The treatment of solid waste in two of the most important cities in Vietnam currently faces a scarcity of land needed for waste dumping and slowness in constructing treatment plants that employ modern technologies. Many waste disposal areas in Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital, are in dire need of expansion due to the shortage of dumping space caused by the use of landfill as the primary treatment method. The city’s largest treatment site, in Soc Son District, which receives about four thousand tons of solid waste daily, is expected to witness a two-fold increase in size, from its present 210 acres, equal to the area of just over 100 standard soccer fields combined, according to Le Van Duc, director of the Hanoi Department of Construction. Other sizable landfills in the capital are expected to be one or two times larger by 2020, he said. He added that confronting the lack of this type of resource, the local government has planned to establish waste treatment facilities with advanced technologies. However, the project’s implementation has been slow so far. The construction of a plant providing such equipment in Soc Son District, Hanoi, has recently started, and is due for completion in 2019. The capital has roughly 20 projects of solid waste management factories, 14 of which have obtained investment, said Nguyen Manh Quyen, director of the Hanoi Planning and Investment Department. Ten more landfills will come into reality here, but only six of them are already in the process of taking physical shape, according… [Read full story]
HCM CITY (VNS) - The government of HCM City plans to remove two polluting waste-treatment plants out of the city by the end of 2020 upon the completion of a new waste-treatment plant in Long An Province's Thu Thua District. Councillor Vo Van Tan, who raised the issue at a meeting of the city's People's Council on Thursday, said the pollution from the plant in Phuoc Hiep Commune had caused a bad odour that had even reached the Cu Chi District's People's Committee's office four to five kilometres away. Dao Anh Kiet, director of HCM City's Department of Natural Resources…... [read more]
The government of HCM City plans to remove two polluting waste-treatment plants out of the city by the end of 2020 upon the completion of a new waste-treatment plant in Long An Province's Thu Thua District. , who raised the issue at a meeting of the city's People's Council on Thursday, said the pollution from the plant in Phuoc Hiep Commune had caused a bad odour that had even reached the Cu Chi District's People's Committee's office four to five kilometres away. Dao Anh Kiet, director of HCM City's Department of Natural Resources and Environment, said the Phuoc Hiep waste-treatment…... [read more]
VietNamNet Bridge - Rapid urbanization, higher living standards, large volume of waste and rapid increase in the number of hospitals have all made Vietnam a potential market for foreign investors to develop waste treatment projects. Saku Liuksia, manager of the waste-to-energy and bio-energy program at the Finnish export and investment promotion agency Finpro, who attended VietWater 2016, said Finnish companies have a great interest in cooperating with Vietnam to develop the projects on waste treatment and sewage projects and transfer technologies to Vietnam. He said Vietnam has great potential to develop projects on turning waste into energy and many Finnish…... [read more]
A solid waste treatment complex worth 16 million EUR (21.6 million USD) came into operation on September 20 in the southern province of Binh Duong. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Bui Cach Tuyen said Binh Duong waste treatment complex will reduce land-fill volume, produce environmentally friendly goods to save natural resources. Finland's Ambassador Kimmo Lahdevirta to Vietnam was also present at the event. The Binh Duong waste treatment complex in Ben Cat District has two main areas - a domestic-waste treatment area where the solid waste is treated and recycled into compost with…... [read more]
Ho Chi Minh City has to cope with about 7,800 tonnes of solid waste each day, most of which is piled at dumping sites, said Dao Anh Kiet, director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment in a seminar on Thursday. Kiet was speaking at a seminar on solid waste treatment hosted by the city. He said that only a small part of the above solid waste amount is recycled for compost, and that the garbage is just dumped at the site but not segregated. According to him, 70 per cent of the fund allocated for waste treatment in…... [read more]
