Waste Infrastructure
The world produces ever more waste. To protect natural resources, transforming the economy towards circularity—and ensuring an efficient infrastructure to do so—is critica
We close the loop on waste
We support our clients’ efforts to achieve resource efficiency, material circularity, regulatory compliance, optimise resource flows, and ensure the safe handling, treatment and disposal of waste that cannot re-enter the material loop.
In this way, waste infrastructure – such as recycling stations and landfills – is central to conserving limited natural resources and ensuring a sustainable future.
Our range of services
- Strategy and planning
- Collection system design
- Civic amenity centres
- Landfill siting, permitting and environmental impact assessments
- Waste minimization, resource recovery and recycling
- Anaerobic digestion / biogas facilities
- Advanced mechanical sorting facilities
- Landfill engineering evaluation and design
- Wastewater, groundwater and leachate collection, control and treatment systems
- Passive and active landfill gas collection, control and treatment systems
- Hazardous waste management
- Construction and closure management
- Carbon capture and Storage/Utilisation (CCS/CCU) solutions
Explore our services
Engineering and design
Creating a more sustainable future through engineering and design excellence for our clients.
Health, safety and risk
Combining scientific, design and technical expertise with global reach and experience, we deliver pragmatic and sustainable solutions that are protective of human health and safety.
Operations and Asset Management
Creating value for asset owners and operators by maximising performance, extending lifetime, and lowering operational costs.
Featured projects
Featured projects
Amager Bakke: leader in waste-to-energy
A 10-year partnership between Ramboll and Copenhagen-based utility pushes the envelope for carbon capture, circular economy, and energy from waste, at the world's most efficient waste-to-energy plant.
Carbon capture for net-zero Copenhagen
Full-scale carbon capture plant at Copenhagen waste-to-energy facility, Amager Bakke, that will capture 500,000 tonnes of CO2 annually by end 2025, helping the Danish capital become carbon neutral.
What we offer
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Recycling stations
We advise clients plan, design, tender and supervise recycling and transfer stations. And we train staff at advanced resource recovery and waste treatment and disposal facilities.
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Circular business models
We support industries and businesses develop circular business models that preserve materials. In this way, we support clients in ‘greening’ their supply chain, which is fast becoming a differentiator in many industries.
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Landfills
We work with public and private sector clients on landfill projects – ranging from municipal solid waste landfills to industrial and hazardous waste landfills as well as radioactive materials. Using a risk-based approach, we tailor evaluations of existing landfills. This provides opportunities to extend the lifetime of assets, reduce costs and bring landfills into regulatory compliance.
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Our people
Torben Kristiansen
Country Market Director, Environment & Health, Denmark
+45 51 61 05 93
Ferdinand Zotz
Principal; Head of Waste and Resource Unit
+49 89 978970141