The strategy for an eco-friendly,sustainable Ethiopian economy aims to bring the country to middle-income status by 2025 while pegging back emissionsThe hulking waste-to-energy power plant taking shape on the edge of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, and symbolises ambitions to convert the agrarian Horn of Africa country into an eco-friendly industrial powerhouse.
The government’s $120m (£76.8m) Reppie project,being built to EU emissions standards, will incinerate the city’s nonsense to generate 50MW of electricity. A computer-generated image on display at the site shows the future factory shrouded by a tree-filled park.
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Source: theguardian.com