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                             Vietnam takes measures to treat increase in domestic waste
                              21 August 2018 | 09:49:00 AM 
                             As domestic solid waste has long been piling up and become an acute issue in Vietnam for a long time, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) is developing a project to improve waste treatment and management in both rural and urban areas.
                             
According to  deputy head of the MoNRE’s Vietnam Environment Administration Hoang Van  Thuc, increased mounds of rubbish have posed great challenges to  treatment process across all localities. 
 
  
Workers sort waste at a waste treatment factory (Photo: VNA)
He explained how the average daily  disposal of solid waste is 0.4kg per person in rural areas. The amount  recorded in Red River and Mekong Delta regions is 0.5kg due to intensive  farming activities. Meanwhile, that in northern mountainous localities  is estimated at 0.3kg.
The classification of solid waste before  treatment has been carried out in such localities as Quang Ninh, Hai  Phong, Hanoi, Thua Thien-Hue, Ho Chi Minh City, and Can Tho city;  however, it has proven inefficient due to a shortage of human resources  and infrastructure. There is currently no treatment model that meets the  technical, economic, social and environmental standards.
To mention one, many waste treatment facilities have been built in unsuitable places.
Under the MoNRE’s project, the ministry  will complete legal documents on solid waste management as well as  clarify the responsibilities of the ministries, local authorities,  production facilities, and residents.
It will expand financial support, along  with preferences in taxes and fees, for recycling projects and promote  public-private cooperation in solid waste treatment and recycling.
Organisations and households will have to pay higher fees for discharging garbage to cover waste collection and treatment costs.
Also, it will work out technical support  measures to reduce buried waste while increasing recycling as well as  building model waste treatment plants. 
The ministry recommends that the National  Assembly instruct localities to set up plans and supervise the  implementation of legal regulations on solid waste management, issue the  amended Law on Environmental Protection 2014, and allocate capital for  litter management and environmental protection activities.
Relevant ministries, agencies, and  localities should draw specific plans to effectively carry out the Prime  Minister’s Decision No.491/QD-TTg dated May 7, 2018 approving the  adjustment of a national strategy on solid waste management until 2025,  with vision towards 2050.
The provincial People’s Committees must  ensure that garbage collection and treatment activities take place in  communes or residential areas by December 2018. They should issue costs  for solid waste collection and treatment as well as announce support  from the state budget to ensure a stable trash collection service.
They are not allowed to approve  investments in landfills and waste incinerators in villages and  communes. It is necessary to instruct organisations and individuals to  produce organic fertiliser from disposed organic waste.
Furthermore, they should work with the  Ministry of Planning and Investment to call for foreign investment in  waste treatment plants using state-of-the-art technology.
(TTXVN)
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