LookAtVietnam – HCM City is building seven waste treatment plants with an estimated daily capacity of 6,000 tonnes of rubbish that will be operational in the next few years,

Rubbish is being transported to a waste disposal plant, similar to the ones HCM City plans to build.

Vietstar Company is building another compost plant capable of treating 600 tonnes daily.

The company will begin to collect rubbish next year to test the facility before opening it as soon as possible.

Tam Sinh Nghia Company Ltd. is building a micro-organic fertiliser processing factory with a daily capacity of 1,000 tonnes that will open in 2011.

Thanh Cong Company’s solid waste processing factory will have a capacity of 500 tonnes when it begins functioning in 2012.

The same year, another plant that can process 500 tonnes of rubbish every day, built by the city-owned HCM City Urban Environment Company and using Chinese technology, will be opened.

Singapore’s Keppel Seghers Engineering will generate electricity from waste when its plant is ready in 2014.

It will burn 1,000 to 2,000 tonnes of garbage daily.

The International Energy and Environment Corpora-tion’s will also build a facility that will utilise household solid waste to produce electricity. To come into operation in 2015 or 2016, it will also process 1,000-2,000 tonnes daily.

VietNamNet/Viet Nam News