Opened fossil-free mass reception
This is an important step on the way to handling society's surplus masses in a more environmentally friendly way. Now we are fossil-free, the question is how can we become completely emission-free? Said CEO of NOAH Environment Egil Solheim.
Present during the launch were political leadership in Nittedal municipality, a parliamentary representative from the energy and environment committee, industry organizations and actors in the building and construction industry.
- We have a lot to be proud of here in Nittedal municipality - now also a fossil-free mass reception. Working to reduce emissions is one of our times' most important contributions to meeting the climate and environmental challenges. And NOAH should be proud of what you achieve here in Engadalen, said acting deputy mayor of Nittedal municipality Hanne Børrestuen.
She brought with her the head of the Main Committee for Environment and Community Development in Nittedal Ap Iren Beisvåg. Storting representative and member of the energy and environment committee Åsmund Aukrust (Ap) added the last day of the election campaign to the launch in Hakadal.
- When the UN's climate report came out this summer, it showed code red for humanity. It is urgent and it concerns us, and then we need someone to lead the way, like NOAH here in Engadalen. What we do is useful. What we all do must be as environmentally friendly as possible. This project actually saves the world a little, says parliamentary representative Åsmund Aukrust (Ap), who sits on the energy and environment committee.
Avfall Norge's head Cecilie Lind congratulated NOAH on the transition to biodiesel and emphasized close and good cooperation with the host municipalities to achieve an ever-increasing need for waste management with a good environmental footprint.
- It is therefore important that we as an industry take responsibility by requesting new solutions from our suppliers, so that they also get signals and predictability for the development work and the investments they are wondering whether they should make. But if we all just sit and wait, very little happens. That's why it's extra important that someone can and will go ahead like you do here, said Lind during the launch.
Operations manager for the reception Hans Arve Flaterud formally launched fossil-free operation by serving "dozer cake", told the deputy mayor that the plant in Engadalen is a child's egg:
Here they receive surplus materials from socially important development projects in the Oslo region, restore and secure land areas, and do this with minimal CO2 emissions, said Børrestuen.
When the fleet now runs with biodiesel from Eriks Oljeservice and ESSO in the tank, the emission savings correspond to the consumption of 100 passenger cars a year. The total emissions from the plant are cut by 90 per cent.
