Wired News: Power Supply Is Down in the Dumps: "In Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital city, the overwhelmed city garbage company only picks up half of the 3,500 tons of waste discarded each day; the rest is left to rot in streets and sewers.
The majority of the trash that does get collected ends up at the massive Matuail dump, a 50-acre pile of debris that is nearing capacity just 11 years after it opened."
"Next month, ground is expected to be broken on a $10 million project sponsored by Netherlands-based World Wide Recycling to scale up Waste Concern's existing composting program and turn Matuail's noxious emissions into electricity.
The agreement was facilitated by a Kyoto Protocol-designed system called the Clean Development Mechanism, which allows organizations in the developed world to claim carbon credits by supporting greenhouse-gas-reducing projects in developing countries. "
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