Vietnam is wasting ... garbage

While advanced countries such as Japan, the US and the UK invest millions of dollars in recycling waste for the purpose of saving and protecting the environment, Vietnam is among the countries that are wasting new resources. "This.

Recently, the situation of littering as well as inadequacies in the process of waste disposal become problems in our country, especially in big cities like Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

Specifically, in Hanoi, the volume of domestic waste is estimated at 5,000 tons per day. And with an average increase of 15% per year, environmental experts warn that there will be no place to bury garbage in 2012 . Ho Chi Minh City has more than 7,000 tons of domestic waste discharged into the environment every day, each year, the treatment of waste has consumed 235 billion VND.

The utilization of garbage helps to save and protect the environment.Photo: Ngoan.

The common method of waste treatment in Vietnam now only stops at burial, manual burning, and people still daily litter litter on canals and rivers. This situation not only pollutes the environment and water resources, but also directly affects the health and diseases of people.

Meanwhile, according to the assessment of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Natural Resources and Environment, besides the purpose of protecting the environment, garbage collection and treatment promises to bring great economic and social benefits. Currently, some Vietnamese enterprises have pioneered in this area and started to benefit from the utilization of garbage for the purpose of recycling paper, steel, iron ., producing micro-organic fertilizer, making use of heat to burn garbage to distilled water collection . This work has helped save burial costs, make use of garbage resources, and create jobs for many people.

According to the Vietnam Paper Association, domestic enterprises have invested in installing a series of modern and synchronous lines to recycle pulp from scraps with a total capacity of up to 190,000 tons per year. However, the difficulty is that the recovery rate of used paper in our country is very low. Specifically, this rate is only about 50%, while neighboring countries such as Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia are over 80%.

At the training session " Environmental protection - collection and recycling of milk cans after use " on July 12 in Ho Chi Minh City, Ms. Tu Bich Nguyet, Director of Tetra Pak Vietnam Co., Ltd. called on all People are aware of the benefits of garbage collection for convenient recycling, while helping to protect the environment while increasing income for the family.

She said: ' Currently in Vietnam only a small amount of waste is collected for recycling, the rest is mainly carried away for destruction. It is a huge waste, while paper mills can reuse up to 50-55% of pulp packaging . '

In addition, attending this training course, 200 waste collection workers in Ho Chi Minh City were also instructed how to collect and store waste paper and milk boxes as well as introduce locations of purchasing centers. high-quality recyclables .