In order to be considered eligible, the following criteria must be met:

• The project involves energy generation (electricity and/or heat) from MSW incineration. The MSW incineration shall be considered as recovery operations with respect to the waste hierarchy as long as the project activity recovers energy from municipal waste incineration in an efficient way.

• The project develops and implements a waste management awareness programme to encourage the stakeholders to adopt best practices for waste reduction, reuse and recycling and avoid any negative impact on prevailing waste management practices in the project boundary. Such a programme may include variety of activities – including but not limited to – community outreach and education campaigns, educational campaigns via local schools and other institutes, educational displays, television/radio campaigns, etc.

• Project activities planning to make use of waste materials that are already in use in the pre-project situation shall NOT be eligible (e.g. waste material already being used by another facility or industry) unless convincing evidence is provided to show that the current users are in agreement with the shift of use resulting from the project. In the absence of such an agreement, the Project Developers shall demonstrate that the project activity makes use of surplus waste materials and shall include this analysis in the Monitoring Plan. They must be done as follows for projects with installed energy generation capacities of:
  1. Less than or equal to 15 MW or 45 MWth – once, ex ante, in time for validation
  2. Greater than 15 MW or 45 MWth – once, ex-ante in time for validation and for each one of the verifications

Additionally, all projects must meet the general criteria outlined in Principles and Requirements.