Waste from Cambodia to An Giang province through Vinh Te canal.05/02/2009
VietNamNet Bridge – A huge volume of rubbish from Cambodia is running into Vietnam through border gates in southwestern provinces.
Most of the waste is coming into the country via the provinces of An Giang and Dong Thap. In these localities, dozens of tonnes of waste are transported by water and land each day.
At the Tinh Bien international border gate in An Giang province, we saw lines of trucks with Cambodian registration numbers carrying waste parked near the border-gate check point of Vietnam. Waste mainly comes from Phnom Penh and Ta Keo, goes along National Highway 2 of Cambodia to the border gate.
Vietnamese waste traders receive the waste at the border gate. They even pay in advance to Cambodian partners to collect waste, which includes banned things in Vietnam.
A Vietnamese-Cambodian said that in Thamau, Ta Keo province, Cambodia there is a spacious ground for waste, comprising used electronic products. This kind of waste is transported from Ta Keo to Chau Doc town, An Giang and then is distributed everywhere in Vietnam.
The chief of the An Giang provincial Customs Agency, Nguyen Thanh Tam, said: “Vietnam permits the import of some types of waste. Waste is checked at border gates and only waste that is allowed by the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment can pass.”
A customs officer at the Tinh Bien border gate said on average dozens of tonnes of waste goes through this border gate.
Yet, waste not only comes into Vietnam through the border gate, but on boats, which authorities can’t control. In An Giang, waste is transported from Cambodia to Vietnam along the Vinh Te canal and in Dong Thap province, waste boats run from Prey Veng to So Thuong, Hong Ngu, Tan Hong to HCM City. Some other boats continue to run down the Tien River to other locations.
According to Tien Phong daily, waste from Cambodia includes steel scrap, waste paper, nylon, plastic, glass bottles, used batteries, electronic waste, and pesticide containers, etc.
Most of the waste is coming into the country via the provinces of An Giang and Dong Thap. In these localities, dozens of tonnes of waste are transported by water and land each day.
At the Tinh Bien international border gate in An Giang province, we saw lines of trucks with Cambodian registration numbers carrying waste parked near the border-gate check point of Vietnam. Waste mainly comes from Phnom Penh and Ta Keo, goes along National Highway 2 of Cambodia to the border gate.
Vietnamese waste traders receive the waste at the border gate. They even pay in advance to Cambodian partners to collect waste, which includes banned things in Vietnam.
A Vietnamese-Cambodian said that in Thamau, Ta Keo province, Cambodia there is a spacious ground for waste, comprising used electronic products. This kind of waste is transported from Ta Keo to Chau Doc town, An Giang and then is distributed everywhere in Vietnam.
The chief of the An Giang provincial Customs Agency, Nguyen Thanh Tam, said: “Vietnam permits the import of some types of waste. Waste is checked at border gates and only waste that is allowed by the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment can pass.”
A customs officer at the Tinh Bien border gate said on average dozens of tonnes of waste goes through this border gate.
Yet, waste not only comes into Vietnam through the border gate, but on boats, which authorities can’t control. In An Giang, waste is transported from Cambodia to Vietnam along the Vinh Te canal and in Dong Thap province, waste boats run from Prey Veng to So Thuong, Hong Ngu, Tan Hong to HCM City. Some other boats continue to run down the Tien River to other locations.
According to Tien Phong daily, waste from Cambodia includes steel scrap, waste paper, nylon, plastic, glass bottles, used batteries, electronic waste, and pesticide containers, etc.
10 comments:
Au cambodge il n'y a que des bandes de bras cassés Question pourquoi l'argent que recoit le gvmnt Kmer ne construit pas des usines de triages et seulemnt apres exporter vers d'autres pays qui sont plus équipés. Ils ne sont pas IDIOTS ces khmers pour trier les déchets . C'est AHURISSANTS BANDE DE C... Travailler et sauver les petits gens non mais piquer l'argent dans la caisse oui
Anyone can translate the first comment?
That's odd!! This is English web not a French web. Anyway,.........
Come on 11:38PM if he want you to understand he would put it in English!!!!
What the heck if you can not understand this one? Most of the comments were hard to understand anyway!
He's/ she's basically saying why doesn't the Cambodian government use some money that they received from donors to improve manufacturing processes in reusing recycled materials.
Also, he/she says that there is not a united front in Cambodia. So, work together and save poor people, not only just putting money in cases, yeah?
done my best
Cambodia recycled all DK to become PRK and now KRP to be known CPP and soon Mien from Dong Kinh Viet Nam Cong Hoa.
These are recycled elements for Cambodia that cost billions of dollar in loan from formerly USSR aka Russie.
Cambodia can’t recycle shit! Aluminum cans, glasses and plastic were bought cheap from Cambodia and to be processed in other countries for finished products. When the products return to be sold in Cambodia, people pay at a higher price. That’s OK. But the gov’t should own a recycle factory and process it locally and create jobs for people.
Again, blind will always be blind… no clear visibility in sight!
I think most of the comments have the same root. Well, Cambodian gov't has even no ability to build a factory for recling useful waste. All in all, Cambodian knows how to grow raw material for selling but buying finished product with a higher price. When will the day come to Cambodia? Let see in a small thing. HK has no much land for growing aguriculture product but they sell alot... alot of kinds of food to the world. Why??? initiative, creative and make it. Come on Mr. Gov't, do you have such an idea or you have deep idea only on how to corrupt ??? Wake up please!
it's just recycling, not waste like toxic waste or something. from my understanding, vietnam, in its hunger for raw material, is exporting recycling materials from cambodia for their own economy as they are in needs of a lot of raw or recycle materials from cambodia, and perhaps from other countries who are willing to export recycling materials to vietnam as well. again, please write properly as recycling used materials, not "waste flowing into vietnam" or something other alarming and misquoting or whatever; it's recycling materials, not waste because waste sounds more like toxic waste; that is different for recycling materials. now that said, toxic waste are the kind some s.o.b people did to cambodia a while back whey they exported toxic waste into cambodia's sihanoukville a while back, remember! that's waste! this one isn't! that said, i don't think khmer people cared much about vietnam anyway! as long as they are paying for people to export these recycling materials, then more power to the people who are just trying to make a living by saling recycling materials to neighboring vietnam or srok youn as khmer people called it!
Vietname government are not dump
They take rice and reclable materials as claimed it as "waste" while they sell their free waste from Cambodia back to Cambodia.
So Ah Hun Sen is DUMP for not being blind but mentally blinded.
Nothing wrong with that, they did the same thing with the US and EU, and no one is complaining.
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