Ecology Business. (From the issue of "New Journal From Japan")

Smokey mountain.
Well known as the mountain of garbage in the Philippines.
Scavengers look for metals and plastics from them to live for a day.
And enormous kitchen garbage, the main component of the smokey mountain, produce vast amount of methane gas, which pollutes the atmosphere.

Last year,
Mitsubishi brought a project.
It is the generator, which uses methane gas as fuel.
They say this project is feasible, and it contributes a lot to an area.
Its merits are:

1. It generates electricity, and improves supply system in the Philippines.
2. It doesn't use petroleum. the cost of production is not affected by the WTI.
3. It reduces the pungent smell of methane gas.
4. Greenhouse effect will be reduced. methane gas is 21 times more effective to catch heat than the CO2, which is emitted in it.
5. Mitsubishi will earn an ecology right.

And the last one is the main purpose of this project.

I'm gonna explain.

On February 2005, Kyoto Protocol took effect.
It says all about reduction of green house gases for the global warming.
And all advanced nation must reduce CO2 emission, with quota. Japan must reduce 6% from the amount emitted on 1990.
And when an advanced nation helps the third world nation for CO2 reduction, the amount reduced can be emitted extra. that is "ecology right".

Right now,
CO2 is traded with the price of 6 US Dollars per ton.

Clean air costs a lot.

We must not leave this problem to the next generation.