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Friday, May 3, 2013

The "big" problem of Oslo: Lack of rubbish!?




  • Norway's capital, Oslo, has an unusual problem: the city is seriously lacking garbage. Nearly half of Oslo where heated by burning waste fuel factories, but due to the high degree of recycling system, these factories were not "material" - rubbish!
  • Therefore, Oslo has started to import trash from Ireland. But the competition is great offers from Northern European cities, especially from Stockholm, Sweden who earlier had convinced some small Norwegian towns to sell their waste.



  • Waste incineration plants in Scandinavia have the capacity to process 700 million tons of waste per year, but the region produces less than a quarter of this amount. Once such factories are being built in Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and Austria, for which the director of the Norwegian Agency for waste recycling is interested to know how these countries will provide the necessary garbage.



  • "I would like to import from the U.S.. Transport by sea is free," said agency chief, Paul Mikkelsen New York Times.



  • Hege Roothe Olbergsveen, senior adviser on waste management program in Oslo, believes that there is a European waste market, since this is a hot commodity now. But things are not easy, because not all rubbish is the same. For example, the offer of the Italian city of Naples (German and Dutch cities to give their waste) can not "pass" easily in Norway, because "Italian garbage is not clean and secure as eg England he "writes the NYT.



  • Kosovo has the capacity to enter into this market, but there are problems with Naples as "rubbish clean and safe" dilemma arises how can plasojmë "merchandise" our?

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