Turning Trash Into Energy to Light Up Mexico’s Metro Prensa Latina
go to original May 4, 2017

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Mexico City's Thermovalorization plant will reportedly use garbage as fuel to illuminate the subway of this capital.

The project will be designed, built and operated by the consortium ProActive Environment-Veolia, with an investment of $11,527 million Mexican pesos (more than 600 million USD).

In order to implement the project, the firm must build an ecological park in the vicinity of the Tláhuac station of the Metro Collective Transport System.

Jaime Slomianski, head of the Urban Management Agency, stated the plant will start operating in 2019.

He also informed it will be the first of its kind in Latin America, with the capacity to transform into energy 4,595 tons of waste from the 8,000 that are sent daily to the garbage dumps.

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