Southern economic zone needs common toxic waste site
Representatives of the region’s industrial zone authorities agreed at a recent conference on environmental issues organized in Lam Dong Province that it was necessary to construct such a site for treatment of harmful waste to prevent environmental pollution.
According to the authorities of the most developed economic zones in Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Binh Duong, Binh Phuoc, Binh Thuan, Dong Nai, Lam Dong, Long An, Tay Ninh, Tien Giang and HCMC, the treatment capacity in each province is still small. The common place for hazardous-waste treatment will help prevent an environmental disaster, such as underground water pollution and dangers to people’s health, they said.
By March 31, the southern key economic zone had had some 120 industrial parks and export processing zones home to over 4,000 projects.
Ngo Anh Tuan, vice head of the HCMC Export Processing and Industrial Zones Authority (Hepza), supported the idea of building the common complex, saying most of the representatives of the industrial zones authorities of the region had blamed enterprises on their little awareness of environmental pollution caused by toxic waste.
He said some enterprises at the export processing zones and industrial zones in the city still had large amounts of industrial waste untreated because the HCMC Urban Environment Company and others had been overwhelmed with the huge amount of waste emissions, nearly 500 tons a day.
