Waste to Energy in Phnom Penh

The project will support government counterparts in assessing technical feasibility of the RDF plant, and in designing a suitable procurement and contractual set-up for a PPP through an auction mechanism for a Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT) contract. As the biggest city in Cambodia, Phnom Penh is the ideal candidate for such a project as it generates enough volume of municipal and industrial solid waste, within a relatively small area. There is no large-scale recycling facility in Phnom Penh and no source segregation of waste, apart from informal collection of some recyclables. Therefore, WtE represents a suitable option to deal with such mixed waste streams in large scale. The model is potentially replicable in larger cities in GGGI member countries.