Hazardous solid waste is around 150,000 tons per year, including 6,300 tons of hazardous healthcare waste per year.
However, experts say the technology, which was considered suitable many years ago, is no longer reasonable.
Instead of using large land fund for waste burial, the land needs to be used for other purposes for the community’s benefits.
Buried waste causes environmental problems, including soil and water pollution.
Many hazardous materials can be found at landfills such as mercury, arsenic, cadmium, lead and plastics.
Landfills gather all kinds of waste.
Sorting waste at the source and recycling waste are two of the solutions proposed to control burial of waste.
The sorting of waste at source has been implemented for many years in HCMC.
The HCMC Department of Natural Resources and the Environment has submitted to the city’s authorities the planning of the network of domestic solid waste transit stations by 2025.
The report prepared by the HCMC People’s Committee for the meeting shows that in order to collect and treat waste, the city has to spend VND2.2-2.4 trillion a year.