People throughout the country will join forces to eliminate landfills and build a waste treatment industry, contributing a new achievement to the urbanization process.

The domestic waste treatment market, worth VND7.3-9.8 trillion, continues to attract new investments and technologies.

Many enterprises are trying the circular economy model to save input materials and strive for sustainable development, but progress is impeded by the lack of a leader.

Vietnam is among the countries discharging the most plastic waste worldwide, while its recycling rate is low and its policies have failed to cope with the increase in plastic waste, according to a released report by Ipsos Business Consulting.

Da Nang will spend an estimated VND8.54 trillion on investment projects to classify and recycle solid household waste, according to a plan issued by the municipal government.

Hanoi asked local residents to sort domestic waste at source 10 years ago in a pilot program. The municipal authorities have also passed regulations to implement this on a large scale. However, everything remains on paper.

As a first step in reducing the need to bury waste, construction of HCMC’s first waste-to-energy plant will begin on August 28, with its launch scheduled for the end of next year.

As of June, more than 500 containers of waste which failed to meet Vietnam’s import requirements had been re-exported this year, said the Vietnam Maritime Administration on August 11.

HCM City hopes that the International Finance Corporation (IFC) will continue to help the city deal with challenges in urban transport, infrastructure construction and waste treatment, thus ensuring sustainable development.

Hanoi is facing the waste disposal overloading as dumping sites are almost full, while waste treatment projects are behind schedule.

Hanoi, HCMC and other big cities are using waste-to-electricity (WTE) technology to treat domestic waste and produce much-needed power.v

Vietnam has started a series of measures to reduce plastic waste, it was reported at a talks on the environment and plastic waste in Ho Chi Minh City on June 13.

Young people and volunteers have spent thousands of working days removing trash in ‘hot environment spots’.

Dutch company Upp! UpCycling Plastic and Toàn Hải Vân JSC (a member company of TTC Land) on April 11 signed a co-operation agreement to build a cyclic plastic-waste disposal plant on Phú Quốc Island.

VietNamNet Bridge - Management over solid waste treatment is being undertaken by many state agencies.

VietNamNet Bridge - The creator of the ‘waste-to-electricity and organic carbon technology specifically designed for Vietnam’ is Nguyen Gia Long, director of the Hydraulic Machines Company (HMC). 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Overlapping and ineffective co-ordination between ministries and agencies has been blamed for poor solid waste management in Vietnam’s rural areas.

VietNamNet Bridge - The waste treatment complexes in Da Nang and Hue are becoming overloaded, while the two landfills in Ha Long City have had to shut down because of pollution.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many landfills in cities and provinces have become ‘hot spots’ due to serious pollution. 

Advertising campaigns and big money spent on activities still cannot familiarize Vietnamese with the habit of using environmentally friendly bags to ease the burden on the environment.