Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct.3
By Rashid Shirinov – Trend:
There is a plan to build two plants for solid waste processing by 2020 in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan, the press service of the head of the region’s administration said in a statement.
The total cost of the plants will be more than 10.2 billion tenge.
Construction of the plant in Karaganda will begin in 2019 on the initiative of GorKomTrans LLP. The cost of this project will be 2 billion tenge. It is assumed that the enterprise will process 300,000 tons of waste per year, with the possibility of generating 15 megawatts of electricity.
The second enterprise – a bioelectric power plant for waste processing– will be built in the Kengir village. KAZ Green Energy LLP plans to invest 8.2 billion tenge in its construction. This plant will be able to process up to 100,000 tons of solid waste a year.
Moreover, a waste sorting station will be built in 2020 in the Kokpekty village on the initiative of Jean-Aru LLP. The design capacity of the enterprise is 100,000 tons per year.
Presently, there are 202 solid waste landfills in the Karaganda region. Ten enterprises are engaged in the processing of industrial, hazardous and medical waste, while sorting and processing of household waste are carried out by three organizations: GorKomTrans, Recycling and TTC.
Solid waste processing in Karaganda region reached 13.8 percent in the first half of this year, whereas this indicator equaled 10 percent for the same period of 2017. The average in the country is 10.5 percent.