National strategy on solid waste management revised
Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has signed a decision approving revisions to the national strategy on solid waste management to 2025 with a vision to 2050.
Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has signed a decision approving revisions to the national strategy on solid waste management to 2025 with a vision to 2050 (Illustrative photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dunghas s🎃igned a decision approving revisions to the national strategy on solidwast♊e management to 2025 with a vision to 2050.
The revised strategy sets the goal to collect, transport andtreat 100 percent of harmful solid waste generated from production, business,service activities, medical establishments and trade villages, and 85 percentof harmful solid waste discharged by households by 2025. Control over harmful solid waste will be tightened from thedischarge to collection and treatment under the strategy. Producers of electronic goods will be required to set uppoints to collect unused products and consumers are responsible for takingtheir discarded goods to such collection points. Priority will be given to developing large-scale treatmentfacilities using modern technology along with specialised processing facilitiesfor harmful solid waste. The treatment of harmful solid waste in the form of burialor incineration will be reduced while recycling is encouraged. The strategy also aims to replace nylon bags used bysupermarkets and trade centres with environmentally-friendly bags. Another goal set by the strategy is to collect and treat 80percent of solid waste generated in rural areas. To this goal, all economic sectors will be encouraged toinvest in waste collection and processing with priority given to the use ofadvanced and environmentally-friendly technologies. Plans will be built and implemented for waste sorting atsource of discharge, while dumping sites will be upgraded to ensure they do notpollute surrounding environment. Vietnam generates nearly 29 million tonnes of wasteannually, most of which is disposed in landfills in an unhygienic manner. Last year, the rate of waste collected and treated in urbanareas came to 85 percent, up 0.5 percent from 2016.-VNA
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Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has signed a decision approving revisions to the national strategy on solid waste management to 2025 with a vision to 2050 (Illustrative photo: VNA) 
