![]() Maintenance or repairs of the incinerators meant waiting for service personal from abroad and importing spare parts from outside Greenland and contributed to long down periods. And despite incineration, “the waste was piling up at a lot of places”, causing emissions, uncontrollable fires or waste spread out by the wind. The bottom ash was disposed of at uncontrolled disposal sites without further valorization. However, Gunvor Marie Kirkelund, Environmental Engineer at the Technical University of Denmark, suggests that the incineration plants did not have any fly ash treatment so that the material was shipped to end the disposal at hazardous sites in other countries. “Within a few years, there will be incineration plants in all the larger towns.” (At that time, Greenland was part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and Denmark was one of the leading countries in incineration.) Similar plants were provided for Aasiaat, Maniitsoq and Ilulissat. More than that, in Nuuk a twelve-year-old incineration plant and a three-year-old facility in Qaqortoq were running. In the new waste incineration plant in Sisimiut, construction waste was mixed with household waste into a homogeneous mass to burn evenly. ![]() ![]() In 2007, the Danish-Greenlandic Environmental Cooperation proclaimed that “we now have a new waste incineration plant, which means that we no longer have to landfill flammable waste, but can burn it and get heat from garbage”. Per Ravn Hermansen, former Greenland’s Ministry of Domestic Affairs, Nature and Environment, has “only a rough idea about the amount of municipal waste generated in Greenland”.
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