Odense Waste Management Company Ltd.
Odense Waste Management Company covers the Municipality of Odense having around 185 000 inhabitants. 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.
Odense Waste Management Company offers a wide range of well-functioning solid waste management activities and solutions within a limited urban area and within one organisational set-up, such as:
- collection of household refuse, hazardous waste and recyclable paper from 82 000 households,
- operation of 8 residential recycling stations,
- 1 industrial recycling station
- about 150 bring banks for bottles,
- participation in operation of central sorting facility for industrial waste in cooperation with private waste handling company,
- 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.
In response to a growing demand for a more structured dissemination of the acquired know-how within the company, Odense Waste Management Company has been transforming its many years of experience and lessons learned into flexible packages of operation and maintenance support and manuals as well as flexible modular training and practice services. These services are focusing on the practical application of well established solid waste management technologies and knowledge.