Decision No. 2149/QD-TTg approving the national strategy for integrated management of solid waste up to 2025, with a vision to 2050

26 OFFICIAL GAZETTE Issue no10JDecember 2009 (Gong BaD nos 597-5981December 28, 2009) Part II. OTHER DOCUMENTS THE PRIME MINISTER Decision No.21491QD-TT~ of December 17,2009,Jlpproving the national strategy for integrated management of solid waste up to 2025, with a vision to 2050 THE PRIME MINISTER Pursuant to the December 25.2001 Law on Organization of the Government; Pursutmt to the November 29, 2005 Law on Environmental Protection; Pursuant to the November 26, 2003 Construction Law; Pursuant to the Government's DecreeNo. 59/ 2007/ND-CP of April 9, 2007, on solid waste management; At the proposal of the Minister of Construction and the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, DEClDES: Article 1. To approve the national strategy for integrated management of solid waste up to 2025. wah a vision to 2050, with the following principal Contents: 1. Viewpoints . Integrated management of solid waste is the common responsibility of the entire society in which the State plays the key role, boosts the socialization of, mobilizes to the utmost all resources for, and increases investment in this work. Integrated management of solid waste shall be performed in an inter-regional and inter sectoral manner, ensuring optimal economic and technical solutions, social and environmental safety and conformity with socio-economic development, construction and other development plannings, Integrated management uf solid waste is one of environmental protection priorities, making contributions to pollution control along the line of sustainable national development. Integrated management of solid waste must adhere to the principle "polluters must pay" under which organizations and individuals that discharge waste causing environmental pollution and degradation must pay to remedy and compensate damage under law. Solid waste management must be performed in an integrated manner to prevent and reduce arising waste at source, which is the top priority task, and to increasingly reuse and recycle waste to reduce the volume of waste to be buried. 2. Vision up to 2050 Tostrive that by 2050, aU arising solid waste will be collected, reused, recycled and thoroughly treated with advanced and environmentally friendly technologies appropriate to actual conditions of each locality. To mitigate the volume of solid waste to be buried. 3. Objectives aJ General objecti yes to 2025 To raise the effectiveness of integrated management of solid waste in order to improve environmental quality, assure community health and contribute to sustainable national development. To build a system of integrated management of solid waste under which solid waste will be © VIETNAM LAW & LEGAL FORUM Issue no10/December 2Q09 OFFICIAL GAZETTE (Gong Baanos 597·S98!December 28, 2(09) sorted at source, collected, reused, recycled and thoroughlytreatedwithadvancedandappropriate technologies to minimize the burial of waste, save land resources and mitigate environmental pollution. To manage and treat hazardous solid waste with appropriate methods. , To raise community awareness about integrated management of solid waste and develop an environmentallyfriendly lifestyle. To provide necessary infrastructure, financial and human resource conditions for integrated management of solid waste. bl Specific targets Up to 2015: + To collect and treat up to environmental standards 85% of daily-life solid waste in urban centers, 60% of which will be recycled. reused, recovered energy or used for organic fertilizer production. + To collect and treat 50% of construction solid waste in urbanareas, 30% of which will be recovered for reuse or recycling. + To collect and tIl:.at up to environmental standards 30% and 10% of antiseptic tank mud in urban centers of grade II or higher grade and in remaining urban centers, respectively. + To reduce by 40% the quantity of plastic bags used in supermarkets and trade centers from that of 2010. + To have solid waste recycling works which sort waste at householdsin 50% of urbancenters. + To collect and treat up to environmental standards 80% of non-hazardous industrial solid waste, 70% of which willbe recoveredfor reuse and recycling. +To treat up toenvironmentalstandards 60% of hazardous solid waste from industrial parks. + To collect and treat up to environmental standards 85% of non-hazardous and 70% of hazardous medical solid waste. + To collect and treat up to environmental standards 40% of solid waste in rural residential areas and 50% of solid waste in craft villages. +Totreat 100% of seriouslypollutinggarbage dumps under the Prime Minister's Decision No. 6412003/QD-rrg of April 22, 2003. Up to 2020: + To collect and treat up to environmental standards 90% of daily life solid waste in urban centers, 85% of which will be recycled, reused, recovered energy or used for organic fertilizer production. + To collect and treat 80% of construction solid waste in urban areas, 50% of which winbe