Waste-to-energy plant opens in Cape Town The plant would use 500 tons of organic household, municipal, and industrial waste per day, in an anaerobic digestive process, to produce methane, food-grade carbon dioxide, and organic fertilizer. The plant could supply around 4% to 5% of the city’s liquid petroleum gas requirement. In addition, the people who worked there would not have to pick through waste like those at rubbish dumps. They would have decent working conditions, including unemployment insurance. Afrox was expected to purchase methane and carbon dioxide from the plant. The plant would initially employ 80 people. See http://ift.tt/2kkdoym
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