VietNamNet Bridge – New apartment buildings in Hanoi are cutting corners on waste treatment or skipping it all together to maximise profit, creating serious pollution problems for residents and those living in neighbouring areas. 

VietNamNet Bridge – The large waste treatment plant in the southern province of An Giang, designed to treat garbage and make organic fertilizer, is now being used as a garbage dump.

 VietNamNet Bridge –  Big cities are spending more and more money treat the rapid increase in the volume of waste, causing difficulties for local authorities.

Thousands of households in Tan Yen District in Bac Giang province have protested against a plan to set up a waste treatment plant in the locality, though the plant would help ease environmental pollution and create local jobs.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A revised law allowing the import of used ships has inspired spirited debate amongst authorities and experts. While some believe the law will boost the profitable shipping industry,

 VietNamNet Bridge – There are 43 operational biomass power projects nationwide, with 40 plants fueled by bagasse and having a combined capacity of 150MW, and three others powered by rice husk and waste

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 7,000 litres of toxic polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) transformer oil that has been stored in a warehouse at Quang Ninh's Cai Lan Port since 2007 will be removed this week.

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has inspected environmental protection measures put in place, particularly in handling waste treatment, in the southern province of Binh Duong.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City People’s Committee has released a regulation on wastewater zoning and wastewater standards with stricter requirements than the ones currently in force in the city.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Waste treatment remains a big headache for local authorities in the Mekong Delta. While open dumping on the ground pollutes the environment, modern waste treatment plants have been left idle.

Hazardous medical waste, much of it contaminated with infectious agents, is often sold to scrap dealers . They in turn bring the waste to recycling workshops, where workers create consumer goods for daily use.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Wastewater and gas discharged from the Dung Quat Oil Refinery in the central province of Quang Ngai did not cause environmental pollution,

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 Eight people were sentenced to a total of 103 years in prison in southern Vinh Long Province's court yesterday for embezzlement involving the making and repair of cultural and historical relics.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Construction began on Thursday on Ha Noi's first's industrial waste-to-energy (WtE) facility at the Nam Son Waste Treatment Complex in Soc Son District with an expected completion by 2014.

An environment service company has successfully set up the garbage treatment system with the incineration technology with heat recovery.

Millions of tons of garbage have been thrown away every year. Meanwhile, this could be a potential source of energy.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi has approved spending more than VND107 trillion (US$5.1 billion) on collecting, classifying and properly treating solid waste in a bid to reduce environmental pollution and make the capital city greener by 2030.