02-06-14
Recently there were some small environmental improvements in and around Hoi An.
On An bang Beach, the government placed sign and waste baskets to keep the beach clean.
In Tra Que a 'Waste Collection Station' is built. Here plastic waste containers can be stored and the walls around it prevent waste to be blown away in the surrounding waters and agricultural area's.
May 2013
The new built Lighthouse on Cua Dai Beach is provided with an 'off grit stand alone installation' which powers the lights in the Lighthouse.
The installation consists out off 6 solar panels, 6 batteries, a charge controler and some additional electric equipment! We hope solar will be huge in the future in Vietnam!
The government took some new initiative and placed all around town - Hoi An - new waste bins. One for organic and one for inorganic waste!
February 2013. The government in Hoi An is working hard to get more public awareness about separate collecting waste. There are now information signs on garbage trucks to inform the citizens from Hoi An.
The Government also placed more rubbish along many streets in Hoi An.
Another new comer is the public toilet building along Hai Bai Trung close to the old quarter!
November 2012
An article about Japanese volunteers helping the government off Hoi An to 'build' a green city!
Click on: Building a 'Green City'
The first plastic waste processing plant in Vietnam is the Khanh Son factory in the central city of Danang. In the first phase of operation, the factory is specialized in processing plastic waste into oil. In the second phase, it will process waste into unburned bricks and biological coal. The first phase completed on April 20, 2012, processing plastic waste into industrial oil. This factory receives 650 tons of rubbish a day, including 8 percent of plastic bags.
Recently there were some small environmental improvements in and around Hoi An.
On An bang Beach, the government placed sign and waste baskets to keep the beach clean.
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| An Bang Beach. |
In Tra Que a 'Waste Collection Station' is built. Here plastic waste containers can be stored and the walls around it prevent waste to be blown away in the surrounding waters and agricultural area's.
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| Waste Container area, Tra Que. |
May 2013
The new built Lighthouse on Cua Dai Beach is provided with an 'off grit stand alone installation' which powers the lights in the Lighthouse.
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| The Lighthouse at Cua Dai Beach! |
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| 6 Solar panels on the Lighthouse, Hoi An! |
The government took some new initiative and placed all around town - Hoi An - new waste bins. One for organic and one for inorganic waste!
February 2013. The government in Hoi An is working hard to get more public awareness about separate collecting waste. There are now information signs on garbage trucks to inform the citizens from Hoi An.
Another new comer is the public toilet building along Hai Bai Trung close to the old quarter!
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| Toilet building along Hai Bai Trung |
An article about Japanese volunteers helping the government off Hoi An to 'build' a green city!
Click on: Building a 'Green City'
The first plastic waste processing plant in Vietnam is the Khanh Son factory in the central city of Danang. In the first phase of operation, the factory is specialized in processing plastic waste into oil. In the second phase, it will process waste into unburned bricks and biological coal. The first phase completed on April 20, 2012, processing plastic waste into industrial oil. This factory receives 650 tons of rubbish a day, including 8 percent of plastic bags.
On the 17th of Augustus 2011 a pilot initiative to develop Hoi An town into an eco-town kicked off yesterday in the central
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| Harbor of Hoi An |
The pilot also looks into solutions for improved delivery of energy and environmental services, based on the internationally acclaimed ‘eco-town’ model. Green industry opportunities, in particular for combined implementation of Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production and Corporate Social Responsibility, will be identified and promoted for implementation through on-site assessments in selected hotels and restaurants and their supply chain and dissemination of results and experiences. Moreover, policy support will focus on review, synthesis and strengthening of eco-town and related environment and energy policies in Hoi An, and capacity building on eco-town planning for local government of Hoi An, Quang Nam Province
Hoi An builds its first solid waste treatment plant
HOI AN — Hoi An, a World Heritage Site, opened its first solid waste treatment plant yesterday.The plant, in Bau Oc Thuong hamlet in Cam Ha Commune, was built at a cost of VND77 billion (US$3.7 million), most of which coming in the form of ODA credit from the French Government. It will be able to treat 55 tonnes of solid waste daily.
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| Selecting Waste! |
Nguyen Van Dung, vice chairman of the Hoi An City People’s Committee, said the plant would significantly reduce the amount of rubbish accumulating in a natural landfill about 3km from the town centre.
Rubbish collected from households, hotels and restaurants in the town was previously dumped in the natural landfill, which is already full and contaminating the environment.
Dung said the landfill was opened in 1993 to satisfy the town’s disposal needs. At the time it was more than a kilometre from residential areas. Now the nearest houses are a mere 200 metres away as demand for accommodation and farming land has increased significantly in Cam Ha Commune, he said.
