Will send Bergensarane’s food waste to Denmark – NRK Vestland
7 out of 10 Norwegians have been able to sort their food waste for years.
But not the inhabitants of Bergen. So far, their food waste has been incinerated together with the residual waste in the city’s incineration plant.
Now the people of Bergen have finally received the offer, but instead of being burned in the same city, the food waste will be sent across the sea to Denmark.
Fanaposten mentioned this first.
– Useful for Denmark
Because the Bergen area lacks its own facilities for recycling food waste, it must first be sent to a biogas plant in the neighboring country.
– That was what was possible to achieve. Getting a biogas plant in our area will take a couple of years, says CEO Borghild Lekve of BOB, who is responsible for the waste in Bergen and six neighboring municipalities.
The plan is to build a biogas plant in Voss, an hour and a half drive from Bergen.
– It takes some time to be established, but the food waste will become useful energy and biofertilizer in Denmark.
– Completely crazy
Charlotte Spurkeland in Bergen Høgre is not impressed with the new offer to the people of Bergen.
– It is completely crazy that I should send our food waste to Denmark. It seems healthy backwards.
Nevertheless, she thinks it is good that the inhabitants have finally been offered to sort food waste.
– We’ll see how it goes before we judge the order north and down, but I’m not impressed, she says.
Impatient Bergen residents
City Development Agency Councilor Thor-Haakon Bakke (MDG) is also not over-enthusiastic about what BOB has achieved.
– The city council has demanded the collection of food waste for a very long time. None mat BOB get started with it.
He points out that around 70 percent of Norwegian households already have the right to sort and deliver their food waste.
– The people of Bergen have been waiting impatiently for this for a long time. Making biogas and fertilizing food waste is a good climate and environmental policy.
– But how climate-friendly is it to transport food waste from Bergen to Denmark?
– The BOB has to answer that, says Bakke.
– The environmental accounts will be good: we get much more out of food waste than so far, Lekve answers.
Paper bags and containers
Before the Bergen food waste becomes Danish biogas, it must be collected and thrown into containers around Bergen.
Kastinga must be taken care of by the people of Bergen themselves, at least until their own food waste bins are ready during the spring.
At home in the kitchen must be collected in paper bags in an airy plastic container supplied by BOB.
– All food waste is desirable, says daily leader John Gaute Kvinge in BIR Transport AS. Still, he advises not to put so much moist food waste on the paper bags that they tear.
CEO of BOB, Borghild Lekve, is even clearer in the council:
– Throw away less food. It is regardless of the best and most environmentally friendly alternative.