Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a plan to build solid-waste treatment areas in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta’s key economic zone over the next 10 years.
Six solid-waste treatment areas will be located in Can Tho City and An Giang, Kien Giang and Ca Mau provinces.
The plan targets that the Delta’s key economic zone, which comprises Can Tho City, An Giang, Kien Giang and Ca Mau provinces, will collect and treat 90 per cent of solid waste in urban areas and industrial parks by 2015, and 100 per cent by 2020.
Under the plan, the Delta’s key economic zone will build an inter-provincial solid-waste treatment area in Ca Mau to treat toxic solid waste for the Delta’s key economic zone.
The remaining five provincial solid-waste treatment area will be built:, one in Ca Mau, one in An Giang, one in Kien Giang and two in Can Tho.
From 2010-15, the Delta’s key economic zone will review and set up a roadmap to close down existing rubbish dumps that do not meet environmental protection standards.
They will also set up plans to collect and classify the kinds of solid waste that come from industrial parks or households.
In 2015-20, the Delta’s key economic zone will focus on building the six solid waste treatment areas.
The Delta’s key economic zone will give priorities to treating solid waste by recycling and limiting burying solid waste in order to avoid environmental pollution. The total amount of solid waste in the Delta’s key economic zone is estimated to reach 4,600 tonnes a day in 2015, and will increase to 7,550 tonnes a day in 2020.
