Nigerian Waste to Energy Bill 2020

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Every state capital must be home to at least one waste-to-energy (WtE) plant that processes urban garbage into electricity

(2) Every industrial park must have a WtE facility where its waste is converted into power

(3) Every WtE facility will have a micro grid attached to it that can distribute the generated power within the state in which it is located

(4) State governments will grant tax holidays to dedicated plastic collection companies that focus on collecting packaging and bottles and taking them to recycling centres for conversion into power

(5) By 2025, Nigeria shall seek to generate at least 1,000MW of electricity from waste. Thereafter, the plan will be to generate an additional 500MW a year

(6) A tax holiday will be granted to any shipping line which dedicates itself to procuring waste from neighbouring countries and bringing it to Nigerian power plants

(7) For any agricultural crop where we have an over-production, the excess will be gathered and shipped to a processing plant where it will be used to create biofuel. Our WtE plants must thus be modular to accommodate this

(8) In every state capital, the sewerage system will be connected to these WtE plants so all sewage can also be converted into power

(9) Each plant must also have a dedicated railway line so that all waste can be transported there via sealed trains

(10) Markets will be provided with special waste bins. The goal is to make all our state capitals carbon neutral by 2030