People's lives are disrupted by temporary landfills
Garbage piled up into sky-high piles, lasting continuously, making the area's landscape become messy. Especially on peak hot weather days, the strong stench from this temporary landfill follows the wind straight into people's houses, completely disrupting the daily life of local people.
Not only Nam Phuoc commune, the situation of garbage congestion and serious overload is also taking place in neighboring areas such as Thu Bon and Duy Nghia communes. In these places, hundreds of tons of garbage are not treated in time, causing urban unsightliness and posing a very high risk of disease outbreaks.
Reflecting on this misery, Ms. Tran Thi Man, a resident living in Nam Phuoc commune, angrily said: "Since the landfill gathered and dumped here, day and night people have to endure an unbearable stench. Life is seriously affected, we always live in fear of the risk of disease outbreaks and dangerous diseases such as cancer due to pollution. People urgently request higher authorities to quickly take measures to completely resolve this landfill".
Agreeing with this view, Mr. Nguyen Tai added: "In peak periods such as Tet days, my family almost has to close doors continuously because the stench is too strong. Recently, although the landfill has been covered with tarpaulin, the situation has not improved much. More seriously, there are times when spontaneous waste heats up, burns slowly without decomposition, generating toxic smoke from nylon bags and other types of waste, flying straight into people's houses, making the air burnt and extremely suffocating.
Reduce environmental pressure
The direct cause of this prolonged waste congestion is identified as the Bac Quang Nam Solid Waste Treatment Plant stopping receiving waste from September 2025. Meanwhile, the current replacement treatment areas have too limited capacity, unable to bear the huge amount of waste generated every day. Therefore, localities have to accumulate waste at temporary collection points, putting heavy pressure on the surrounding living environment.
Mr. Nguyen Truong Son - Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Da Nang City - affirmed: "Currently, the city is urgently implementing planning to continue expanding large landfills such as Khanh Son and Dai Loc. Khanh Son landfill will be scaled up to 70 hectares, Dai Loc landfill is 50 hectares and Que Cuong landfill is 15 hectares. At the same time, we also propose to establish a waste collection area in the south of the city in Nui Thanh commune with a scale of 50 hectares to promptly respond and handle when environmental incidents occur.
According to Da Nang City People's Committee, the locality is accelerating the roadmap for converting treatment technology from landfill to waste burning for electricity generation, focusing on projects at Khanh Son Solid Waste Treatment Complex. Functional agencies are also actively removing obstacles at waste treatment facilities in neighboring areas to soon put them back into operation, in order to reduce pressure on current temporary landfills.
