According to the ministry of climate, we need to reduce the amount of imported waste and close some of the incineration plants. How?
- They want to transfer the task of burning waste from municipalities to the private sector (essentially through privatization), hoping that competition between the 23 incineration plants will force some of them to close.
- The Danish Waste Association disagrees with the idea that competition will force some of the incineration plants to close. While there is “overcapacity” in Denmark, the rest of the European market is “under capacity,” which means that the import of waste will only go up.
- One incineration plant imports in average 200,000 tons of waste per year