Waste-to-energy in Nicaragua

Nicaragua’s capital last week gave a 30-year license to build and operate a waste-combustion plant to W2E Eco Energy Investment Nicaragua, a company incorporated in Panama in 2013, and represented by Morgan & Morgan.

The project, with a reported investment of $17 million, will be located outside Managua, a metro area of close to 2 million people, whose waste mainly goes to landfills.

Waste-to-energy plants have been criticized for emitting potentially toxic particles, including dioxins.

Providers for their part claim that current recovery and storage operations make the incineration of municipal garbage no more dangerous than a conventional power plant.

Users can benefit from low energy prices, since garbage is cheap.

At the same time, a waste-to-energy operation reduces the need for landfills.

New plants are under construction in the United States for the first time in 20 years.