Ecobreves – PERU: Turning Garbage into Energy

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LIMA, Jan 13 2002 (IPS) - The first facility to turn organic waste into electricity in Peru and, according to its promoters, the first in Latin America, will be installed in 2003 in the Amazonian city of Iquitos, some 1,000 km northeast of Lima. The US-based International Technology Center (ITC) will invest 21 million dollars in the energy-generating plant, which will turn the 340 tons of organic solid waste Iquitos produces daily into 10 megawatts of electricity.

The energy produced will be sold to Electro Oriente, a private company that distributes electricity to the city.