Citizens sent questions to the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment with the content: Our company equips kitchens to provide about more than 3,000 meals between shifts for employees. Let us ask: Can waste materials such as excess grease, packaging after use of dish soap, soy sauce, floor cleaner... be sold to a purchasing unit for reuse? Wastewater generated from this dining hall discharged must be applied according to domestic wastewater or industrial wastewater standards?
Answering this content, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment said:
- Excess oil and fat waste of food origin, packaging after use of dish soap, soy sauce is not hazardous waste, is managed as ordinary industrial solid waste, accordingly, the above-mentioned wastes must be reused, recycled, energy recovered and treated or transferred to the following subjects:
a) Production facilities directly used as raw materials for production, production of construction materials or leveling are allowed to operate according to the provisions of law;
b) Production facilities with appropriate waste co-treatment functions;
c) Conventional industrial solid waste treatment facilities with appropriate functions;
d) Industrial solid waste transportation facilities that have contracts of transfer with subjects specified in points a, b or c above.
- In case there is no specific regulation on wastewater management in the facility's environmental records, which is the dining hall, wastewater generated from the dining hall's operation (not to be mixed with other types of wastewater) when discharged into the receiving water source must meet QCVN 14:2025/BTNMT - National technical regulation on domestic wastewater and urban wastewater, concentrated residential areas (issued according to Circular No. 05/2025/TT-BTNMT dated February 28, 2025 of the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment - Now the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment).
