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The plan falls under the city’s action plan for adapting to climate change in 2011-2015 recently worked out by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment.
The total investment capital for these projects is VND12.6 trillion. Particularly, the incinerator project will need VND5.6 trillion and be implemented by Keppel Seghers Engineering Company.
The hazardous waste plant worth VND3 trillion has been awarded to the HCMC Urban Environment Company while the city’s Urban Drainage Company will carry out the wastewater treatment plant capitalized at VND4 trillion.
These plants are estimated to start operation in the 2013-2015 period.
Each day sees some 7,000 tons of garbage collected in the city and transferred to the treatment areas. And this waste is mostly treated using landfill technology.
The city has set a target that 10% of solid waste will be incinerated to collect heat for electricity generation, 40% of organic waste recycled into compost fertilizer, and 10% recycled by 2015.
Nguyen Trung Viet, director of the Office of Solid Waste Management under the city’s environment department, told the Daily that the city would spend some VND18 trillion implementing the climate change adaptation projects by 2015.
Around 50% will come from foreign sources, 30% from the central government, 10% from the city’s budget and the remainder from the private sector.
Sea levels are forecast to rise by 65cm in near future, submerging 128 square kilometers of low-lying areas under water. If the level was 100cm, the area affected would surge to 473 square kilometers, 23% of the city’s area.
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