Waste Recycling
The Waste to Energy Agency
Recycling: This is a significant and effective waste management, it receives and recycles waste from households in Oslo, neighboring municipalities and from private companies as well.
Sorting Plants: The EGEs optical sorting plant, green bags with food waste and blue bags with plastic packaging are separated from the residual waste and sent to material recovery.
Clients: EGEs clients include waste contractors and other municipalities. Waste is used as a resource, and EGE receives waste in competition with other energy recovery plants in Norway and Sweden.
Capacity: The two incineration plants have the capacity to receive a total of 410,000 tons of waste annually. From this, around 840 GWh of energy is recovered as district heating and about 160 GWh as electricity. This corresponds to the energy use of 84,000 households.
Examples: The Haraldrud plant and Optical sorting