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The Kyoto Protocol, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is an international treaty that stipulates actions to be taken by nations to lower the risks of global climate change. Agreed in 1997 by 160 nations in Kyoto, Japan, and became legally binding on 16 February 2005, the Kyoto Protocol sets binding targets on industrialized countries to reduce their collective emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) by an average of 5.2% by the commitment period of 2008 to 2012, while developing nations are not subject to emissions reduction caps.

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a market-based financing instrument established under the Kyoto Protocol that allows industrialized countries to invest in developing-country projects and acquire GHG emission reduction “credits” they can then use to meet their GHG reduction commitments. For the investor country, this means an opportunity for offsetting emissions at a fraction of the cost of reducing GHGs domestically since most developing countries still use very inefficient technology. “Carbon Credit” is the amount of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) abated or prevented from atmospheric emission.

According to CDM experts, WES Technology qualifies as a CDM project as it captures GHG gases, methane in particular, from organic wastes to generate electricity. WES Technology, an “in vessel”, fully integrated, self-contained, automated, economically viable and 100% pollution-free was designed by WES Tech Inc., a California based company with more than 25 years experience in environmental design and engineering. WES is patented under US Patent 6,569,331 and considered “First in the World”

WES Technology can well serve Asian countries like, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Viet Nam and others that are signatories to the Kyoto Protocol. In establishing their municipal waste processing plants, these developing countries can benefit from financial assistance from industrialized countries that are in need of carbon credits to fulfill their obligations under the Kyoto Protocol. Available funding can also be sourced out from Carbon Finance Unit of World Bank, Asian Development Bank, “Equator Principles” and other financial institutions that are now engaged in financing qualified CDM projects.

In view of this development, host countries of clean technologies like WES can now permanently solve their perennial garbage disposal problem in an environment-friendly method, at a very minimal cost for land space and preliminary expenses for feasibility studies.

As far as WES Technology is concerned, a plant with 2,000 tons of garbage per day processing capacity with 40% degradable organic content (DOC) can generate as much as 1,600,000 tons of “Carbon Credit” per year. On going prices for is US$5.00 to $10.00 per ton. WES capacity per module ranges from 600 to 2,000 tons of waste per day. As an option, a separate 50 to 100 tons a day sterilization and processing facility for hospital and other contagious waste may be incorporated in the processing plant.

WES Technology can compliment a landfill project with its material recovery facility. It will also make landfill operation more profitable through the sales of organic products and recyclable materials aside from sales of carbon credit. Maintenance cost will be much lower since there will be no need for methane gas extraction, flaring, leachate pond and clean up. Moreover, it will also prolong the life of the Landfill by as much as seventy per cent (70%), considering the organic waste and recyclable materials that could be taken out of the landfill.