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Recycling | Norway
Environmental Services
In Mongstad, outside Bergen, a new
hazardous waste treatment facility
makes it possible to offer more efficient
and environmentally safe services to
customers.
New hazardous waste services for
industry
The hazardous waste market is growing in
Norway, and Stena Miljø’s operations are
developing strongly. With its new plant in
Mongstad, it can offer customers a range
of efficient and environmentally safe services
to treat hazardous waste. Mongstad
also strengthens the total waste management
solutions customers are offered.
Located on a fjord, the plant can provide
services to all industries operating onshore
or offshore. For example, it meets the environmental
and safety requirements placed
on the offshore drilling industry, as well
as the industry’s own requirements in terms
of proximity, efficiency and competence.
There are significant environmental advantages
with the process. The plant – the
only one of its kind in the world – treats
more than 95 percent of all common types
of hazardous waste using evaporation
technology. Hazardous waste is converted
to pure water, which can be released back
into nature, as well as fuel, which can be
used either to power the plant or sold as a
high-grade energy source.
Stena Miljø AS
Stena Miljø offers environmentally safe
waste management solutions and supplies
products to industry, hospitals and
municipalities. Hazardous waste is collected,
transported and processed.
WEEE such as appliances, computers
and other electronic scrap is collected,
dismantled and recycled.
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Stena dismantles WEEE waste from Norwegian municipalities, among other customers.Stena’s Tom
Erik Halvorsen (left) and Per Lenborg, operations manager at ROAF, one of Stena’s customers.
WEEE
With new agreements and improved
processes, electronics recycling in
Norway developed positively during the
fiscal year.
Electronics recycling
Electronics recycling continues to develop
positively, and the company’s processes
are at the forefront, just as in the rest of
the Stena Metall Group. A long-term perspective,
efficiency and environmentally
safe processes are the key success factors.
The operations have attracted international
attention, and during the year
visitors from 15 European countries have
come to see how electronics recycling
works.
The more stringent requirements that
will apply to electronic scrap following
the introduction of the WEEE directive
(see page 24) on July 1, 2006 are positive.
Stena Miljø has an excellent collaboration
with the material companies Renas and
Elretur, which organize a large share of
WEEE collections. During the summer a
new, three-year cooperation agreement
was signed with Renas on industrial electronic
waste such as pumps, cables, and
fluorescent light bulbs. This creates the
potential to raise volume in the years
ahead.
Stena Miljø is prepared to meet customer
demand when the WEEE directive is
introduced.
Effective and safe technology
Various types of picture tube glass are
separated using a unique technology at
Stena’s treatment plants in Germany, after
which they can be reused by picture tube
manufacturers around the world. Stena
Miljø is the only company to have such
technology in Norway. This is an example
of how it is helping to boost recycling
rates in the industry in accordance with
EU legislation. Another example is the
recycling of appliances, which has been
moved to Stena’s facility in Halmstad,
Sweden. With the advanced process in
Halmstad, more material can be recycled
from end-of-life appliances. In addition,
ozone-depleting Freon can be destroyed
directly in the process in an efficient and
environmentally safe manner.
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