AFRICAN DELEGATES INSPIRED BY WASTE MANAGEMENT PROCESS.
Bernama 21June 2011
By Choong En Han
Impressed by how a Malaysian company has managed to turn waste into energy, African countries will now take back the experience, which they believe, can be the solution to managing waste back home in their respective countries.
“We are still using landfills to dump our rubbish and we certainly don’t have anything close to this back home. Perhaps we can follow a similar path and integrate the same soluntion in our country,” said Zimbawe Ministry of Transport, Communications and Infrastructural Development Secretary, Partson Mbirri.
He expressed surprised at the existence of the waste Management Plant (Recycled Energy Sdn Bhd, RESB) which one would expect only existed in a developed country, he said that initial capital may be needed but this is the way forward.
Mbirri was part of the 9th Langkawi International Dialogue (LID2011) delegation which visited Core Competencies whose RESB plamt in Semenyih, Selangor, converts municipal waste into electricity.
The company operates an integrated soloid waste management system that recovers 80% of its raw waste in the form of reusable items and an industrial fuel which generates electricity.
RESB Chairman Datuk Dr Mohamed Ariffin Hajio Aton said the self-sustainable plant received between 550 tonnes and 650 tonnes of municipal waste per day from Kajang and Cheras, generating between 5.5 and 8.5 megawatts of electricity, daily.”
“The plant is capable of handling up to 1000 tonnes of waste everyday. The organization is currently in the midst of negotiating the setting up of similar plant in batu Pahat, Johore.”
“When the Feed-in-Tariff is in place, hopefully by September, our revenue from power generation will probably double due to the revised power rates at which the national grid operator will buy (electricity) from us,” Datuk Mohamed Ariffin said.
He welcomed potential tie-up with African parties. Core Competencies is currently in talks with prospective partners in China, Cambodia, Indonesia and Vietnam.
The power output from RESB is between 5-6MW per hour. So over a day it would amount to 100-120MW. All that from about 500 tons of waste.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why household waste still comes under the ministry of housing and local government when waste has been proven to equal energy. Surly it should now be transferred to the ministry of energy, green technology and water.
As usual those wbo gets the job done are never in the limelight. Those who are usually in the limelight seldom gets the job done.
ReplyDeleteShalom