Next up in the 2018 series of the Global Waste Investment Fact File is the Ireland edition. As of February 2018, AcuComm was listing 19 projects in the country. These have a total value of US$1,674 million or US$88 million each.

Key points from this Fact File:
- Incineration (with energy recovery) is the leading project type, accounting for US$1,191 million or 74% of the total. This is followed by gasification, accounting for US$181 million or 11% of the total.
- The total estimated capacity of these projects is 3.5 million tonnes. This is equal to 185,083 tonnes per project on average.
- This capacity is equal to 131% of Ireland’s estimated annual waste generation at 2.7 million tonnes.
- Waste investments totalling US$966 million are expected to become operational over the next few years. This is expected to peak in 2021 at US$471 million.

Alternatively, explore the full list of projects in Ireland.