Odense Environmental Center
Environmental protection
Odense Environmental Centre was established in 1994 by Odense Waste Management Company Ltd. Being one of the largest and most modern environmentally safe landfills in Northern Europe, it has been attracting many visitors from Denmark and abroad. Especially the high degree of environmental protection initiatives at the Environmental Centre as well as the closure and aftercare initiatives taken at the old landfill, Stige Island, has been attracting attention from abroad.
Activities at the Environmental Centre
- Receiving area, workshop and administration
- Pre-treatment plant for processing leachate
- Composting of yard waste
- Composting of biomass (sludge from sewage Treatment)
- Treatment of soil contaminated with oil
- Screening of slag from waste incineration
- Intermediate landfilling of possibly recyclable Waste
- Intermediate landfilling of combustible waste
- Landfilling of asbestos-containing waste
- Landfilling of shredder waste
- Landfilling of waste suitable for landfilling
More than 50% waste recycled
The Environmental Centre keeps constantly abreast of the latest development within environmentally responsible solid waste management. More than half of the solid waste received by the Environmental Centre is being treated and recycled instead of landfilled.
May last for 130 years
Not much solid waste is left for final landfilling. Thus the capacity of the landfill areas of the Environmental Centre is at present estimated to be at least 130 years, while the initial estimate was 30 years.