THE GOLD STANDARD: Project Design Document …

1 1 THE gold STANDARD: Project Design Document for gold Standard voluntary Offset projects (GS-VER-PDD) For more information, please contact The gold Standard: phone +41 61 283 09 16 fax +41 61 271 10 10 April 2006 This Document was developed by: The gold Standard for VERs has received financial support from: Explanatory information on how to complete the PDD and how to obtain gold Standard registration can be found in the Project developer s manual available on the gold Standard website. 2 This template of the PDD is applicable for micro-, small- and large-scale projects.

2 Note that the shaded boxes present information on the gold Standard VER Project development procedures. Project developers should delete these shaded boxes when preparing their PDD. 3 CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM Project Design Document FORM (CDM-PDD) Version 03 - in effect as of: 28 July 2006 CONTENTS A. General description of Project activity B. Application of a baseline and monitoring methodology C. Duration of the Project activity / crediting period D. Environmental impacts E. Stakeholders comments Annexes Annex 1: Contact information on participants in the Project activity Annex 2: Information regarding public funding Annex 3: Baseline information Annex 4: Monitoring plan 4 SECTION A.

3 General description of Project activity Title of the Project activity: >> Mamak Landfill Waste Management Project Turkey Version number of the Document : 07 Date: Description of the Project activity: >> Summary: The Mamak Landfill Waste Management Project , developed by the Turkish Ankara Branch of ITC Invest Trading & Consulting (hereafter referred to as the Project participant ) is located at the Mamak landfill site in Ankara the capital city of Turkey. The landfill receives the waste of approximately million people living in 6 municipalities of the Ankara Greater Municipality1.

4 The landfill has an average depth of 30 meters and covers approximately 1 million square meters. The landfill currently holds 20 million tons of municipal solid waste MSW). Approximately 60% of the waste consists of organic materials. The average daily amount of waste land filled is estimated at 3500 ton/day. The Project participant has acquired the right to commercially operate the Mamak Landfill in 2005. Their vision is to develop the landfill as a zero waste landfill, where the environmental impacts of the existing and future land filled waste is limited, or even neutralised.

5 The vision includes two solutions; the first for the existing waste and the second for the fresh waste entering the landfill. The solution for the existing waste is the implementation of a Land Fill Gas (LFG) extraction and utilisation system. For the fresh (or future) waste the envisaged solution is the implementation of a bio-digester and a gasifier. The successful implementation of this vision is considered to be only viable with the income from carbon credits. All of the activities and implementations defined within the frame of the vision can be called as the generic Project .

6 To lower the financial and technical risks, the Project participant has decided to implement the generic Project in several phases. The first two phases include the installation of a LFG extraction and utilisation system and the required civil works (covering of the landfill and installation of a leachate draining system). Furthermore these phases include the construction of a sorting facility and recycling centre. The successful implementation of the first two phases, which depends on the income from carbon credits creates the financial stability required for the implementation of the third phase of the zero-waste vision.

7 This third phase includes the installation of an anaerobic digester and a gasification system. The proposed Project activity involves: covering of the landfill area; gas engines (utilization of the recovered LFG, biogas from anaerobic digestion, and syngas from gasification); gas extraction system; leachate drainage system; flaring system; anaerobic digester system; gasification system; recycling centre. 1 The municipalities served by Mamak Landfill are namely; Golbasi, Mamak, Cankaya, Kecioren, Yenimahalle and Alt ndag Municipalities.

8 At total Ankara Greater Municipality have 8 municipalities under. 5 However the gasification system is not eligible under the gold Standard rules and therefore no VER credits will be claimed from emission reductions from gasification2. This condition creates a difference between the generic Project activities and to be called the VER Project activities, which defines the activities resulting in emission reduction credits. The VER Project activity involves: o covering of the landfill area; o gas engines (utilization of the recovered LFG, biogas from anaerobic digestion); o gas extraction system; o flaring system; o anaerobic digester system; For the purpose to follow a consistent description of terminology, hereafter the generic Project will be referred as the Project and the VER Project activity will be stated specifically where applicable.

9 The proposed Project will reduce GHG emissions in two ways: 1. By recovering, preventing and utilisation of methane. In the baseline situation, the municipal waste is left for decay at the landfill site, which leads to the production of large amounts of landfill gas. Landfill gas contains approximately 50% methane, which is a potent greenhouse gas (GHG). The recovered LFG and, produced biogas and syngas will be utilised in gas engines, excess gas will be flared; and 2. By displacing electricity which otherwise would have been generated by the power plants attached to the Turkish grid.

10 The sequential phases of Project activity are summarised in the table 1 below. 2 The gasification system is not eligible under gold Standard version 1 rules because the gasifier feedstock is a mix of renewable and non-renewable waste. 6 Table 1 Sequential phases of the proposed Project . Year Phase Sub-Activity Total Installed Capacity3 (MW) Operational? (yes/no) 1980 The Landfill was under the control of Municipality The area started to be used as a landfill area under the control of Municipality 0 2005 The Project participant ITC has been granted the Right of Use for 49 years.