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A company promoting using the contents of household rubbish bins to generate electricity says it can make a contribution to the Government's energy strategy.
Wastesaver New Zealand also said it was close to announcing a deal with at least one council, which would see household rubbish turned into electricity.
The Government this month released an energy strategy that effectively banned thermal power stations, encouraged energy saving and promoted alternatives to fossil fuels.
"The Government's latest energy strategy could be helped by generating power from household rubbish using an environmentally developed technology, rather than throwing it into landfill," said Wastesaver New Zealand chief executive John Fistonich.
He said the technology to be used was environmentally responsible and had been developed over the last 20 years.
"A Wastesaver plant processing 500 tonnes of household rubbish per day can generate up to 15 megawatt hours of electricity to households, without causing any pollution to the atmosphere," he said.
The process reduces waste volumes by up to 90 per cent and recovers all available recyclables, Mr Fistonich said.
- NZPA
