solid waste treatment

National Highway 50 is an important arterial road of Ho Chi Minh City, connecting the city with Long An and Tien Giang provinces.

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha acknowledged that the price of waste treatment services currently only meets 1/10 of the treatment cost.

The Office of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City announced the conclusion of the meeting between the People's Committee of HCMC and the People's Committee of Long An Province on socio-economic development cooperation, traffic projects, and green environmental technology park projects.

To solve the remaining shortcomings in the collection, transportation, and treatment of waste for Ho Chi Minh City, many environmental experts said that it is necessary to improve the quality of the activities of the people-founded garbage collection force, improving the capacity of the official garbage collectors, converting technology from landfilling to incineration for power generation.

The investigation team of the National Assembly Committee on Science, Technology and Environment yesterday had a working session with Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee about the management of waste collection and treatment. There were 8 proposals introduced by HCMC in order to tackle existing problems in in waste management in the city.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Natural Resources and Environment is promoting the application of advanced technologies in waste management in order to manage effectively large amounts of waste generated in the city.

Statistics from the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Natural Resources and Environment reveal that each day, the city releases 9,500 tonnes of household waste. With such a huge amount of waste, there are inadequacies in collection and treatment, asking for urgent implementation of advanced technologies to improve the performance.

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has just submitted a report to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment on the implementation process of the Resolution No.120 of the Government on sustainable and climate-resilient development of the Mekong Delta.

For many years, traffic at the gateways of Ho Chi Minh City has always been overloaded. Especially, the direction to the Mekong Delta provinces is often congested. Although the number of transport infrastructure investment projects in this area is not small, the number of deployed projects is not high.

Vietstar Joint Stock Company, on May 16, held the inauguration ceremony of the first phase of the technology innovation project of the Vietstar Integrated Factory at the Northwest Solid Waste Treatment Complex in Thai My Commune in Cu Chi District of Ho Chi Minh City.

Related to results of implementation of the national projects calling for foreign investment from now to 2020 which was approved by the Prime Minister, besides 11 current construction projects, HCMC’s government has proposed the Ministry of Planning and Investment to add more 7 new projects into the list, announced the Office of the municipal People’s Committee on January 12.

The Hanoi City Party Committee has just announced top 10 outstanding events of the capital in 2020 in the fields of politics, economics, agriculture, education, construction, security and order.

HCM City is drawing up a master plan on solid waste management and treatment for the next five years, aiming to have 100 percent of its domestic solid waste to be collected and treated and at least 80 percent of solid household waste classified at source.

The program to classify household solid waste has been carried out widely in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) for a long time, and has proved effective in improving land pollution in the city. Statistics from HCMC Institute for Development Studies reveal that in 2019, 87.4 percent of families here have done waste sorting, greatly contributing to protecting the environment and applying other similar campaigns in the near future.