Guangzhou unable to handle all the rubbish, incinerators needed
September 27, 2012 Category Environment, Pollution
The Standing Committee of Guangzhou’s People’s Congress confirmed plans to build five garbage incinerators by 2015, with one of the three planned for Huadu district to be completed by 2014, despite protests by local residents. The government has cut the number of incinerators it plans to build by 2015 from six to five, and reduced its daily-capacity target from 15,000 tons to 11,000 tons, but public opposition remains widespread. The city already has one incinerator, in Likeng, in the northern district of Baiyun, which handles 1,000 tons of refuse each day. Most of the rest of the 18,000 tons of waste the city produces each day end up buried in landfills, which already contain 40 million tons of garbage. While the scaling back of the city’s incineration plans can be viewed as official acknowledgement of public concerns, the government remains resolute in its determination to promote the burning of refuse both to solve its waste problem and to generate electricity. Xu Jianyun, Deputy Director of Guangzhou’s Urban Management Committee who is in charge of building waste-treatment facilities, said the city would have 20,000 tons of refuse a day by 2020 and had to reduce the amount being sent to landfills. Many people complained the incinerators will be built close to communities and could pose serious threats to residents’ health and the environment. Arguments over whether Guangzhou should have incinerators, and, if so, where, have been going on since 2009. The city government also needs to answer doubts about the fairness of the bidding process.
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