According to the Directorate General of Environment, most of the waste is disposed of by landfill methods. If waste is disposed of properly, Vietnam will save huge energy resources.
According to environmental experts, turning waste into electricity is no stranger to countries around the world. In recent years, energy from waste has been recognized and many countries around the world consider waste as a resource, an alternative energy source. Countries in the region such as Thailand, Myanmar, Singapore, Japan, waste disposal is a developed, profitable industry. This industry not only creates raw materials to produce electricity, but also saves a lot of resources through the recycling of paper, metals, plastics ...
According to environmental experts, there are many ways to turn waste into clean energy such as using non-incineration technology that is a world trend. The advantages of this technology are to promote high efficiency for infectious wastes, low operating costs, no secondary environmental pollution; can be used on a small scale, or on a large scale. This non-incineration technology can be used to treat the entire waste in Hanoi.
In some provinces and cities such as Bac Giang, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City, Mekong Delta provinces ... has invested in domestic solid waste treatment plants, built factories to process domestic solid waste into bio-organic fertilizer (compost), biogas (biogas).
