HCMC draws up plan to deal with hazardous waste treatment
The HCMC Department of Natural Resources and Environment has granted more than 5,000 registry books to the owners of hazardous waste sources. Official reports show the amount of hazardous waste has been increasing steadily year after year, from 250 tons per day in 2011 to 300 tons in 2012, to 320 tons in 2013 and 350 tons in 2014. The figure rose to 400 tons per day in 2015. Observers noted that the hazardous substances from household domestic waste (batteries,, fluorescent lamps and electronics) and from small production workshops, which discharge less than 600 kilos a year (which don’t have to register with state agencies), are not counted.
Therefore, the real volume of hazardous waste per day would be much higher than 400 tons. The natural resource and environment department, after analyzing the economic growth rate and industrial production increase, estimated at 12-14 percent per annum, has predicted that about 700 tons of hazardous waste would be generated every day in HCMC by 2020. Meanwhile, the figure would be 1,000 tons per day by 2025.
