Approximately 45 per cent of the waste is recycled and maximum use is made of the residual waste to generate heat for the city’s district heating network. The City of Copenhagen's new resource and waste plan ”Circular Copenhagen 2019-2024", aims to recycle 70 per cent of the city's waste.
Copenhagen also gets energy from shares of biomass (including waste-to-energy systems) and solar (solar photovoltaics and solar thermal). Copenhagen International School features the largest solar facade developed for a building in the world (as of the time it was developed).
Although incineration also will play a central role in the waste management system in the future, Copenhagen is looking towards alternative treatment methods to increase material recycling. Read more about Making the most of waste in the City of Copenhagen and explore related cases, news and know-how.
According to the IRENA/PVPS Task 12 report on EOL PV panels published in 2016, waste projection range in Germany will be between 400 000 tons and 1 million tons in 2030 and increase up to 4.3 million tons in 2050. In France, the amount of collected PV module waste has multiplied by more than 13 times from 366 tons in 2015 to 4 905 tons in 2019.
It is possible to sell heat to two of Copenhagen’s subsystems in the district heating network: the local distribution system of Hofor, and the transmission network of CTR. This is done in specially developed double tube-bundle condensers.
The amount of PV waste in Spain is currently small, but it will increase in the short to medium term caused by the EOL of the first PV plants installed and in the long term caused by the aging of plants recently installed and the new ones that will be installed in the coming years.
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