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This photograph shows the storage area for the various plastics bales in a new "surtri" plastic waste centre in Epinal, northeastern France, on June 28, 2024. Yoghurt pots, food trays and coloured bottles of fizzy water: new types of waste that were previously rarely recycled can now be recycled once they have passed through France's second "surtri" centre in Epinal. In a building covering more than 4,000 m2, hundreds of crushed packaging items of all colours follow a long conveyor belt similar to a rollercoaster at a funfair. Along the way, they pass through optical sorting machines where they are classified and separated as they go. (Photo by Jean-Christophe VERHAEGEN / AFP) Image used for illustration purpose.
TASHKENT - Uzbekistan plans to implement projects worth about $1.3 billion focused on the construction of waste-to-energy plants, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev's office said on Monday.
Tashkent plans to work on those with China's CAMC Engineering 002051.SZ and Shanghai SUS Environment as well as Tadweer Group of the United Arab Emirates and South Korea's Sejin 075580.KS.
Combined, the plants will process 4.7 million metric tons of solid waste a year into 2.1 billion kilowatt-hours of electric power by 2027, Mirziyoyev's office said. Uzbekistan's total power output is over 70 billion kw-h per year.
(Reporting by Mukhammadsharif Mamatkulov Writing by Olzhas Auyezov; editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise)