recovered for reuse or recycling. + To collect and treat up to environmental standards 50% and 30% of antiseptic tank mud in urban centers of grade II or higher grade and in remaining urban centers, respectively. + To reduce by 65% the quantity of plastic bags used in supermarketsand trade centers from that of 2010. +To have solid waste recycling werks which sort wasteat householdsin 80% of urbancenters. + To collect and treat up to environmental standards90% of non-hazardous industrial solid waste, 75% of which will be recovered for reuse and recycling. +To treat up to environmental standards70% of hazardous solid waste from industrial parks. + To collect and treat up to environmental standards 100%of non-hazardousand hazardous hospital solid waste. +- To collect and treat up to environmental standards 70% of solid waste from rural residential areas and 80% of solid waste from © VIETNAM LAW &LEGAL FORUM 28 OFFICIAL GAZETTE Issue no10IDecember2009 (Gong Baonos 597-598/December 28, 2009) craft villages. Up to 2025: +To have solid waste recycling works which sort waste at households in all urban centers. + To collect and treat up to environmental standards 100% of daily life solid waste in urban centers. 90% of which will be recycled, reused, recovered energy or used for organic fertilizer production , + To collect and treat 90% of construction solid wastein urban areas, 60% of which will be recovered for reuse or recycling. + To collect and treat up to environmental standards 100% and 50%of antiseptic tank mud in urban centers of grade II or higher grade and in remaining urban centers, respectively. + To reduce by 85% the quantity of plastic bags used insupermarkets and trade centers from that of 2010. + To collect and treat up to environmental standards 100% ofnon-hazardous and hazardous industrial solid waste. + To collect and treat up to environmental standards 90% of solid waste from rural residential areas and 100% of solid waste from craft villages. 4. Basic tasks and solutions aJ Basic tasks To prevent and reduce arising solid waste: +To perform integrated management of solid waste under the market mechanism, (0 collect charges based on the volume of arising solid waste. + To increasingly reduce solid waste from daily life, production and service activities. + To closely control the import of scraps. To promote the sorting of solid waste at source: + To mobilize the community to sort solid waste at source. + To develop infrastructure, to collect and separately treat each type of sorted solid waste. To increase solid waste collection and transportation: +To raise the capacity to collect and transport solid waste. + To expand the solid waste collection network. + To boost the socialization of the collection and transportation of solid waste. To increase the reuse and recycling of solid waste: + To increasingly reuse solid waste. +To build and develop the waste market and economy. +To develop the recycling industry. + To promote the purchase of recycled products. + To elaborate and apply incentive policies for recycling activities. + To form recycling funds. To treat solid waste: + To complete mechanisms and policies related to solid waste treatment. + To apply advanced technologies for solid waste treatment, which restrict the burial of waste and are safe and appropriate to the conditions of each locality. To remedy the environment of solid waste treatment facilities: + To guide procedures and plans on environmental restoration. +To raise financial sources for environmental © VIETNAM LAW & LEGAL FORUM Issue no 10fDecember 2009 OFFICIAL GAZETTE (Cong Bao nos 597-S98/December 28,2009) restoration. hi Solution" for implementing the Strategy To complete legal documents, mechanisms and policies on solid waste management: + To promulgate incentive regulations and policies to reduce, reuse and recycle waste, especially to reduce the use of plastic bags and to recycle organic waste. + To complete regulations and mechanisms on environmental sanitation and protection charges for solid waste in order to recover waste collection and transportation expenses by 2020 and offset part of solid waste treatment expenses by 2025. + To guide state incentives for investment projects to build solid waste treatment facilities. + To promulgate regulations, mechanisms and guidance on the recovery of a number of waste and expired products under Article 67 of the Environmental Protection Law. +Topromulgate regulations and mechanisms to support and promote recycling activities and guide their implementation. + To promulgate regulations and standards on means of storing, collecting and transporting ordinary and hazardous solid waste: + To complete regulations and guide and control the performance of contracts on services to collect. transport and treat ordinary and hazardous solid waste. + To set standards on solid waste-treating equipment to assure ell vironmental and equipment life criteria. + To elaborate regulations on management of each form of recycling production from the stages of collection, storage to transportation