Ho Chi Minh Metropolis’s Division of Pure Assets and Surroundings, Division of Trade and Commerce and the US Company for Worldwide Growth (USAID) collectively organised a convention on know-how and finance for waste-to-energy tasks on April 11.
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| Can Tho waste-to-energy plant in Thoi Lai district (Picture: moit.gov.vn) |
Talking on the occasion, Deputy Director of the Division of Pure Assets and Surroundings Nguyen Thi Thanh My mentioned that presently, about 10,000-10,500 tonnes of home waste is discharged day by day within the metropolis.
As much as 69% of the waste is dumped at landfills, producing vital sources of greenhouse fuel emissions within the metropolis.
She mentioned town has coordinated with USAID to implement a undertaking to assist and promote the event of renewable power in addition to power effectivity to cut back greenhouse fuel emissions, demonstrating a standard duty to the worldwide neighborhood.
The town has focused that 80% of the home waste can be handled by trendy new know-how by 2025 and 100% by 2030.
Le Van Tam, Deputy Director of the Vietnam Institute of Tropical Know-how and Environmental Safety, mentioned that Vietnam presently has about 20 waste-to-power tasks. Nevertheless, solely three factories have been put into operation. Within the southern area, solely Can Tho metropolis has a waste-to-power plant in Thoi Lai district with a capability of about 400 tonnes per day whereas Ho Chi Minh Metropolis has 5 such tasks however one has suspended operation and one other one has been delayed for years attributable to authorized points.
Tam added that the delay within the development of waste-to-power vegetation will result in the reliance on waste remedy by landfill, which pollutes the surroundings, wastes assets, and will increase greenhouse fuel emissions.
As well as, policy-relating boundaries make it tough for waste-to-power plant tasks to draw buyers attributable to their low effectivity. These tasks run at solely about 20-25% effectivity, which is far worse than funding in thermal energy vegetation (from 40 – 42%). In the meantime, the funding value of a waste-to-power plant could be very massive and it takes 10-20 years to get the funding again.
On the convention, individuals additionally identified the shortcomings of assist insurance policies for energy generated from waste. They proposed revising authorized rules and procedures within the subject and constructing a carbon credit score mechanism.