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Solid waste management 

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Read about selected projects which COWI is carrying out or has completed within the field of solid waste management.
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Disposal of redundant chemicals, Zambia

Various redundant chemicals from Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd are being inade...
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Treatment of healthcare waste in Serbia

In consortium with the Euro Health Group, COWI is assisting the government of the Rep...
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Management of waste tyres, Oman

Waste tyres from vehicles are often improperly stored and disposed of in Oman, and th...
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Health care waste management, Kingdom of Lesotho

In corporation with experts from South Africa and Lesotho, COWI i...
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Environmental assessment of waste sorting in Odense, Denmark

A recently developed analysis programme EASEWASTE makes it easier for COWI to assess ...
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Assessment of waste scheme, Vordingborg, Denmark

Based on COWI's assessment of environment, economy and service, the Danish municipali...
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Solid waste management in Kiev, Ukraine

In response to a growing need to address solid waste management problems in the capit...
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Climate survey of incineration plant, Dublin, Ireland

COWI compares a range of waste management options and provides data for a public cons...
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CO2 reductions at new waste treatment centre, Qatar

COWI investigates the potential CO2 reductions to be achieved by the oil state of Qat...
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Rehabilitation of Ilulissat dumpsite in Greenland

For 20 years the dump in Ilulissat has been inoperative. The d...
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Mercury contamination clean-up, Kazakhstan

COWI was in charge of the detailed design for remediation of an industrial site pollu...
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Disposal of obsolete pesticides in Mali

COWI A/S has been awarded a contract under the African Stockpiles Pr...
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Upgrade of South Africa's hazardous waste handling

South Africa is building up a modern waste management industry and C...
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Removal and disposal of PCBs in Zambia

Even though the manufacturing of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) stopped some 30 yea...
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Solid waste management in Kaunas, Lithuania

After Lithuania’s independence, the Municipality of Kaunas (with approximately 430,00...
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Sanitary landfill at Avedøre Holme, Denmark

AV Miljø is the biggest landfill in operation in
the Greater Copenhagen area. The...
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Environmental assistance to Romanian oil company

In Romania COWI assisted PETROM S.A. by providing environmental and engineering consu...
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Audebo landfill gas plant, Denmark

The landfill of Audebo covered an area of approximately 5.8 ha in 2001 and more than ...
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National plan for hazardous waste management in China

The objective of the project was to provide implementation support to the State Envir...

LAST UPDATED: 23.03.2012