and recycling. + To promulgate regulations on construction waste management. + To elaborate regulations on management of antiseptic tank mud. + To promulgate guiding documents on the implementation of solid waste projects under the clean development mechanism (CDM). + To promulgate technical instructions for recycling construction waste, and collecting and treating antiseptic tank mud and hazardous waste. + To supplement and set standards and technical regulations on landfills and works to treat ordinary and hazardous solid waste. + To promulgate technical instru etions for solid waste management planning. + To elaborate regulations on regular reporting on solid waste management and reporting norms. + To elaborate regulations on observation of solid waste data. + To promulgate regulatlons on commendation and sanctioning of violatiuns of the law on solid waste management + To promulgate regulations and guidelines on environmental protection and solid waste management applicable to each type of typical craft village. + To prescribe state management respon sibilities and mechanisms for solid waste management coordination among concerned ministries and branches and central and local levels. + To work out solid waste management mechanisms for state management agencies and providers of solid waste collection, transportation and treatment services. + To elaborate regulaliom on management © VIETNAM LAW & LEGAL FORUM 30 OFFICIAL GAZETTE Issue no10/December2009 (Gong Bao nos 597·5981December 28,2009) of inter-provincial solid waste treatment complexes and mechanisms for coordination among concerned localities. To plan solid waste management: + Tu elaborate aud implement a master plan to build solid waste treatment complexes for economic regions nationwide. + To elaborate and implement a master plan to manage solid waste of all cities and provinces nationwide. + To review the implementation of plannings on solid waste management in urban planning and rural residential areas. + To elaborate and implement a master plan to build solid waste treatment complexes at the ward and commune level and adopt measures to raise funds for its implementation. To establish a national solid waste database and an observation system of this database. +To conduct surveys and collect, analyze and evaluate data on solid waste nationwide. + To establish database systems at central and local levels (software development and training). +To elaborate and implement a plan to build a system of solid waste data observation stations nationwide. To develop resources for the Strategy implementation: +To raise investment capital from all sources for solid waste management, including state budget, the environment facility and domestic and foreign organizations and enterprises. + To form a solid waste recycling fund to support solid waste reduction and recycling. + To seek support from aDA sources or the sale of emissions when applying solid waste treatment technulogies under a cleaner mechanism (Kyoto protocol). + To train cadres from central to local levels to raise their capacity of solid waste management. To promote scientific research for integrated management of solid waste + To continue developing environment research institutions, to boost scientific research into solutions of integrated management of solid waste. To encourage the formation of research and development sections in enterprises to improve and design environmentally friendly and material and energy-saving products. To boost close and effective cooperation between research institutions and enterprises. +To increasingly study solid waste treatment technologies appropriate to Vietnam's conditions towards reuse, recycling and reduction to the utmost of the burial of solid waste. To increasingly study and improve solid waste recycling technologies in craft villages, to support the dissemination and application of these technologies to improve environmental quality and reduce adverse impacts on people's health. + To implement national- and ministerial level programs and projects to study policies, techniques and technologies for integrated management of solid waste and attach particular importance to increasingly applying scientific research findings to production and life. To raise awareness through dissemination and education +To work out and implement communication campaigns to raise public awareness at schools, conunuuities and business establishments, tu encourage community participation in at-source sorting, reduction, recycling and reuse of solid waste, and limit the use of plastic bags and disorderly dumping. + To introduce environmental education into educational programs at all levels with contents © VIETNAM LAW & LEGAL FORUM Issue no 10lDecember2009 OFFICIAL GAZETTE (Gong Baonos 597·598!December 28, 2009) 31 and time appropriate to the age of each target group. + To provide consultancy and guidance on the implementation of legaldocuments on solid waste management. + To introduce solid wastemanagement into business administration training programs (preventionand reductionof arising solid waste, use of environmentally friendly materials, and lawful collection and transportation of solid waste). + To carry out pilot activities and initiatives to better solid waste management. International cooperation: To increase technical exchange and cooperation with international organizations and non-governmental organizations in order to: + Exchange and learn experience in solid waste management. + Build solid waste infrastructure. +Receive technical assistance andtechnology transfer and train in solid waste management. + Build solid waste management capacity. 