Construction, environmental protection

Participating in collecting waste, cleaning the environment, beautifying the landscape and local appearance is a practical action to protect the environment that Mr. Nguyen Van Trung (right, Hamlet 5, Lac Tan Commune, Tan Tru District) and the people in the hamlet carry out.

Let's work together

According to Deputy Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment (DONRE) - Nguyen Tan Thuan, the management and environmental protection work has been carried out with attention by leaders from the province to the grassroots. The Department coordinates with localities, associations, unions, and units to deploy a number of practical and realistic models and methods,... contributing to raising people's awareness, spreading and calling on the community to join hands in building and protecting the environment. Thereby, helping to preserve the environment, improve the appearance and landscape of the locality, and improve the quality of life of the people.

In Tan Tru district, in addition to propagating and disseminating regulations on environmental protection, the district has also launched many models, promoting effectiveness and spreading deeply and widely. Thanks to that, the appearance and landscape in the area are greener, cleaner, more beautiful and more livable. Mr. Nguyen Van Trung (Hamlet 5, Lac Tan Commune, Tan Tru District) said: "The propaganda information and good models of the locality have contributed to changing people's awareness. I think we must take practical actions and set an example to work with the locality to build an environmental landscape. Currently, the environment in residential areas, hamlets and villages is clean, and everyone is excited."

After successfully implementing the model of waste classification (urban areas) in Tan An City, the province is currently coordinating with the World Wildlife Fund in Vietnam (WWF) to continue to pilot the model of Waste classification at source, solid waste generated from households and individuals in rural areas in Thai Tri commune and Vinh Hung town, Vinh Hung district. Through evaluation, the model has initially brought about effectiveness and positive signals in waste classification as well as management and environmental protection in Vinh Hung district in particular and the province in general.

According to Vice Chairman of Vinh Hung District People's Committee - Vo Van Bao, domestic solid waste is divided into 3 types, including: Organic waste that is easily decomposable; waste that can be reused and recycled; remaining waste. After a period of implementation, the model has achieved many positive results in environmental protection such as reducing about 15% of plastic waste released into the environment due to expanding the waste collection and treatment system; mobilizing about 60-70% of households to participate in sorting waste to achieve good quality, some households have self-processed organic waste into compost for household farming purposes; reducing about 40-45% of the amount of waste that needs to be buried (including organic waste and recyclable waste).

The source of organic waste centrally treated in Vinh Hung town from August to December 2023 is 1,368 tons, creating 164 tons of compost. In addition, the model has created a strong change in people's awareness of classifying domestic solid waste at the source; forming the habit of classifying domestic solid waste; creating a sense of self-consciousness in classifying domestic solid waste at the source. Cadres, party members, civil servants, state employees, and socio- political organizations are exemplary in complying and implementing. The model also helps reduce the cost of classifying and treating waste at the factory; taking advantage of recycled waste and organic waste as raw materials for the next production processes.

"The district hopes that all levels will continue to pay attention and provide financial support to help Vinh Hung maintain the waste classification model at source currently being implemented in Vinh Hung town, Thai Tri commune and create conditions to replicate the model to other communes in the district," Mr. Vo Van Bao suggested.

Many practical solutions to protect the environment

Mr. Nguyen Tan Thuan informed: The Department regularly coordinates with departments, branches, localities, and units to organize measures and solutions to improve the effectiveness of state management, contributing to the construction and protection of the environment in the area. Recently, the province has basically had no hot spots of environmental pollution.

The Department of Staff of the Provincial People's Committee issued regulations on the collection and transportation of domestic solid waste in the province. In particular, it specifically regulates the classification of domestic solid waste; collection points, domestic solid waste transfer stations; routes, time and means of collection and transportation of domestic solid waste; frequency and location of collection and transportation of domestic solid waste; responsibilities of the People's Committees at district and commune levels in the management of domestic solid waste. Currently, in the province, the collection and treatment of urban waste reaches 100%; the collection and treatment of rural waste reaches 75%.

People in Vinh Hung town, Vinh Hung district classify waste at source, contributing to reducing the amount of waste.

Environmental issues in production activities are also concerned and strictly controlled. The Department of Natural Resources and Environment requires units to comply with and strictly implement legal regulations on environmental protection, and to promote their roles and responsibilities in this issue. The whole province has 40 industrial parks and clusters operating with centralized wastewater treatment systems and treating them to meet standards before discharging them into receiving sources; 44 enterprises with large waste sources have installed automatic wastewater and emission monitoring stations that transmit to the Department of Natural Resources and Environment's Central Station to monitor, manage and supervise the quality of wastewater and emissions discharged by enterprises into the environment to promptly request enterprises to correct cases that exceed standards.

In addition, the province also invested in 6 monitoring stations in Duc Hoa, Ben Luc districts and Kien Tuong town. Automatic surface water and air monitoring stations are periodically maintained to ensure stable operation, thanks to which the Department of Natural Resources and Environment collects, monitors and supervises environmental quality in places strongly affected by socio-economic development activities to serve as a basis for proposing measures to ensure the quality of water sources on rivers and maintain protection of the surrounding air.

In the coming time, in the field of construction and environmental protection, the Department will continue to maintain the measures and solutions that have been implemented; continue to deploy and apply the Law on Environmental Protection 2020; coordinate with localities in the work of classifying domestic solid waste at source, implementing a number of effective and practical environmental protection models; call for investment in domestic solid waste treatment plants in the province; strengthen monitoring work to promptly detect and have solutions to prevent pollution in the province;.../.

Chau Son

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