California Waste Solutions plans new renewable energy facility in Vietnam
In California, Vietnam Waste Solutions (VWS), the wholly owned Vietnamese subsidiary of Oakland-based California Waste Solutions (CWS), said it is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to further Vietnam’s 2050 net-zero target by converting the country’s first U.S. Subtitle D sanitary landfill into a larger clean-power and resource-recovery complex.
The 341-acre landfill outside Ho Chi Minh City in Da Phuoc was the first U.S.-standard waste landfill built in the mid-2000s and it receives and buries up to 6,500 tons of municipal solid waste a day, or roughly 2.4 million tons a year. The landfill services over half the household waste generated by Ho Chi Minh City’s residents.
About $200 million has already been invested in developing the existing Da Phuoc environmental complex. That investment established the landfill and its supporting systems and is separate from the proposed 50- to 60-megawatt waste-to-energy plant, the firm said.
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