More than 71% of wards and communes in Ho Chi Minh City have been recognised as “clean” areas – one of the outstanding results of the 200-day emulation movement held to celebrate its upcoming municipal Party Congress.
The movement also had a positive spill-over effect, helping the city take steps towards becoming “a rubbish-free city”.
Located in the heart of the downtown area, Nguyen Thai Binh Market in District 1 used to be a pollution black spot. Today, though, it’s become much cleaner. After every market session, under the supervision of the market’s management board, traders voluntarily clean up any waste around their area.
Several provinces may be investing too much in incineration, overlooking improvements in waste sorting and recycling.
A liquified waste incinerator in China. Image: Fast Future Industrial ServicThe vision to make China an “ecological civilisation” has been espoused at the highest political level. It includes, among other things, efficiently using resources, reducing waste and using extracted materials in a circular manner. Reaching these objectives will require timely and well-planned investments in waste-management capacity.China has invested largely in incineration over the past decade to help manage the massive growth in the amount of municipal solid waste, produced by homes and businesses. The latest government data, from 2018, shows that 99 per cent of collected waste was managed, up from 67 per cent in just 10 years. Tiếp tục đọc “Is China building more waste incinerators than it needs?”→
The slow development of a waste collection, transport and treatment system in Vietnam is caused mostly by limited financial resources.
According to the Directorate General of Environment, 13,000 tons of waste is generated every day in HCM City, including 8,300 tons of domestic waste, 1,500-2,000 tons of industrial waste, 1,200-1,600 tons of waste from construction works, 22 tons of medical waste and 2,000 tons of sludge of different kinds.
A fast growing mountain of toxic e-waste is polluting the planet and damaging health, says new report
A worker at an electronic and electric equipment recycling and reuse plant, belonging to Ecopolis Corporation, in Moscow. Photograph: Sergei Karpukhin/Tass
At least $10bn (£7.9bn) worth of gold, platinum and other precious metals are dumped every year in the growing mountain of electronic waste that is polluting the planet, according to a new UN report.
A record 54m tonnes of “e-waste” was generated worldwide in 2019, up 21% in five years, the UN’s Global E-waste Monitor report found. The 2019 figure is equivalent to 7.3kg for every man, woman and child on Earth, though use is concentrated in richer nations. The amount of e-waste is rising three times faster than the world’s population, and only 17% of it was recycled in 2019.
Electronic and electrical goods, from phones and computers to refrigerators and kettles, have become indispensable in modern societies and enhance lives. But they often contain toxic chemicals, and soaring production and waste damages human health and the environment, and fuels the climate crisis.
The report blames lack of regulation and the short lifespan of products that are hard or impossible to repair. Experts called the situation a “wholly preventable global scandal”.
People in northern Europe produced the most e-waste – 22.4kg per person in 2019. The amount was half as much in eastern Europe. Australians and New Zealanders disposed of 21.3kg per person, while in the US and Canada the figure was 20.9kg. Averages across Asia and Africa were much lower, at 5.6kg and 2.5kg per person respectively.E-waste contains materials including copper, iron, gold, silver and platinum, which the report gives a conservative value of $57bn. But most are dumped or burned rather than being collected for recycling. Precious metals in waste are estimated to be worth $14bn, but only $4bn-worth is recovered at the moment. Tiếp tục đọc “$10bn of precious metals dumped each year in electronic waste, says UN”→
Tahir Gasanin operates the mechanical claw that feeds the burner at a “waste-to-energy” power plant with five tons of garbage at a time.Credit…Casper Hedberg for The New York Times
By Amy Yee Sept. 21, 2018
LINKOPING, Sweden — In a cavernous room filled with garbage, a giant mechanical claw reaches down and grabs five tons of trash. As a technician in a control room maneuvers the spiderlike crane, the claw drops its moldering harvest down a 10-story shaft into a boiler that is hotter than 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit. A fetid odor emanates from plastic trash bags discarded by hundreds of thousands of homes.
Stretch of road laid at DEEP C Industrial Zone in Hai Phong.
Ambassador of Belgium to Vietnam, H.E. Paul Jansen, attended the inauguration of the first asphalt road using recycled plastics on October 1 in the northern city of Hai Phong, together with representatives from the Hai Phong People’s Committee and related departments.
