Incinerators in Aalborg and Hjørring will also be burning British trash.

“The heating we create using the waste is cheaper than that which we can generate with natural gas,” said AVØ mind Tore Vedelsdal. “And the British are interested because they lack incinerators and pay heavy taxes .”
Vedelsdal said that the ecological angle works for both nations.

“They save on having to bury the waste and we save on the usage of natural gas,” he said.

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Environmental protection agency Miljøstyrelsen said that last year up to 200,000 tonnes of non-hazardous waste from England was incinerated in Denmark — almost six percent of the whole quantity of combustible material used.

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Power in Denmark is increasingly being generated in plants burning waste imported from England. The tradition has been called an economical and ecological boon on either side of the equation.

The AVØ incinerator in Frederikshavn produces heating and electricity to the region by burning trash from England.

“It is mainly construction waste like bits of wood, cardboard and plastic from Manchester,” AVØ operations manager Orla Frederiksen told DR Nyheder. “I guess we’ve 600 tonnes here that provide a excellent combustible mixture we can then turn into district heating and electricity.”

Good for the bottom line

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