Rasmus Olsen

Odense Renovation

Odense Waste Management Company covers the Municipality of Odense, Denmark, with 190.000 inhabitants. We offer a wide range of solid waste management activities and solutions within a limited urban area and within one organisational set-up. Main activities are: - collection of household refuse, hazardous waste and recyclable paper from 82 000 households, - operation of 8 recycling stations, - about 150 bring banks for bottles, - street cleaning - operation of Odense Environmental Centre which comprises landfilling, sorting, recycling and composting activities as well as a Training Centre - extraction of landfill gas from the former Stige Island dumpsite, providing electricity via the public grid for about 5 000 households and heating via the district heating grid for about 900 households - closure and aftercare of the old dumpsite at Stige Island , including careful monitoring, collection and treatment of leachate. With roots more than a 100 years back it was in 1994 transformed from a municipal waste management department into a limited company owned by the municipality. It is a not-for-profit company, where all services are paid for by the users.