With their skillful hands, sixteen Vietnamese and foreign artists have turned a landfill in Hanoi to a contemporary art space, featuring sixteen story-telling art installations about Thang Long – Ke Cho, a former busy marketplace in the capital.

The HCM City People’s Committee is calling for investment in the form of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) to improve environmental conditions at three closed landfill sites.

In recent decades, waste from nuclear power plants, hospitals and electronic gadgets, which may cause cancer and threatens the life of human beings, has become an extremely severe problem.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many islands in Vietnam suffer from serious pollution, but no solution has been found to solve the problem.

VietNamNet Bridge - A number of streets in Tan Phu District, as well as canals and arroyos in the area, are full of waste.

VietNamNet Bridge - Environmental experts say HCMC needs to find solutions to smart water use, an important part of the plan to develop a smart city. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Two students in Can Tho City are using waste from seafood processing factories to create microbiological sludge to grow safe vegetables and ornamental flowers. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of residents of the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong’s Dak R’Lap District lived mired in the rubbish and fumes from a rubbish treatment facility near the residential area.

VietNamNet Bridge - Formosa’s behavior of illegally dumping solid waste has been discovered, but many other companies are escaping state management.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Five hundred households in Dong Ao and My Tho communes in the northern province of Ha Nam’s Thanh Thuy District claimed that they have been suffering serious environmental pollution for many years.

VietNamNet Bridge - HCM City wants to make use of the 10,000-11,000 tons of waste discharged every day in the city to generate electricity. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The owners of garbage-collection rings behave like “barons”, who want to make a lot of money and wield power.

 VietNamNet Bridge – While local people in Dak Lak province affirm that the waste burning in the nearby landfill leads to the failure of coffee crops, the provincial agencies affirm the incineration has no relation with the crop failure.