Quang Tri: Increase the practicality of domestic waste management

Aware of environmental preservation and critical concerns, Quang Tri province has adopted several waste management solutions in recent years, resulting in favourable outcomes that contribute to the province's long-term socio-economic growth.

Mr. Ha Sy Dong - Vice Chairman of Quang Tri Provincial People's Committee, said: Currently, the implementation of establishing a domestic solid waste collection and treatment system in the entire province is very effective, in urban areas reaching 90%, in rural areas reaching over 60%. All cities, districts, towns, and 10 administrative units in the area have hygienic landfills and invest in domestic waste incinerators.

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To achieve its set goals, the province has recently published detailed programs and action plans that are tailored to the local practical situation based on national policies and orientations.

In particular, the province has planned socio-economic growth from 2021 to 2030, with the target of 2050 for domestic waste collection and treatment, as well as plans for separating waste at the source and improvement. The quality of the domestic waste treatment system, as well as plastic trash.

The province has also implemented a number of effective models for collecting, treating, recycling, and limiting plastic waste, such as the model for combating plastic waste on Con Co Island and the model for limiting the use of plastic bags.

Based on these ideas, the province conducts an annual evaluation, learns from experience, communicates, stimulates, and encourages groups and unions to actively respond successfully.

Furthermore, in terms of procedures, cities are always looking for new financing sources, supporting businesses that recycle inputs, and launching trash treatment programs. Snakes are alive. To successfully implement the national target program for building new rural areas, among the proposed criteria for communes to meet new rural and advanced rural standards, there must be specific environmental criteria so that people gradually raise awareness and responsibility for collecting waste in the house, garden, and products, ensuring environmental safety and hygiene.

According to a report by Mr Ha Sy Dong, Quang Tri province is now investing in a waste treatment facility equipped with cutting-edge technology for recycling and processing domestic solid waste into organic sources for raw material manufacturing. Fertiliser: Burn and destroy to release energy for development. The initiative will be implemented in 2025 to collect and recycle more than 90% of plastic waste from supermarkets and shopping malls.

From 2025 to 2030, the province sets a roadmap to treat household solid waste by landfilling to less than 30%. It focuses on treating waste in treatment zones with scale and technology appropriate to the province's situation. Locality, in which priority is given to applying recycling and energy recovery technology.

Addressing plastic waste, the province will continue to educate authorities, civil servants, public employees, and workers in agencies, units, social organisations, residential communities, and companies about the anti-waste campaign. Limit plastic waste consumption and release into the environment; encourage the adoption of eco-friendly items.

Source: MONRE