National strategy on solid waste management revisedDeputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has signed a decision approving revisions to the national strategy on solid waste management to 2025 with a vision to 2050. Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has signed a decision approving revisions to the national strategy on solid waste management to 2025 with a vision to 2050The revised strategy sets the goal to collect, transport and treat 100 percent of harmful solid waste generated from production, business, service activities, medical establishments and trade villages, and 85 percent of harmful solid waste discharged by households by 2025. Control over harmful solid waste will be tightened from the discharge to collection and treatment under the strategy. Priority will be given to developing large-scale treatment facilities using modern technology along with specialised processing facilities for harmful solid waste. The treatment of harmful solid waste in the form of burial or incineration will be reduced while recycling is encouraged.

Source: VietNamNet News May 11, 2018 04:41 UTC