Waste clean-up to cost 3 million USD
Ho Chi Minh City will spend 60 billion VND (3.15 million USD) to
collect and treat hazardous waste accumulated at factories, according to
the city People's Committee Vice Chairman Nguyen Trung Tin.
Ho Chi Minh City will spend 60 billion VND (3.15 million USD) to
collect and treat hazardous waste accumulated at factories, according to
the city People's Committee Vice Chairman Nguyen Trung Tin.
This follows a back-up of dangerous wastes at the factories after the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, early this year, ordered waste-processing units to stop collecting hazardous wastes following a pile-up at these units too.
Tin ordered the Urban Environment Company to quickly build more warehouses and incinerators at Dong Thanh garbage dump to increase its waste-handling capacity from 30 tones a day to 80 tonnes.
According to the municipal Department of Natural Resources and Environment, the city's treatment facilities receive and treat 30-40 tonnes of hazardous wastes every day but enterprises in industrial and processing zones produce around 300 tonnes.
No factory or any other facility in the city has the capability to treat hazardous wastes generated by industries./.
This follows a back-up of dangerous wastes at the factories after the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, early this year, ordered waste-processing units to stop collecting hazardous wastes following a pile-up at these units too.
Tin ordered the Urban Environment Company to quickly build more warehouses and incinerators at Dong Thanh garbage dump to increase its waste-handling capacity from 30 tones a day to 80 tonnes.
According to the municipal Department of Natural Resources and Environment, the city's treatment facilities receive and treat 30-40 tonnes of hazardous wastes every day but enterprises in industrial and processing zones produce around 300 tonnes.
No factory or any other facility in the city has the capability to treat hazardous wastes generated by industries./.
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