There are numerous reports in the literature that state that the potential of creation of employment is at least ten times than with a Waste to Energy Project given the same treatment capacity. This is confirmed by analysis of the reported direct employment creation with the solid waste projects as summarised below.

From the above summary, it is clear that at total plant capacity of half of the proposed WTE project, the direct employment opportunities with the solid waste recycling projects are nearly four (4) times that for the proposed WTE Plant.

In addition it is expected that Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) will provide direct services such as the collection and supply of waste paper to the waste paper recycling plant and scrap metal recovery from the composting plant for example. All these SME will provide additional employment opportunities.

In the case of the proposed WTE project, no such direct services can be identified as even the scrap metal from the bottom ash cannot be recovered as they are in the form of alloys and hence cannot be reused. Moreover the bottom ash is probably highly contaminated and hence recovery of metals is more problematic.

Hence it is concluded that the proposed WTE Plant does not generate as many employment opportunities as waste reuse, recycling and composting schemes do. Employment and business opportunities in resource recovery can occur without a WTE Plant.

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21 Assume Direct Foreign Investment of 75% of Project Value
22 EIA report: section 3.13.1 p3-27
23 Direct Foreign Investment