5. Programs to implement the Strategy To approve in principle programs to implementtheStrategy in theattachedAppendix. Article 2. Organization of implementation 1. The Ministry of Construction shall assume the primeresponsibility for, and collaboratewith the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, concerned mimstnesandbranches. and provincial-level People's Committees in, coordinatingthe implementation of theStrategy; guiding,directing,reviewing and evaluating the implementation of theGovernment'5 DecreeNo. 59/2007/ND-CP of April O, 2007, on solid waste management; reviewing and uniformly promulgating technical regulations andstandards and techno-economic norms on solid waste management; and studying and planning solid wastemanagement for regions,provinces, urban centers and particularareas, and coordmatewith the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in makinga strategic environmental impact assessment report and submit it for approval under regulations. 2. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment shall assume tht prime responsibility for. and coordinatewith ministries, branches, provincial-level People's Ccmmittees and involved parties in, elaborating and promulgating policies, mechanisms and instruments for prevention, reduction, reuse. recycling and at-source sorting of solid waste; forming a national solid waste database; elaborating technical regulations and environmental standards on solid waste, technical instructions for waste reduction, reuse and recycling; implementing programs to raise awareness about and capacity of frltegrated managementof solid waste; and monitoring and controlling environmental pollution caused by solid waste nationwide, and closely collaborate withthe Ministry of Construction incrordinating the implementation of the Strategy :lnd making a strategic environmental impact assessment. report, 3. The Ministry of Planning and in.vestment shall raise and seek domestic and investment capital from overseas; and allocate annual state budget funds to implement the Strategy's programs andprojectson integrated management of solid waste. 4. The Ministry of Finance shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate willtlbe Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of © VIETNAM LAW & LEGAL FORUM 32 OFFICIAL GAZETTE Issueno 1O/December 2009 (Gong Bao nos 597-5981Oecember 28, 2009) Natural Resources and Environment in, completing mechanisms and policies on finance and charges for integrated management of solid waste; and allocate annual state budget funds for integrated management of solid waste. 5. The Ministry of Science and Technology shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Construction in, studying andtransferring treatment technologies and technologies to manufacture new equipment and materials for integrated management of solid waste. 6. The Ministry of Industry and Trade shall supportenterprises and owners of waste sources in implerrrenting plans to prevent and reduce waste and apply cleaner production methods and environmental control system ISO 14000; and elaborate and Implement a master plan to develop the environmental industry, including the waste recycling industry. 7. The Ministry of Health shall increasingly examine and inspect health establishments nationwide in strictly observing regulations on medical waste management. 8. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development shall assume the prime responsibility for. and coordinate with the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in, Ionnulaung and implementing specific programs and projects to raise the effectiveness of solid waste management in rural residential areas and craft villages. 9. The Ministry of Information and Communications shall formulate and implement plans on communication in the mass media to raise puhlic awareness about environmental protection in general and integrated management of solid waste in particular. to. The Ministry of Education and Training shall review, evaluate, develop and introduce issues of environment and integrated management of solid waste into curricula at all educational levels. 