Construction workers uncover buried waste at relocated industrial park in Vietnam

Construction workers at the Bắc Thạch Hà Industrial Park in Hà Tĩnh province, Vietnam, discovered a large volume of waste buried underground during land leveling operations.

The VSIP Hà Tĩnh Company cooperated with a firm from Nghệ An province to transport the waste for treatment following the discovery. Workers used machinery to extract the waste from the soil and gathered it in an open area to await disposal.

The waste originated from a waste incineration furnace in the Bùi Xá village. The Phù Việt Environmental Protection Youth Cooperative managed the furnace, which faced issues including insufficient capacity, high moisture content from rain, and mechanical damage from storms. Because the furnace could not fully incinerate the waste, the cooperative buried the remaining ash and partially burned waste on-site in a designated area. The furnace eventually stopped operating entirely in late 2022.