Dung made thestatement while receiving Sebastian Rose, sales director of Germany’s INTECcompany, which has 30-year experience in industrial waste treatment, in Hanoion June 11.
After being introducedto the German company’s technology to turn solid waste into gas and energy, theDeputy PM lauded the INTEC’s idea of investing in a waste-to-energy plant inVietnam, saying the country is in need of modern and suitable waste treatment technologiesto protect the environment.
However, he held that modern technology is normally expensive and not suitableto the condition of Vietnam as most of the technologies require wasteclassification.
Currently, waste inVietnam is basically treated by burying, which is harmful to the environment.Meanwhile, the pilot of other technologies following the models applied in manycountries was not successful due to failure in waste classification, he noted,adding that high price is another concern of Vietnam.
He asked the Ministryof Science and Technology to coordinate with other ministries and sectors to verifyand assess economic-technical indications of the waste-to-energy technology ofINTEC company.
The Ministry ofIndustry and Trade was assigned to work with relevant ministries and agenciesto calculate the price of power provided by solid waste-to-energy plants.
Deputy PM Dung alsounderscored the need to design specific projects for pilot implementation,while reminding enterprises to consider the possibility of producing lines andequipment domestically to reduce costs.-VNA