Thursday, November 17, 2016

Tohokubu Clean Center

Last Friday we visited Tohokubu Clean Center, a solid waste treatment factory. A cute place among the mountains. Very clean and with a lot trees. If do not know what this building is really stands for, you will never guess that 700 tons of wastes in “yellow bags” are processed here daily. No disgusting smells and even no smoke from the chimney. Each detail seemed to be thought out. Turning garbage into electricity production is very clever idea. Even ash could be used to “build” the islands, increasing the constrained territory.

I know that the problem of waste treatment is actual for my country. For example, in Moscow and its suburbs only 17 % of waste are cycled. All other garbage is just stored on open space in Moscow region. There are several factories inside Moscow, but it's not enough. The technology is poor and therefore it's not environment -friendly and it's really annoying for Moscow citizens.

Tohokubu Clean center showed that there is a real example of solving such problems. Such factory aims at sustainable and clean waste treatment with changing wastes fuse into energy and harmonizing with surrounding environment. Combination of high technologies and great designing standards makes such project adaptive to every country. I sent the information about such factory to Moscow region government in my home town. Probably it'll be interesting for them. Since the relationship between Japan and Russia becomes warmer recently, one day the problem of waste treatment would be the theme of reciprocal cooperation between these two countries.

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