Waste suffocates the capital and attempts are made to invest it to generate electrical energy

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[size=52]Waste suffocates the capital and attempts are made to invest it to generate electrical energy[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad/ Mustafa Munir[/size]
[size=45]The Baghdad Municipality announced the intention to generate electrical energy from the capital’s waste, indicating that next February 24 will be the final date for closing the tender and selecting a company to implement the project.[/size]
[size=45]The secretariat’s spokesman, Muhammad al-Rubaie, said in an interview with (Al Mada), “The National Investment Authority and the Ministries of Electricity and Environment have nominated a waste management project with the aim of generating electrical energy in Baghdad.”[/size]
[size=45]He added, “The twenty-fourth of next February will be the final date for closing the tender and selecting a company that will undertake the implementation of the project to generate electrical energy from waste.”[/size]
[size=45]For his part, the head of the National Investment Authority, Haider Makiya, said in a statement followed by (Al-Mada), that “the government formed a specialized ministerial committee headed by the Investment Authority to study and set requirements related to waste recycling plants from reliable origins.”[/size]
[size=45]Makiya added, “The project will work within the specifications and standards of the advanced fourth generation of energy production by burning waste, and will contribute to addressing the environmental impact of the capital, Baghdad, and eliminating carbon and other emissions.”[/size]
[size=45]He explained, “The project will initially operate with a capacity of (3,000) tons per day of waste to generate energy and will be established in the Nahrawan area next to Rusafa in Baghdad.”[/size]
[size=45]In the same context, the advisor to the Ministry of Electricity, Abdul Hamza Hadi, confirmed in an interview followed by Al-Mada that “the first project to produce electrical energy from burning waste has an offer for investors that works on the principle of using thermal energy resulting from burning waste to heat water, as there are boilers in the stations.” Steam turbine produces steam, which allows the turbine to rotate to produce electricity.[/size]
[size=45]Hadi added, “The investor who wins the project will have an incentive profit margin in the tariff that the ministry pays to the investor to ensure that the project is profitable.”[/size]
[size=45]He explained, “In terms of numbers, it is possible to generate one megawatt, in exchange for disposing of 40 tons of waste, which means that the station that exploits 3,000 tons of waste can produce 80 megawatts of energy per day.”[/size]
[size=45]In 2022, the spokesman for the Ministry of Electricity, Ahmed Musa, stated that “the Ministry has other projects that it intends to work on in cooperation with the Baghdad Municipality and local governments, including waste recycling plants, as two sites were chosen, one in the Abu Ghraib area and the other in the Nahrawan area.”[/size]
[size=45]Waste covers large areas in various Iraqi governorates, making it vulnerable to burning by citizens to get rid of it and the unpleasant odors emanating from it, which causes the escalation of toxic fumes in those areas, and thus causes suffocation among the population.[/size]
[size=45]While the Director of the Baghdad Environment of the Ministry of Environment, Sadiq Hatem Abboud, indicates that “the Ministry has drawn up plans to end and remove unhealthy landfill sites that do not meet the conditions, as well as waste quarries in Baghdad and the governorates, and has addressed the Ministry of Construction and Municipalities and the Municipality of Baghdad to provide regular sites that secure locational parameters.” It fulfills the environmental requirements stated in the instructions.”[/size]
[size=45]He added that his ministry “also seeks to implement sustainable development plans by investing in waste by sorting it and recycling waste, generating electrical energy by burning non-recyclable waste, and investing gases generated in landfill sites to generate energy or use them as fuel, in addition to the possibility of using waste.” To produce organic fertilizers.[/size]
[size=45]Electricity in Iraq is one of the biggest crises facing the government in light of the high domestic demand, especially during the summer, limited production, and the decline in Iranian gas supplies to stations.[/size]
[size=45]Iraq produces 20 million tons of waste per day, while the Baghdad Municipality alone secretes 9,000 tons per day. These quantities are considered an enormous wealth awaiting investment by recycling them to produce new usable materials, while at the same time preserving the environment and providing job opportunities for the unemployed.[/size]
[size=45]Recyclable materials include metals, such as iron, aluminium, steel, plastic, glass, paper, cardboard, car tires, and textile materials. Wastewater can also be recycled.[/size]
[size=45]Electronic materials are also recyclable, and according to the United Nations, 41 million tons of electronic waste were thrown into landfills in 2014, and about one-sixth of electronic waste was properly recycled in 2014.[/size]
[size=45]Countries have begun to resort to waste recycling in light of the successive industrial and technological development, but in Iraq there is still reliance on traditional methods of disposal only without making proper use of them.[/size]
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