LAHORE: The second phase of the Lahore Waste Management Company’s waste-to-energy project has begun.
According to a news statement released here on Thursday, Atif Chaudhry, Chairman of the LWMC, and Sania Awais, the Managing Director of the Punjab Power Development Board, met to discuss the project.
Earlier, Punjab’s Chief Minister Parvez Elahi also ordered that the project must be completed at the earliest.
Furthermore, the chairman of the project, Atif Chaudhry, predicted that construction would begin in the next four to five months, and in this regard, newspapers had issued an ad asking for expressions of interest.
According to Managing Director Sania Awais, the waste-to-energy initiative would be run through one window and it would be country’s first garbage-to-energy initiative.
The sources confirmed that the plant would convert 1,250 tonnes of solid trash into 55 megawatts of power per day for the Sundar industrial area.
According to the representative of Norwegian firm ENATE, Carl Fredrik Seim, 40 million tonnes of solid trash are present in Lahore but only 5,000 tonnes are collected each day, which would be utilized to produce electricity.
