HOW ARE WASTE INCIDENTS CLASSIFIED?
On April 23, 2025, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 11/2025/QĐ-TTg on the regulations on response to waste incidents. Accordingly, a waste incident is defined as an environmental incident caused...
On April 23, 2025, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 11/2025/QĐ-TTg on the regulations on response to waste incidents.
Accordingly, a waste incident is defined as an environmental incident caused by the leakage, spillage, or release of waste during the processes of generation, collection, storage, interim storage, transportation, preliminary treatment, treatment, co-treatment, recycling, energy recovery, or disposal of waste.
Waste incidents are classified in accordance with the classification of environmental incidents as stipulated in Article 123 of the Law on Environmental Protection, and include the following levels:
- Facility-level waste incident: An environmental incident where pollution or environmental degradation is confined within a production, business, or service facility;
- District-level waste incident: An environmental incident that exceeds the scope of a facility-level incident and causes pollution or degradation within the administrative boundaries of a district-level locality;
- Provincial-level waste incident: An environmental incident that exceeds the scope of a district-level incident and causes pollution or degradation within the administrative boundaries of a provincial-level locality;
- National-level waste incident: An environmental incident that causes pollution or degradation across two or more provincial-level localities or has a transboundary environmental impact.