Septic Tank Sludge Treatment Plant in Cau Dien

Trial test for septic tank sludge treatment plant in Cau Dien has been started since this week by Hanoi URENCO.
The operation is supposed to be launched after 1 month.

Visit to Business Entities in Hue

We visited some business entities for promotion of 3R activities at generation sources, focusing on survey of current situation at school, hospital, hotel and supermarket in Hue.

 Canteen at Nguyen Tri Phuong Secondary School

 Hue General Hospital

  Park View Hotel

 Daily collection at Hotel

 Waste sorting at Hotel

Battery collection at Big C Supermarket

Construction waste transfer station in Hanoi

Hanoi URENCO is currently operating 3 construction waste transfer stations in main 4 Districts of Hanoi.

During our 15 minutes stay in one transfer station of Hai Ba Trung District, 2 handbarrows and 1 motorbike came to bring about 6 construction waste bags respectively.

However, these transfer stations in Hanoi seem to disappear in the near future due to increase of urbanization.

Dong Da District

Hai Ba Trung District

Construction waste landfill sites in Ha Noi

Visited 2 construction waste landfill sites in Hanoi, Van Noi landfill - Dong Anh and Vinh Quynh landfill - Van Dien.

Van Noi landfill with the capacity of 90 ha is operated since Nov, 2007 and currently remains the capacity of 20 ha. Since June 2009, construction waste transported to Van Noi landfill is identified by weigh bridge. 

Vinh Quynh landfill is operated since April 2010, with the capacity of 55 ha and currently remains 10.8 ha.

Internal Opinion Exchange Meeting

This meeting was held to share the progresses of each task forces, contribute to other task forces by exchanging opinions, and review solutions by external comments. Prof. Yoshifumi Fujii attended this meeting as a project advisory.

 Presentation from MOC

 Presentation from Hanoi

Presentation from Thua Thien Hue Province

Soc Son complex site

Soc Son complex site in the north area of Hanoi is now facing urgent issue, that is, landfill site of Phase I (83ha) will be completed by the end of this year. 

Landfill site of Phase II (30 ha, 6 cells)

Leach of waste water

Outlets of leachate and storm water drainage

Source separation survey in Hanoi

Source separation survey in Hanoi has been conducted on 16-23 Aug, 2014 by Dr. Kosuke Kawai, project advisory, and some volunteers from National University of Civil Engineering. 

We also joined in the survey to review 3R project from 2006 to 2009.  

The second Taskforce Meeting in Hue.

Workshop on 11th August 2014

Workshop on integrated solid waste management in Vietnam was held at Pullman hotel, Hanoi on 11th August, 2014. 15 representatives made presentations and about 150 participants attended this workshop for sharing issues to be solved integrated solid waste management in Vietnam. 

The workshop was opened by Ms. Phan Thi My Linh, Vice Minister of Ministry of Construction in Vietnam and Senior Representative from JICA Vietnam. 

Ms. Phan Thi My linh, Vice Minister of Ministry of Construction

Mr. Tadashi Suzuki, Senior Representative of JICA Vietnam

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Hong Tien, Director of Administration of Technical Infrastructure, MOC subsequently presented overall about solid waste management in Vietnam.  

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Hong Tien, Director of ATI, MOC

Mr. Pham Ngoc Hai, President of Hanoi URENCO also presented current situation of solid waste management in Hanoi, especially focused on Nam Son complex site.

Mr. Pham Ngoc Hai, President of Hanoi URENCO

Mr. Hideki Wada, the team leader of this project introduced Japanese Solid Waste Management system and gave some messages about how to work master plan effectively in Vietnam.

Mr. Hideki Wada

Workshop on Integrated Solid Waste Management in Vietnam

Workshop on integrated solid waste management in Vietnam, co-hosted by MOC and JICA Vietnam will be held on 11th August, 2014 at Pullman hotel, Hanoi.
Please see agenda for the workshop here. 

Task force meeting with Hanoi DOC and Hanoi URENCO

4th task force meeting with Hanoi DOC and Hanoi URENCO was held at URENCO HQ.

Hanoi URENCO presented the current situation and challenges of septic tank sludge management, and Hanoi DOC also presented the master plan of septic tank sludge in Hanoi. 

Project team introduced the structure and management system of septic tank sludge in Japan.

News in the meeting with Thua Thien Hue PPC

Our project was introduced here in the news of Thua Thien Hue website.

Visit to HUE selected as a model province

We visited Hue selected as a model province in JCC with Dr. Mitsuo Yoshida, Senior Advisor of JICA and discussed the current situations about solid waste management in Hue, difficulties and the future plan.

Meeting with Hue DOC 

These 3 pictures are Tam Sinh Nghia composting plant which has been operated for 8 years, and Thuy Phuong landfill site.

Tam Sinh Nghia complex site

Incinerator in the composting facility

Thuy Phuong landfill (existing site)

This picture is Phu Son new complex which is under construction. 

Phu Son new complex

The First Joint Coordinating Committee

The first Joint Coordinating Committee (JCC) was held on July 8, 2014, chaired by Mr. Nguyen Hong Tien, General Director of Administration of Technical Infrastructure Division, Ministry of Construction. Here is news in MOC website. 

Gia Lam District

Yesterday we visited Gia Lam District to see the candidate site for a SWM complex in Phu Dong and the Kieu Ky SWM complex.

  Phu Dong planning site

Composting plant in Kieu Ky SWM complex

Xuan Son solid waste treatment facility

Yesterday we visited a complex site, Xuan Son solid waste treatment facility, which is one of 16 proposed facilities in Hanoi Master Plan.

Thang Long Environment Services Joint Stock Company is currently operating an incinerator with the capacity of 300t/day (refer to pictures), and new incinerators with heat energy recovery and total capacity of 400t/day are supposed to be constructed in the next stage. 

    Pit & crane

Sorting and drying

Incinerator

Project members

We are introducing the some core Japanese members of the project here.

First task force meeting with MOC, DOC and Hanoi URENCO

This project has 5 task forces;
1) Policy Central (PC) 
2) Facility Central (FC)
3) Policy Hanoi (PH) 
4) Facility Hanoi (FH) 
5) Policy Model city (PM)

The first meeting was jointly held for PC and FC with MOC on 14th May and also for PH and FH with DOC and Hanoi URENCO today. It will be held once a week or 2 weeks continuously. 

First task force meeting with MOC

First task force meeting with DOC and URENCO

Project office opened in Hanoi

JICA Expert Team for "Vietnam Waste Project" has started working in Hanoi since April. 

Please feel free to contact us.

Address: UNIT C1, 7th floor, CDC Building, 25 Le Dai Hanh, Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi, Vietnam

Tel: +84 4 3974 1712
E-mail: vietnamwastepj@gmail.com