VietNamNet Bridge – The central province of Phu Yen has restarted construction of a solid garbage treatment plant in Hoa Kien and An Phu communes of Tuy Hoa City after a three-year delay.

A mock-up of a T-Tech company garbage treatment plant. Photo courtesy of T-Tech company

The province said the project, which will be built on 10ha with total investment of VND264 billion (US$11.7 million), was designed to treat 240 tonnes of household rubbish – 50 per cent of the province’s rubbish– each day.

Chairman of T-Tech, the new project investor, Nguyen Dinh Trong said last week the plant would recycle 30 per cent of total rubbish, while 60 per cent will be burnt in furnace for biogas collection.

The plant will also produce 10,000 bricks from rubbish each day and compost from rubbish.

According to the province, nearly 500 tonnes of household rubbish are released each day, but only 50 per cent of garbage is collected daily.

The province has 20 dumps, but only two use environmentally friendly treatment.

The plant will start operations in 2019.

The project, approved in 2014, had its licence revoked by the local administration from the Thanh Tung Company – the initial investor of the project - in March of 2017 as the company had not begun construction.

Phu Yen will be the second province in the central region to develop a solid waste treatment project after Da Nang.  

In 2015, the Viet Nam Environment Joint-Stock Company debuted its first waste treatment plant at Khanh Son dump in Da Nang processing 100 per cent of rubbish into recycled oil and unbaked bricks bio charcoal. 

The central Phu Yen Province has restarted a rubbish treatment plant after a 3-year delay. Photo: VNS

Source: VNS