Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Sunday held a meeting on two waste-to-energy projects in the capital, with China’s CMEC Group investing in one project and South Korea’s B&F Company implementing another, his office said.

According to a BSS report, China’s CMEC Group will invest in a plant at Aminbazar under Dhaka North City Corporation, Deputy Press Secretary Shahadat Hossain Shadhin told reporters after the meeting at the Cabinet Division conference room.

The facility will process roughly 3,000 tonnes of waste per day to generate 42.5 megawatts of electricity and is expected to begin supplying the national grid by August 2028, with an operational lifespan of 25 years.

A second project, at Matuail under Dhaka South City Corporation, will be implemented by South Korea’s B&F Company. The plant will produce about 15,000 tonnes of methane gas annually from waste, yielding approximately 81,000 megawatt-hours of electricity each year — equivalent to 221 megawatt-hours per day — along with solar power, fertiliser, animal feed and eco-bricks, Shadhin said. The facility is designed to handle 3,000 to 3,500 tonnes of waste daily.

The meeting was informed that the two projects would make a significant contribution to improving waste management, addressing climate change and mitigating global warming, Shadhin added.

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman directed officials to convene an inter-ministerial meeting involving the local government, power and environment ministries to accelerate implementation and stressed that both projects should be completed on schedule using the best possible environmentally friendly technologies.