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www.danishwasteassociation.dkDanish Waste Association Vodroffsvej 59, 1 :: DK-1900 Frederiksberg C

The Danish Waste Model

Nana Winkler

Danish Waste Model Study Tour 24. september 2014


Agenda

• Denmark

• Danish Waste Association

• History of Waste Management

• Obligations and organization

• Treatment facilities

• Taxation

• New goals

• Waste management in Poland?


Denmark

• 5,6 mio. inhabitants

• 400 Islands, 70 inhabited

• -7m to 170 m ‘high’

• 60% area farming

• Rural areas

• 5 regions, 98 municipalities



Danish Waste Association ‘waste is ressources’

Lobby organization

• board of local politicians from our members

• 54 members: Municipalities, inter-municipal companies, public supply companies

• Our members collect and treat waste from all 98 municipalities

Task’s:

Lobbyism and knowledge sharing


Danish Waste Association in EU

Municipal Waste Europe:


Electronicalwaste

Environmentalregulation of landfills

Recyclingpaper, glass

1990 19971970 2014

Tax on landfilland incinerationRegulation of commercial waste Landfill ban

Roadmap and ressource plan

2006

Hazardouswaste Recycling

stations

Packagingwaste


History - waste

1900 -> Collection of municipal waste – to landfill

1970 Environmental requirements for landfills-> central landfills, incineration

1970 Collection of hazardous waste

1987 Obligation of recycling systems: paper and glass

1990 Municipal provision of treatment facilitiesTax on landfill and incineration

1997 Ban on landfilling of combustible waste

2006 Obligation of recycling of package wasteProducer responsibility of WEEE

2009 Producer responsibility of batteries

2010 Reform of recyclable commercial waste

2013 New resource strategy: Denmark without waste


Total waste treatment in Denmark to day

69%

25%

6%

Recycling

Incineration

landfilling


Treatment of household waste

54%

3%6%

3%

2%

18%

1%9% 4%

Incineration

Landfill

Paper and cardboard

glass

organic waste

garden waste

hazardous waste

metal

others


Municipalities in Denmark

State:• Waste strategi • Legal framework• Waste statistics• Producer responsibility

98 municipalities:• Regulation and fee’s• Collection and treatment• Monitoring and mapping• Waste management plans


Municipalities collectsall household waste

Recycling schemes of:

• Paper and cardboard

• Glass

• Packaging waste

• Hazardous waste

• Sorted construction waste

• WEEE and batteries


Household waste

Households are obligated to

• use collection schemes

• to sort waste

• pay fee


Typical feeSingle-family house

Collection scheme Approx. fee: Euro / year

Weekly collection 100-120

Recycling stations 100-120

Recycling and administration 30-50

Total 230-270


Split municipalities/companies

• Companies:

– Treatment facilities (sorting, incineration, landfill, hazardous waste, new facilities)

– Collection (households, recycling stations)

– Information and education

– Prepare tasks for the authorities (the municipalities)


Commercial waste

Municipal collection

• Some combustible waste

• Recycling stations

Municipal regulation

• Waste for inciniration and landfills

Free market for

• Waste for recycling


Private recycling companies


Recycling of concrete and bricks


Sorting plants /pretreatment –household waste

• Few, small plants for household waste

• Do we have the necessary amounts for high tech plants?

• New cooperations? In-house? Commercial waste?


Incineration

27 incineration plants- 24 public owned20% af district heating5% of electricity production

Householdwaste

Commercialwaste

Average fee2011

euro/ton

Fee 35

Tax 28

Gatefee 63


Planning for treatment facilities


Landfills

• 32 landfills

• public ownedInert waste

Non hazardouswaste

Hazadous waste

Average fee2011

euro/ton

Fee 49

Tax 63

Gatefee 112


Landfill tax

50 euro


Tax connected to incineration

• Heat from waste tax

• Additional tax

• CO2-tax

• NOx-tax

• Part of ETS (CO2)


Tax ~ Fee


Income waste incineration

Power

Waste

Heat


Denmark without waste

• Recycling from 22-> 50 % in 2022 (special fractions within the household waste)

• More incineration of garden waste

• Recyclables from service sector 52%->70% in 2018

• Organic waste from restaurants and grocery stores 17%->60% in 2018


New recycling schemes

2 or 4 waste fractions:• Paper• Plastic• Metal • Glas


Local containerspaper and glass and more?


Typical recycling stationÅrhus

Construction wastefor recycling

Soil

Composting

Other recycling

Incineration

Landfill


Information and education


Know your customer


Thank you for your attention !

Dansk Affaldsforening

Vodroffsvej 59, 1.

DK-1900 Frederiksberg C

Tlf. + 45 72 31 20 75

[email protected]

Special Adviser – Nana Winkler