Recycling Portal 2 November 2015: Trondheim, Norway —
Norwegian municipalities can choose to treat
the collected household waste themselves, purchase treatment solutions
in the market, or give certain public plants an exclusive right to treat
the waste. Fewer and fewer Norwegian municipalities treat their waste
themselves, and more of them buy treatment solutions in the marketplace
or grant exclusive rights. Both Norwegian and foreign plants compete for
Norwegian household waste. Currently, around 25 per cent of household
waste from Norwegian municipalities is treated in plants that have been
granted an exclusive treatment right.
In 2013 Norway exported a total of 650,000 tonnes of residual waste
for energy recovery. Around a third of this amount is household waste.
The export of residual waste from Norway is sent almost in its entirety
to Sweden for energy recovery. Exporting waste from Norway requires the
consent of...
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