Waste Statistics 2000

Table 2.
Waste generation by treatment option 1996 - 2000, and target for year 2004
  

'000 tonnes

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

W21

Treatment

tonnes

%

tonnes

%

tonnes

%

tonnes

%

tonnes

%

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recycling

7.787

60

8.046

63

7.542

62

7.815

64

8.461

65

64

Incineration, of which

2.507

19

2.622

20

2.740

22

2.929

24

3.064

24

24

Sludge incineration plants

170

 

177

 

161

 

138

 

156

 

 

Waste incineration plants with energy recovery

2.337

 

2.445

 

2.579

 

2.791

 

2.908

 

 

Landfilling

2.524

20

2.103

16

1.868

15

1.472

12

1.489

11

12

Special treatment (1)

95

1

86

1

84

1

17

0

17

0

0

Source: As Table 1, and the Danish Government’s Waste Management Plan 1998 – 2004, Waste 21. States that waste was treated separately in a special treatment form. Covers treatment of hazardous waste, including health-care risk waste.