Hanoi installs surveillance camera system in waste "black spots"

Hanoi operates 100 modern environmental sanitation vehicles and equipment in 4 inner-city districts. (Photo: Minh Anh/Vietnam+)

Accordingly, to strengthen the work of maintaining urban order and ensuring environmental sanitation in the city during the organization of activities to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the successful August Revolution, National Day September 2 and prepare to serve the 14th National Congress of the Party, the 18th City Party Congress, the city assigned the Department of Agriculture and Environment to review and develop a flexible and effective operation plan for centralized waste treatment areas (Nam Son, Xuan Son), ensuring continuous and safe reception and treatment of waste, facilitating vehicles to transport waste to waste-to-energy plants to reduce the amount of waste treated by landfill, avoiding backlog and congestion.

The Department of Agriculture and Environment is also assigned to advise the city on innovating equipment and means for environmental sanitation; investing in modern machinery and equipment, applying new technology in waste collection and transportation; increasing investment in management technology, installing camera surveillance systems in areas with "black spots" of waste; building a digital data platform to serve the management and operation of urban environmental sanitation effectively and transparently.

The City assigned the Department of Construction to focus on strictly handling violations of urban order such as encroachment on roadsides and sidewalks to store construction materials and construction waste. Organize inspections of construction works, promptly correct violations of construction order and construction sanitation; require investors to strictly implement regulations on ensuring environmental sanitation throughout the construction process, including strictly handling vehicles transporting construction materials and construction waste that are not covered and spilled during transportation; vehicles and equipment entering and leaving construction sites that generate mud and dust on the streets.

In this dispatch, the city leaders assigned the city inspectorate to preside over and coordinate with the Department of Construction, the city police and the People's Committees of wards and communes to strengthen inspections and specialized examinations of compliance with regulations on ensuring environmental hygiene during construction and transportation of construction materials and waste; strictly handle according to authority or recommend competent authorities to handle investors and transport units that violate (not packing, covering, letting things fall and causing dust and environmental pollution), and at the same time inspect, monitor and handle violations of urban order according to regulations.

“The city police will coordinate with the Department of Agriculture and Environment and the Department of Construction to increase patrols, control, and arrange checkpoints to check vehicles causing environmental pollution and street dust (emissions that do not meet requirements, littering, construction materials, waste soil, and sludge) for timely handling according to regulations,” the dispatch stated./.

According to VNA

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