| Abstract | Vietnam as well as other developing countries in Asia is now beginning to enter a
period of rapid industtialization. There are the natural locations for new principles of
sustainable production to take root and evolve. The industrial ecology is a new and innovative
strategy for sustainable industry and represented by UNEP IE in recent years. At the most
basic level, it involves designing industrial systems so as to minimize waste and maximize the
cycling of materials and energy.
Emphasis on pollution prevention principle, Vietnam environmental policy encourages
defining and applying of new appropriate industrial organization that can compete with and
ultimately di splace old modes. The aim of study, therefore, is to evaluate the applicability of
transforming an existing industrial zone into Bo-industrial Park (EIP) as a practical
implementation of industrial ecology. It foc uses on the flows of materials and utilities in
industrial acti vities, the influences of regulatory, institutional and other factors on the flows,
use and transformation of resources. Through surveying in plants, interviewing governmental
officials, reviewing literature and analyzing collected data, the study views to both advantage
and di sadvantage of those factors. It could help to assess new opportunities for the
development of Sai Dong Industrial Zone (SDIZ) as well as other industrial zones in Hanoi
City. There is also an illustration that using particulate copper as a test recyclable materi al to
suggest enabling solutions in printed-circuit-board faci lities.
SDIZ offers great opportunities to transfer and use wastes/by-products between
electronic and mechanical industries such as heavy metals, solvents, acids, metalworking
fluids. However, most of industries are small and medium-scaled enterprises, resulting in not
very high volume of valuable materials for transfen'ing, and uncertainty by-products supply
due to changeable of products. The current regulation is trending towards integrating and
institutionalize pollution prevention into the whole regulatory structure of permitting,
inspection and enforcement. However, there are also some obstacles to design and execution
of a program stimulating industrial environmental management, due to insufficient regulatory
framework and inconsistent implementation. Hanoi Industrial Zone Management Board
(HIZMB) has responsibility to coordinate all aspects of development of new industri al zones,
but they have no specific functions of environmental management. They also lack of staff with
appropriate skills and experiences in environmental management. Compare with other
industrial zone, SDIZ's infrastructure developer is the governmental company that's an
advantage for the priority of industrial categories and organi zing environmental activities.
To promote industri al ecology, in particular creation of EIPs, the government should
support efforts by business to develop industrial ecology schemes, for example by creating
information systems, promoting innovative programs, and providing financial and technical
support. Essentially, the industries should improve their in-plant practices by applying
Industrial Ecology Tools and priority of reliance on pollution prevention techniques. |