The VND1.50-trillion project, which will be carried out by Amacco Group, is expected to operate from 2026 with a daily capacity of 650 tonnes of rubbish.
According to the Ben Tre Provincial People's Committee, they've been trying to deal with the pollution at An Hiep dumping ground.
"We've fixed the walls to prevent wastewater from flowing into surrounding areas," the committee said. "We've also installed fences and covered the rubbish using plastic tarps."
The committee is considering building a wastewater treatment system with a capacity of 30 cubic metres per day and an incinerator with capacity of 48 tonnes per day.
Many roads in Ben Tre have faced serious pollution over the past 20 days due to a rising amount of rubbish since local people blocked ways to the An Hiep Dumping Ground which has already been overloaded.
Ben Tre Provincial People's Committee on July 23 alerted an urgent environmental issue at An Hiep dumping ground.
The dump has received household waste from Ba Tri District for the past 13 years. Since the Ben Tre Waste Treatment Plant closed last October for causing pollution, more rubbish from Chau Thanh District and Ben Tre City has been taken to An Hiep for burying, with an estimated amount of over 200 tonnes per day.
The huge amount of rubbish has overloaded the dump while its facilities have already deteriorated. More wastewater from the dump has leaked outside, seriously affecting the surrounding environment. Some 132 households who live within a kilometre of the dump have complained about the serious pollution and blocked vehicles from transporting more rubbish to the dump over the past 20 days.
Statistics from Ben Tre Provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment showed that in 2022, the whole province generated over 1,000 tonnes of rubbish daily of which only 420 tonnes were collected for treatment.
Ben Tre targets to collect 95 percent of rubbish in urban areas and 80 percent in rural areas by 2025.
