world" and also "the poorest country in the world," has a remarkable unique environmental philosophy. Here, people have abandoned the use of plastic and returned to a more natural lifestyle.



This small island nation in the western South Pacific, Vanuatu, may seem like a distant travel destination to you. However, this seemingly underdeveloped country became the country with the strictest plastic ban in the world in 2018 at an astonishing pace. Its sparse population density, with only one person living per 43,000 square meters, has fostered a pioneering environmental philosophy in this vast and sparsely populated environment.