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Has your inflatable toy broken and needs to be thrown away?
In that case, it must actually be sorted as landfill waste. Examples of landfill waste include inflatable pools, inflatable toys, and rubber boots made of soft PVC (a type of plastic). Technology has not yet been developed that allows us to recycle soft PVC and give it a new life.
That's why we're sending your inflatable toy to the landfill.
ARGO operates two closed landfills and one open landfill. At our open landfill,the Audebo Environmental Center, we accept waste that cannot be recycled into new products or used to generate electricity and district heating through incineration. At the Audebo Environmental Center, we primarily accept landfill waste from businesses and recycling centers. Last year, we received 27,482 metric tons of landfill waste.
Examples of waste suitable for landfilling include:
When waste suitable for landfilling is dropped off at the Audebo Environmental Center, we landfill it— that is, we bury it. Landfill waste represents the lowest level of the waste hierarchy.
"This is the kind of waste we'd really like to see less of," explains Camilla Bjerg Pedersen, head of recycling at ARGO, and continues:
“Even though the waste in our landfills serves no useful purpose, the landfills play an important role in our society. For example, if we send contaminated construction waste for recycling, we risk releasing harmful substances into our natural environment.”
We are currently building a new facility at the Audebo Environmental Center so that we will have space to accept, for example, construction waste containing asbestos.
Landfilling is carried out in an environmentally responsible manner, and in 2025, we received 27,482 metric tons of waste for burial at our open landfill, the Audebo Environmental Center. A landfill is a huge hole in the ground where waste can be deposited. The waste is placed on top of a protective layer called a membrane. This is done under strictly regulated conditions to minimize the impact on the environment and the surrounding area.
For example, we have several technical measures in place for collecting and treating leachate (the rainwater that seeps through the landfill waste), controlling landfill gas, and conducting ongoing environmental monitoring of our landfills.
The operations at the Audebo Environmental Center include, among other things, the receipt, registration, and proper placement of waste in the landfill, as well as ongoing environmental monitoring to ensure that the facility is operated in an environmentally responsible manner.
Our two closed landfills are called Køge Landfill and Hedeland Landfill. Although they no longer accept waste, they remain part of a monitoring and maintenance program in accordance with current regulations for landfill aftercare.
Examples of landfill waste from the container at one of our recycling centers.