Peshawar has 4 towns and 84 union councils (UCs). Solid waste management is one of their functions. Now city government has planned to build a Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF), Composting Plant and possibly a Waste to Energy Power Plant which would be a land mark of Peshawar city administration.
Pakistan generates some 56,000 tons of solid waste on a daily basis in urban areas only, which is increasing at the rate of 2.4 per cent annually. There are advanced waste-to-energy conversion technologies that have been proven commercially viable and sustainable, and recognised as renewable. Refuse-derived fuel (RDF) provides a primary source of alternate energy, as feedstock for waste-to-energy plants. (Hussain 2020)
The first-ever project was launched in Peshawar in January 2005, on BOT basis, with a capacity of producing 4.8MW electricity.
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