Pudong incinerator finishes construction
June 28, 2012 Category Environment, Pollution
Construction of a high-tech garbage incinerator in Pudong is finished and will be working on a trial basis before year’s end to ease Shanghai’s looming shortfall in garbage treatment capacity. The first phase of the incinerator will start burning waste in the second half of this year, the Shanghai Greenery and Public Sanitation Bureau said. It is built inside the Laogang landfill compound, now the city’s primary garbage treatment center. The new facility will be able to incinerate up to 3,000 tons of garbage every day, about 15% of the city’s current total daily waste. The second phase of the project, to open soon, will have the same capacity. The Laogang incinerator facility will be the largest in terms of treatment capacity in China. Heat from the incinerator will produce up to 100 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually, enough to supply about 100,000 local families. Some of the cinders will be processed into bricks while ashes will be buried. Both the waste liquid and gas would be treated to meet safety standards before being discharged. The Laogang landfill currently handles 70% of Shanghai’s daily waste. Over two decades, three huge landfill sites have been used up and a quarter of the fourth section is already full. Some local scientists have raised concerns about pollution from incinerators, however. Shen Jianhua, a local environmental scientist, warned that the operator and government watchdogs must strictly monitor the incinerators every day to ensure trash is always fully burned. Insufficient incineration causes the discharged gas to contain pollutants including cancer-inducing chemicals, Shen said.
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