VietNamNet
Bridge – Though the budget for solutions
to protect the environment has increased by two folds in 2006-2011, from 1429
billion dong in 2006 to 2954.3 billion dong in 2011, dealing with the
environment pollution remains a difficult task for the whole society.
The serious pollution…
It is
estimated that 1.5 billion cubic meters of untreated waste water is discharged
to the environment, which includes 1 billion cubic meters from urban areas and
industrial zones. Every day, Hanoi discharges 260,000 cubic meters of
industrial waste water. And every day, the Dong Nai River system has to receive
1.5 million cubic meters of waste water from industrial production.
While
the environment pollution has become alarming throughout the country, Vietnam
still has not found effective measures to settle the problem. Especially,
investors have not been encouraged enough to make investment in the environment
protection projects.
Experts
have pointed out that the environment industry has not taken shape yet in
Vietnam. Despite the serious environmental pollution, Vietnam still applies
backward waste recycling technologies to treat wastes, which explains the low
efficiency of the waste treatment. The equipment has been made separately,
while they still cannot be manufactured in large quantities.
According
to the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment, 30 percent of
industrial workshops, mostly large and medium scaled, have waste water treatment
stations. However, most of the systems cannot meet the standards or they do not
operate regularly.
90
percent of the existing 500 paper establishments nationwide either do not have
waste water treatment systems, or have the systems but they cannot satisfy the
requirements.
By the
end of 2011, Vietnam had had 283 industrial zones, while 65 percent of the 180
operational zones still do not have waste treatment systems.
The
reports by relevant agencies show that the waste causing the environmental
pollution is alarmingly big. The total solid waste generated in urban arrears
is about 30,000 tons per day, while only 83 percent of which can be collected
and treated.
In
rural areas, 30,000 tons of waste is generated every day, but only 50 percent
of them can be treated. Especially, the percentage is very low in some areas,
just 20-30 percent.
Dumping
rubbish remains the most popular way of treating waste in Vietnam with 80-85
percent of waste dumped. However, scientists say only 15-20 percent of the dumped
rubbish can be treated in a hygienic way.
Responding
to the call for investment by the State, 20 projects on processing waste into
recycled products have been put into operation. However, most of the waste
treatment plants have small scale which cannot settle all the problems. In
urban areas, only 15 percent of solid waste can be treated or recycled.
According
to Dang Van Loi, Deputy Director of the Environment Control Agency under the
General Directorate of Environment, dealing with medical waste remains the
toughest problem. Vietnam now has 11,600 healthcare centers which generate 350
tons of waste every day, including 40 tons of hazardous waste.
At
present, only 35 percent of hospitals have medical waste incinerators, and only
1/3 of the medical waste can be treated with incinerators. The remaining waste
has been burned in the open air (15.3 percent), burned with self-modified
kilns, dumped within the hospitals’ campuses, or discharged to the public
dumping grounds.
… is the big opportunity for businesses
Experts
have said that environment businesses would never have to sit idle because of
no job.
It is
estimated that the demanded capital for the environment protection in 16
economic fields (garment and textile, paper, steel, chemicals, electricity,
seafood, industrial zones…) may reach 7.6 billion dollars. Of this amount, 800
million dollars would be needed for the steel manufacturing, 326 million
dollars for garments and textiles.
It is
expected that 7 solid waste water treatment centers would be set up in three
key economic zones by 2020 with the total investment capital of 600 million
dollars.
Source:
DDDN
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