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As a result the sectoral total in CO 2 -equivalents decreases through the time-series. Compared with
1990 the 2003 emission is about 10% lower, Table 8.1.
8.2 Solid Waste Disposal on Land (CRF Source Category 6A)
8.2.1 Source category description
For the past many years only managed waste disposal sites have existed in Denmark. Unmanaged
and illegal disposals of waste are considered to play a negligible role in this context.
The CH 4 emission from solid waste disposal on land at managed Solid Waste Disposal Sites
(SWDS) constitutes a key source category both as regards level and trend. In the key source level
analysis it is number 11 of 21 key sources and it contributes with 1.6% to the national total. As regards
the key source trend analysis it is number 17 in the list where 22 are keys (Cf. Annex 1).
A quantitative overview of this source category is shown in Table 8.2 with the amounts of landfilled
waste, the annual CH 4 emissions from the waste, the CH 4 collected at landfill sites and used
for energy production and the resulting emissions for the years 1990-2003. The amount of waste
and the resulting CH 4 emission can be found in the CRF tables submitted.
The amount of deposited waste has decreased markedly for the time-series. This is a result of action
plans by the Danish government called the "Action plan for Waste and Recycling 1993-1997"
and "Waste 21 1998-2004". The latter plan had inter alia the goal to recycle 64% of all waste, to incinerate
24% of all waste and to deposit 12% of all waste. The goal for deposited waste was met in
2000. Further, in 1996 a municipal obligation to assign combustible waste to incineration was introduced.
In 2002 the Danish Government set up new targets for the year 2008 for waste handling
in a “Waste Strategy2004-2008” report.
The decrease of the emission through the time-series is markedly, but much less than the decrease
in amount deposited. This is due to the time involved in the processes generating the CH 4 , which
is reflected in the model used for emission calculation.
Table 8.2. Waste amounts in landfills and their CH 4 emissions 1990-2003.
Year Waste Annual Biogas
emission collected
Annual
net
emission
kt kt CH4 kt CH4 kt CH4 kt CO2-eqv.
1990 3175,1 64,0 0,5 63,5 1334,1
1991 3032,3 65,3 0,7 64,6 1357,6
1992 2889,6 66,5 1,4 65,1 1366,2
1993 2746,8 67,4 1,7 65,7 1379,4
1994 2604,0 68,2 4,6 63,6 1335,3
1995 1957,0 68,7 7,4 61,2 1285,6
1996 2507,0 68,8 8,2 60,7 1274,4
1997 2083,0 68,6 11,1 57,5 1207,8
1998 1859,0 68,5 13,2 55,3 1161,9
1999 1467,0 68,2 11,5 56,7 1190,7
2000 1482,0 67,8 11,0 56,8 1192,3
2001 1300,0 66,6 10,0 56,6 1188,0
2002 1174,0 65,1 10,0 55,1 1156,2
2003 966,0 63,2 8,3 54,9 1152,8
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