Vietnam has been running waste treatment facilities being built by Japanese investors or using Japan’s technologies. The capital city of Hanoi has installed a semi-aerobic landfill system which adapts the world-renowned Fukuoka Method that can treat more than 100 tons of households waste per day. The city plans to expand the model to other parts of the city in the future. Meanwhile, Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) has worked with the Ministry of Construction (MoC) to build a waste treatment plant in the northern province of Ha Nam.
At a meeting on June 13 between the MoC’s Deputy Minister Nguyen Tran Nam and Ichiro Tsubota, head of the organization’s Energy Saving Technology Department, NEDO said it would invest more in this field to raise waste treatment capacity in the capital city of Hanoi where discharges more than 5,000 tons of waste per day but up to 80% of them is buried. Earlier, NEDO has invested in a heat recovery project in Ha Tien Cement Plant in the southern province of Kien Giang. Vietnam has low waste treatment capacity and the country has been seeking to use eco-friendly equipment in this field by adapting technologies from Japan. (Dau Tu – Investment June 16 p2)
