Regional Waste Management Facility to get a Major Upgrade Soon

The installation of a waste-to-energy plant to be built in the regional waste management facility in Addu City has been revealed by the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, and Technology, and the work for it has begun.

The establishment of this facility in Addu will be done by South Korean joint venture company Lotus Kunwar. The total value of USD 16 million is being taken from the Maldives Green Fund. All the equipment which would be needed, such as incinerators needed to burn waste for energy generation were designed and made abroad.

The ministry has stated that this plant will burn 50 tonnes of waste per day and generate 1.5MW of electricity per hour in Addu. On the same note, this plant will also be connected to the power grid of State Electric Company Limited (STELCO).

The decision to build this facility was done under the current government's commitment to sustainable waste management in order to pave the way to solve the management issues in the atolls.