Hanoi to require household waste sorting and allow collectors to refuse unsorted rubbish


A sanitation worker collecting rubbish at an informal dumping site in Vietnam's capital city, Hanoi. -- PHOTO: VIETNAM NEWS/ASIA NEWS NETWORK

HANOI (Vietnam News/ANN): Hanoi will require households to sort their rubbish into three categories from Jan 8, under new rules that allow waste collectors to refuse unseparated rubbish and could pave the way for higher, volume-based disposal fees.

The regulations, issued under Decision 87 signed by the city’s Vice-Chairman Nguyen Manh Quyen, represent the capital’s most sweeping overhaul of household waste management in more than a decade.

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