Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently approved a VND535 billion (US$23 million) programme to wipe out utility enterprises seriously polluting the environment by 2020.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently approved a VND535 billion (US$23 million) programme to wipe out utility enterprises seriously polluting the environment by 2020.
The goal of the programme, which will be run by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, is to eliminate environment pollution at 30 garbage dumps and unhygienic landfills nationwide.
In addition, discarded medicine, pesticides and packages at 70 other seriously polluted places will be collected and destroyed.
Three wastewater treatment facilities will also be built to treat wastewater that is being directly discharged into the Nhue - Day rivers, the Cau River and the Dong Nai River.
(Source:VNS)
