Ho Chi Minh City is under great pressure to handle an increasing amount of domestic waste as well as hazardous medical and industrial waste, according to the municipal Department of Planning and Investment.
A symposium held in northern Hai Phong city on September 19 looked into the global trend of eco-industrial parks (EIPs) and their prospects in Vietnam.
The Binh Duong waste treatment complex in the southern province of Binh Duong can serve as a model for other localities in handling household and industrial waste, environment experts said.
Ho Chi Minh City is now treating hazardous medical and industrial waste by high-tech methods at two plants, but by 2020 the city will need additional plant capacity as well as more private investment when public funding runs out.
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Natural Resources and Environment plans to improve waste and water management as well as land-use management this year.
The first phase of the first waste treatment and organic fertilizer production complex of the central province of Binh Thuan was completed and put into operation on December 16.
Authorities of Ho Chi Minh City support the Siam City Cement Vietnam in producing environmentally friendly construction materials, a municipal official told executives of the Thai-invested firm on July 3.
HCM City has advanced to this month an extraordinary meeting to discuss waste treatment and environmental pollution after National Assembly deputies from the city expressed concern over the issues.
The first industrial waste power generation plant in Vietnam was inaugurated and officially put into operation at the Nam Son Waste Treatment Complex in the Hanoi outlying district of Soc Son, Hanoi, on April 24.
The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) will include basic regulations on eco-industrial parks (EIPs) in some draft decrees to be submitted to the Government for consideration later this year.
Vietnam’s first waste-to-energy system capable of generating 1,930kW of power by treating 75 tonnes of industrial waste per day was launched in Hanoi’s suburban district of Soc Son on September 16.
The signing of a contract between the Formosa Ha Tinh Company and the Ky Anh environment company that allows the former to dump its waste at a farm of the latter’s director violates environment laws.
The production and sale of construction materials from the beginning of this year are quite favourable with stable prices, the Construction Materials Department evaluated.