Hanoi to curb industrial pollution
Hanoi 's People Committee has set a target to reduce pollution by key industries by 2015.
Hanoi 's People Committee has set a target to reduce pollution by key industries by 2015.
Its pollution management plan focuses on controlling chemical, textile, colourant, paper, food processing and natural resources exploiting industries.
The plan stipulates all industrial and export processing zones and high-tech parks must have waste water treatment systems which meet environment protection standards. Eighty percent of dangerous industrial wastes would be collected, stored and treated properly.
Industrial manufacturing firms which caused serious environmental pollution would be closed down or moved out of residential areas. The city would support them with site clearance and infrastructure construction to maintain production. Polluting plants would get priority for land in industrial zones and intensive production zones.
The city will publish lists of polluting factories each year and oversee the construction of automated waste observation systems and data management in some industrial parks by 2013.
Meanwhile, the city is speeding up construction of waste water treatment plants in concentrated industrial areas, including a plant inaugurated in Quang Minh 1 industrial park.
Industrial waste water treatment plants in Tu Liem, Thach That-Quoc Oai and Phu Nghia industrial parks have already been completed and are being tested.-VNA
Its pollution management plan focuses on controlling chemical, textile, colourant, paper, food processing and natural resources exploiting industries.
The plan stipulates all industrial and export processing zones and high-tech parks must have waste water treatment systems which meet environment protection standards. Eighty percent of dangerous industrial wastes would be collected, stored and treated properly.
Industrial manufacturing firms which caused serious environmental pollution would be closed down or moved out of residential areas. The city would support them with site clearance and infrastructure construction to maintain production. Polluting plants would get priority for land in industrial zones and intensive production zones.
The city will publish lists of polluting factories each year and oversee the construction of automated waste observation systems and data management in some industrial parks by 2013.
Meanwhile, the city is speeding up construction of waste water treatment plants in concentrated industrial areas, including a plant inaugurated in Quang Minh 1 industrial park.
Industrial waste water treatment plants in Tu Liem, Thach That-Quoc Oai and Phu Nghia industrial parks have already been completed and are being tested.-VNA
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