(Tinmoitruong.vn) - Lao Cai is building a solid waste treatment plant under French technology with a total investment of nearly VND 100 billion. The plant is to treat the entire domestic solid waste in Lao Cai, Sapa and Bat Xat.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - Many residents in villages in Ha Nam Province’s Duy Tien District became seriously ill and lost their jobs after giving up farmland to the state to make room for the Dong Van Industrial Zone (IZ) in the province.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - Nearly 70 percent of Vietnam’s population are living in rural areas, producing over 31,500 tonnes of household solid waste a day, of which between 40 and 55 percent is collected, data has showed.

A bubbling, polluted canal in Saigon

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - The 2-km-long Ba Bo Canal that extends between Binh Duong Province and Ho Chi Minh City has been covered by white bubbles that look like snow for many years.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - Household garbage that pollutes the environment has become a serious problem everywhere, from urban to rural areas, from remote provinces to islands.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - People in the Central Highlands area are afraid that hydropower plants may discharge water in the rainy season, thus threatening their normal lives.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - Secretary of the Ha Noi Party Committee, Pham Quang Nghi suggested raising the environmental levy on households in the capital, arguing the current fee is too low.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - About 300-500 tons of medical waste, including 45 tons of hazardous medical waste, is discharged to the environment everyday. Only about 50 percent of hospitals have medical wastewater treatment systems.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - Urban waste treatment should be handed over to private operators since public facilities have proved inefficient, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has said.

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - Waste treatment remains a big headache for local authorities in the Mekong Delta. While open dumping on the ground pollutes the environment, modern waste treatment plants have been left idle.

Waste recycling day raises awareness of 3Rs

(Tinmoitruong.vn) - The seventh annual Waste Recycling Day was held in Ho Chi Minh City on April 20, aiming to raise public awareness of reducing, reusing and recycling waste – known as the ‘3Rs’.