Local resident Phan Thi Phuong said she and her family had to buy bottled water to drink because well water stank.
Nguyen Nhu Muoi, chairman of the Cam Ha Commune People’s Committee, said the landfill was seriously affecting the health of about 1,000 of the commune’s 1,600 households and that it had been responsible for outbreaks of petechial fever and cholera.
At the new plant, rubbish will be classified into two main categories – organic and inorganic. Biodegradable rubbish will be composted to serve agriculture, while inorganic waste will be recycled. The remainder, if non-polluting, will be dumped in the landfill.
Another plant for hospital waste will open at the end of this year. Meanwhile, another solid waste treatment facility and a network to collect rubbish will be completed in 2012.
Raphael Nguyen, director of Vinci Construction Grands Projects, said the plants would improve the quality of life for the people of Hoi An and protect the ecological environment.
About 82 tonnes of rubbish are discharged daily by households, hotels and restaurants in Hoi An, according to the Natural Resources and Environment Bureau.
Only between 60-65 per cent of the rubbish currently goes in the landfill, the rest is recycled by families and used as fertiliser.
According to the Hoi An Trade and Tourism Bureau, tourism and related activities accounted for more than 70 per cent of the city’s gross domestic product last year. The total number of visitors to Hoi An was about 3.5 million – an average year-on-year increase of 11 per cent between 2006-10.
In addition, the Project also introduces the trial and evaluation of three specific pilots for scaling up and mainstreaming green industry concepts and practices. These pilots pertain to steel sector through benchmarking and technology road mapping for Electric Arc Furnaces, in cooperation with MOIT and Vietnam Steel Association; the city of Hoi An through eco-town development, in cooperation with the Hoi An People’s Committee and Quang Nam Province; and the crafts villages by investing in model systems for waste and resource recovery and sustainable crafts production, in cooperation with the Waste Management and Environmental Protection Authority, Vietnam Environmental Administration.
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| This generation will inherit our behavior! |
Another project from the local government of Hoi An is the development of a waste water plant and sewage system. A lot of work is done already especially in the old town of Hoi An! Swage pipes and pits are build!
Hoi An under construction!
A dark Secret
Japanese experts take a water sample from the polluted waters at the Japanese bridge.
The Japanese bridge is featured on national banknotes, so widespread
is its fame, but it surrounded by a darker secret.
One day recently,
Yasuaki Maeda, a professor from the Graduate School of Engineering at
Osaka Prefecture University and a JICA expert and volunteer Eriko
Matsumoto took water samples from the sludgy creek underneath the
bridge.
After testing them for various pollutants such as ammonia and carbon
dioxide Maeda showed the results to the recent seminar. “Look at these
colors, red and blues,” he said pointing to the tested water samples.
“They are beautiful colors. But they are dangerous colors. They signify
high levels of pollution from everything from cooking waste, detergents
and toilet waste dumped straight into the water.”
He added, “People don’t even realize how polluted the river is.
There is no monitoring system here. This is a wake up call. It is
becoming a race against time”
A Vietnamese speaker agreed: “This is a dying river,” he said,
“unless we can solve the pollution problem. At least 50 percent of
waste water is being discharged untreated. We need immediate solutions.
Even nearby rice paddies are being affected.”
A waste management plant has been on the drawing board for years but
has yet to be built. There are environmental laws but they are
sometimes ignored.
Well know all over Vietnam but specially are the 'musical' garbage trucks. In Hoi An waste gets collected 3 times a week and makes Hoi An one off the cleanest towns in Vietnam!
Waste bins are shattered all over Hoi An and in the future there will be more!
Waste bins in the old town!
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| Hoi An under construction! |
Japanese experts take a water sample from the polluted waters at the Japanese bridge.
After testing them for various pollutants such as ammonia and carbon
dioxide Maeda showed the results to the recent seminar. “Look at these
colors, red and blues,” he said pointing to the tested water samples.
“They are beautiful colors. But they are dangerous colors. They signify
high levels of pollution from everything from cooking waste, detergents
and toilet waste dumped straight into the water.”
He added, “People don’t even realize how polluted the river is.
There is no monitoring system here. This is a wake up call. It is
becoming a race against time”
A Vietnamese speaker agreed: “This is a dying river,” he said,
“unless we can solve the pollution problem. At least 50 percent of
waste water is being discharged untreated. We need immediate solutions.
Even nearby rice paddies are being affected.”
A waste management plant has been on the drawing board for years but
has yet to be built. There are environmental laws but they are
sometimes ignored.
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| Waste bins in the old town! |
