Foreign investors interested in waste treatment in HCM City
Several Finnish businesses have expressed their desire to work with Vietnam Waste Solutions Co., Ltd. (VWS) in converting waste into renewable energy during their recent trip to VWS’s Ho Chi Minh City-based Da Phuoc waste treatment complex.
Representatives of the Finnish businesses (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Several Finnish businesseshave expressed their desire to work with Vietnam Waste Solutions Co., Ltd.(VWS) in converting waste into renewable energy during their recent trip to VWS’sHo Chi Minh City-based Da Phuoc waste treatment complex.
Petri Peltonen, Finnish Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs and Employment,said he believes that collaboration will help produce more solutions to treatwaste and create renewable energy, meeting sustainable development requirements.
He noted that as a big and populous city, HCM City needs more cutting-edgetechnologies to facilitate waste treatment and renewable energy creation.
The Finnish firms were interested in advanced technologies used in the complex,which handles up to 5,000 tonnes of waste a day.
Kevin Moore, VWS Managing Director, said the companyplans to treat unsorted waste that contains impurities in order to collectorganic waste. This waste will be processed at an incineration plant with anoutput of 1,000-1,500 tonnes per day. Only the leftover after incineration(about 5 percent of the mixed waste) will be buried in landfills.
VWS will build transfer stations thatlink the Da Phuoc waste treatment complex in the city with the Green TechnologyPark, also invested by the company in the southern province of Long An, using bargesthat form a closed system. The project is scheduled to be completed by 2020.
Recently, 42 experts from the Korea Association of Waste to EnergyTechnology (KAWET) also visited the Da Phuoc wastetreatment complex.
Yongseung Yun, KAWET President, said the visit will serve as a basis for themto study, evaluate and plan for investment in the environmental sector inVietnam, especially in waste treatment.-VNA
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Representatives of the Finnish businesses (Source: VNA) 