11. Provincial-level People's Committees shall implement the Government's Decree No. 59/2007/ND-CPofApril 9, 2007, OTI solid waste management; promulgate specific incentive policies applicable to solid waste management in their localities; work out, promulgate and implement the mechanism for bidding or order of the collection, transportation and treatment of solid waste; direct the sorting of solid waste at source; consolidate and renew state enterprises providing non-business public services in their localities; examine, inspect and strictly handle violations of regulations on solid waste management; and disseminate and raise organizations' and individuals' awareness about and their responsibilities for integrated management of solid waste and environmental protection in their loca Iities Article 3. This Decision takes effect on the date of its signing. Ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, heads ot government-attached agencies, chai rpersons of provincial-level People's Committees and heads of concerned agencies shall implement this Decision For the Prime Minister Deputy Prime Minister HOANG TRlTNG HAT © VIETNAM LAW & LEGAL FORUM Issue no101Pecember2009 OFFICIAL GAZETTE (Gong Baonos 597-598/December 28, 2009) • Appendix LIST OF PROGRAMS TO IMPLEMENT THE NATIONAL STRATEGYFOR INTEGRATIm MANAGEMENT OF SOLIDWASTEUPTO 2025,WITH A VISION TO 2050 (To the Prime Minister's Decision No. 21491QD ITg ofDecember 17,2009) No. Program title Objectives Time of Agency in Main coordinating completion charge agencies 1 Program to promote - To work out and 2020 Ministry of Ministries of the prevention, implement Natural Constructim; reduction. reuse and solutions for Re~OUTCf'-'" Industry lind Trade: recycling of solid preventing. and and Health, waste reducing, reusing Environment concerned and recycling solid ministries and waste. branches anti To develop the provincial-level recycling industry People's Comminees 2 Program to promote - To elaborate and 2015 Ministry of Ministries of sorting of solid guide regulations Natural Constructioo; waste at source on sorting ot solid Resources Industry II(ld Trade; waste at source. and Health; ana To expand models Environment Finance. and of sorting of solid proviuciaj-level waste at source People's Committees 3 Program to build Tu build regional- 2020 Ministry of Ministries of regional-level solid level solid waste Construction Industry and Trade; waste treatment treatment Health; Planning works complexes for and Investment; economic regions Finance; Natural nationwide already Resources end approved by the Environment: and Prime Minister Science and Technology, and provincia I-Ievel People's Committees 4 Program to treat To build plants to 2020 Ministry of Ministries of daily-life solid waste treat daily-life solid Construction Planning and in urban centers waste in urban Investment; Finance; during 2009-2020 centers for Natural Resources localities and Environrnest; nationwide, using and Science and technologies that Technology, and limit the burial of provincial-level waste People's Col1lJl'lktees © VIETNAM LAW s LEGAL FORUM 34 OFFICIAL GAZETTE Issue no 1OJDecember 2009 (Gong BaD nos 597·598/December 28, 2(09) 5 Program to restore - To thoroughly treat 2020 Ministry of Ministries of the environment of seriously polluting Natural Construction; Finance; solid waste treating landfills under Resources and Planning and and burying Decision No. and Investment, and establishments 64/2003/QD-TTg. Environ- provincial-level To restore and up- ment People's Committees grade up to environ mental standards solid waste landfills nationwide. 6 Program to To increase 2020 Ministry of Ministries of Natural eohance solid integrated Agriculture Resources and waste management management of solid and Rural Environment; and in rural areas and waste in rural areas De velop- Construction, and craft villages and craft villages. ment provincial-level People's Committees 7 Program to form a To comprehensively 2020 Ministry of Ministries of solid waste build systems of solid Natural Construction; Industry dJ'tllbase and solid waste database and Resources and Trade; and Health, waste observation observation and and provincial-level system nationwide to raise Environ- People's Committees the effectivenessof ment solid waste management from central to local levels 8 Education program To raise awareness 2015 Ministry of Ministries of Education to raise community about sorting, re- Information and Training; Industry awareness ducetion, reuse and and and Trade; Health; recycling of solid Communica- Construction; and waste and sanitation tions Natural Resources and preservation through Environment communication and education 9 Program to develop To complete technical 2015 Ministry of Ministries of Natural pol icies, laws and standards, regulations. Con struction Resources and institutions on and instructions, Environment; Industry integrated mechanisms, policies and Trade; Health; management of and institutions on Finance; Planning and solid waste integrated Investment; and management of solid Science and waste Technolosv 10 Program to treat To collect and treat 2025 Ministry of Ministries of Natural medical solid waste up to environmental Health Resources and during 2009 2025 standards 100% of Environment; hospital solid waste Construction; and Finance © VIETNAM LAW & LEGAL FORUM