The Ministry of Ecology of Uzbekistan, as well as Vision International Investment and Suez, signed an agreement to create infrastructure for the processing of hazardous waste. The $78 million project includes the production of fuel from waste.
Uzbekistan, together with companies from Saudi Arabia and France, plans to implement a project in the field of hazardous industrial waste management, the press service of the Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change reports .
The agreement on this was signed by Deputy Minister of Ecology Zhusipbek Kazbekov, Director of Development of Vision International Investment (Saudi Arabia) Kapil Lalwani and Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia of Suez International (France) Paul Bourdillon.
The project is estimated to cost $78 million. It will be implemented in three stages:
- At the first stage, it is planned to build complexes for waste stabilization and placement in specialized landfills, as well as the organization of regional transmission stations.
- The second stage will involve developing an engineering project and conducting pilot testing of equipment for the production of RDF fuel (fuel from waste), as well as combustion and thermal processing units.
- The third stage involves the construction and launch of a full-fledged enterprise for the production of RDF and thermal processing of waste.
The foreign company Suez International from France specializes in water and waste management, including hazardous waste, and operates in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the USA, Africa and the Middle East.
Vision International Investment Company is a large investment holding company managing assets worth approximately $96 billion. Its main areas of activity include energy, infrastructure, utilities, water management, power generation, consulting, and public-private partnership projects.
https://www.gazeta.uz/ru/2025/06/23/waste/
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