Investors are willing to spend money to build modern garbage treatment plants which would generate electricity and make compost fertilizer. However, they need the amounts of garbage big enough to run.
A report showed that 23 tons of domestic garbage is discharged every day from urban areas, while 85 percent of the garbage has been dumped at the landfills and only 15 percent has been treated to make compost fertilizer.
According to Nguyen Trung Viet, Chief Secretariat of the HCM City Office for Climate Change Studies, about 9,200 tons out of the total 23,000 tons of garbage every day (40 percent) can be burnt to generate electricity with the total capacity of 200 MW.
HCM City alone discharges 7,500 tons of garbage every day, which could be a big source of fuel for making electricity.
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