The total amount of waste produced in Norway increased by 5 per cent from 2010 to 2011. In 2011, a total of 9.9 million tonnes of waste was generated.
However, waste recovery also continues to increase, Statistics Norway (SSB) reports.
The amount of waste has been steadily increasing over the last few years, and we are now generating only 3 per cent less waste than in 2007, when the amounts peaked.
While the amount of waste is increasing, the amount of waste that is sent for recovery is also increasing. In 2011, 46 per cent of non-hazardous waste undergoing known treatment was subject to material recovery, while 34 per cent was used in energy recovery. The total recovery of non-hazardous waste undergoing known treatment was 87 per cent in 2011; an increase from 82 per cent in 2010.
The increase in material recovery is mainly due to increased recovery efforts by the construction industry for waste fractions such as concrete, gypsum and asphalt.
The amount of waste going to landfill is still dropping. In 2011, only 0.8 million tonnes of waste was deposited, which is only 41 per cent of the amount that went to landfill in 2007, when the waste amounts in Norway peaked. The main reason for this drop in landfilling is the ban on landfilling with biologically degradable waste from 1 July 2009. The main fraction of waste that is now deposited is hazardous waste, according to SSB
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