Japan's Ministry of the Environment has decided to strongly support the industrial waste-based power generation industry, which is mainly based on waste plastics. In addition, in the 2003 budget, a quota of 1 billion yen was proposed to assist in the preparation of five power generation facilities. It is planned to build a total of 150 waste plastic power generation facilities throughout Japan by 2010, making industrial waste power an important part of new energy.
Japan’s commitment to prevent greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the “Kyoto Protocol†is 6%. To achieve this goal, Japan plans to use electricity generated by new energy sources by 2010 to account for 1% of the total electricity generation in Japan.
In the past, the Ministry of the Environment of Japan has been making efforts to generate natural energy such as wind power, geothermal heat, tides, and biogas, but it has not been very active in generating electricity from industrial waste. However, it is difficult to form a scale for wind power generation in Japan and biogas power generation, and the power generation capacity of a set of waste power generation equipment can reach 20,000 kilowatts, which is a very large scale. Garbage generation is enough to be the main source of new energy in parallel with solar power generation.
The main industrial waste that the Ministry of the Environment plans to use for power generation is waste plastics. At present, the total amount of waste plastics that Japan forms each year is approximately 5 million tons, and in 2000 it was 4.89 million tons. Of these, 25% were recycled and recycled as raw materials for plastics; 42% were buried; 6% were burned off; only 3% were used to generate electricity. Of course, if you can recycle 100% of the best recycling, but some waste plastic can not be recycled now. Japan is an island country. The land is very scarce, and landfills are becoming less and less. In the future, waste disposal must increase the amount of incineration.
The use of waste plastics to generate electricity can reduce the consumption of coal and oil and reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Japan's Ministry of the Environment plans to build 150 waste plastic power stations in Japan in the next eight years. By 2010, it will increase the current waste power generation by five times and make annual waste power generation of more than 4 million kilowatts.