Waste management in China
China has the largest population (1.33 billion) on Earth and is experiencing rapid economic growth. This country has a GDP of $8.8 trillion in terms of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), which is the third largest in the world after the EU and the US. However, its population is over four times that of the US so the actual per capita GDP is only $6.800 and corresponds to a fraction of the US GDP per capital.
Despite the relatively high capital cost of WTE, the central government of China has been very proactive with regard to increasing WTE capacity. One of the measures brought in provided a credit of about $30 per MWh of electricity generated by means of WTE rather than by using fossil fuels.