Dow and DEEP C Industrial Zones completed the 200-meter section of road enhanced with recycled plastics at the DEEP C Industrial Zone in the city. The project is a collaborative effort between Dow and DEEP C to provide innovative solutions to address plastics waste and advance a circular economy in Vietnam. Tiếp tục đọc “Asphalt road using recycled plastics laid”→
Trong một lần dự lễ phát động ra quân toàn quốc phong trào chống rác thải nhựa, có sự tham dự của Thủ tướng Chính phủ Nguyễn Xuân Phúc, lãnh đạo các Bộ, ban, ngành, doanh nghiệp và đông đảo người dân, phóng viên Báo Điện tử VietnamPlus đã được lãnh đạo một doanh nghiệp thu gom rác tiết lộ thông tin gây “sốc” rằng: “Khí thế như vậy nhưng sự thực là Hà Nội sắp ngập rác rồi nhà báo ạ. Chúng tôi (những doanh nghiệp lĩnh vực môi trường-PV) không kham nổi nữa, chắc phải ‘trả rác’ cho thành phố…” Tiếp tục đọc “‘Ma trận đấu thầu tập trung’: Hà Nội nguy cơ ‘thất thủ’ vì rác thải”→
Phong trào “chống rác thải nhựa” ngày càng nở rộ khắp tỉnh Đắk Lắk bằng rất nhiều sáng kiến khác nhau.
Tại trường tiểu học Hoàng Việt (TP Buôn Ma Thuột), với video clip dự án rất sinh động đáng yêu mang tên “Phân loại rác thải-hành động nhỏ, ý nghĩa lớn”, đội “Voi rừng” gồm 4 học sinh nhỏ đã vinh dự được Ban tổ chức Phong trào trẻ em toàn thế giới Design for change gửigiấy mời sang Roma-Ý dự sự kiện “Kiến tạo để thay đổi” vào cuối tháng 11/2019.
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Gần như toàn bộ núi rác nghìn tấn đổ xuống vườn dân ở thung lũng
Bằng thiết bị ghi hình từ trên cao, phóng viên Tuổi Trẻ Online ghi nhận không phải một phần bãi tập trung rác của TP Đà Lạt (bãi rác Cam Ly, P.5, Đà Lạt) mà gần như toàn bộ khu tập trung rác đổ xuống vườn dân.
Núi rác sạt một đường dài từ đỉnh xuống thung lũng, nơi có vườn hoa của dân trông như suối rác.
Ghi nhận mỗi ngày có khoảng 200 tấn rác đổ về bãi rác Cam Ly. Như vậy lượng rác đổ xuống vườn dân lên đến hàng ngàn tấn rác.
Fahasa will stop using single-use plastic next month and shift to biodegradable bags and paper wrappings.
Starting August 1, Fahasa, Vietnam’s biggest bookstore chain, will use a paper band to wrap books purchased from their shops for customers who bring their own bag, the company has recently announced on its official Facebook page. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam’s biggest bookstore chain to eschew plastic bags”→
HÀ NỘI — Villages across the country have benefited from the country’s economic development, however, many do not have measures in place to deal with environmental protection.
The village of Trát Cầu in Hà Nội, which produces blankets, bed sheets and pillows, is a typical example.
Nguyễn Quang Thà, chairman of the Trát Cầu Traditional Villages Association, told Tiền Phong (Vanguard) newspaper that over the past 20 years, more and more foreign enterprises have invested in the village.
Now about 30 enterprises from Japan and South Korea are working there.
Hurt by the sight of plastic waste invading coral reefs, one man has taken on the risky task of clearing it.
Over the past eight years, Dao Dang Cong Trung, 40, has spent most of his spare time collecting trash along roads leading to Son Tra Peninsula in Da Nang.
A training course of solid waste sorting opens on the Chàm Islands, off the coast of Hội An city. The Islands began a plastic waste monitoring programme. — VNS Photo Công Thành
Hoài Nam
CHÀM ISLANDS — The Chàm Islands’ Marine Protected Area (MPA) management board, in co-operation with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), has launched a new garbage sorting programme as part of efforts to reduce plastic waste in Việt Nam.
The project is one of 12 nationwide that IUCN and Greenhub – an NGO working in waste management – have implemented to support the community in classifying waste. Tiếp tục đọc “Islands to eliminate plastic waste”→
NN – 04/04/2019, 09:20 (GMT+7) Chục năm trở lại đây, những dòng sông khắp các tỉnh miền núi phía Bắc: Sông Hồng, sông Chảy, ngòi Thia, ngòi Hút và các con suối Nậm Mu, Nậm Kim, Nậm Mả, Nậm Rạng…đang quằn quoại chết dần chết mòn vì thủy điện, khai thác cát sỏi và rác thải…
Sông Hồng đoạn từ ngã ba Việt Trì ngược lên Lào Cai mùa này cạn kiệt, nhiều đoạn người ta có thể xắn quần lội qua. Nhiều khúc sông các doi cát cao như núi do các tàu hút cát sỏi và đào vàng thải ra ngổn ngang những gò đống như vừa trải qua trận hủy diệt bằng bom B52.
Những đống sỏi thải trên sông Hồng do “cát tặc” để lại
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