This is part of the city’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment’s report sent to municipal authorities.
A dumping ground turned into a park in HCM City (Photo by Lao Dong)
Last year, nearly 2,200 new dustbins were installed across the city, raising the city’s total number of public dustbins on roads to 42,250. However, some of these dustbins have been damaged or stolen, the report said.
The city also installed an additional 4,800 surveillance cameras in public places in 2022, bringing the total CCTV in the city to 45,400.
The city has converted 243 dumping sites into parks and vegetable gardens. Recently, the Women’s Union of Cat Lai Ward in Thu Duc City co-operated and coordinated with the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and residents to transform a 1,000-square-metre landfill into a vegetable garden.
A representative from the Women’s Union of Cat Lai Ward said that roughly 400-500 kilos of vegetables could be picked from the garden monthly. The vegetables are sold to kindergartens and households in the ward. The revenues from the garden are used to help poor people.
