Tehran, YJC. Iran inaugurated its first waste incineration plant on Monday in the capital, Tehran, in a bid to convert city waste into electricity.
In a ceremony attended by a number of city and state
officials, including Tehran's Mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, City Council
Chairman Mahdi Chamran, and Iranian Vice-President and Head of Environmental
Protection Organization Masoumeh Ebtekar, the country’s first incineration
plant was inaugurated.
Incineration is a waste treatment process that involves the
combustion of organic substances contained in waste materials. The heat
produced by incineration can be used to generate electric power.
Speaking to reporters earlier on Wednesday, Tehran’s Deputy
Mayor for Urban Services Mojtaba Abdollahi had said that the plant can produce
three megawatts of electricity by burning 200 tons of waste per day, Tasnim
news agency reported.
He added that the incineration plant has the capacity to burn
more than 200 tons of waste.
Abdollahi also said that if Tehran Municipality constructs
two incineration plants with a capacity to burn 2000 tons of waste per day, the
organization will be able to convert all waste produced in Tehran into
electricity.