About Waste Centre Denmark The purpose of Waste Centre Denmark – the national Danish Information Centre on Waste – is to collect, systematise and communicate Danish as well as international information about waste and resources to professionals in the waste management sector.
Waste Centre Denmark has a staff of four key persons. We are your contacts when you call or visit us. Furthermore, we draw on a large number of expert staff.
Waste Centre Denmark is financed through the Danish Appropriation Act and administered by the Danish Environmental Protection Agency. Rambøll Denmark, www.ramboll.dk hosts the Waste Centre Denmark from 2005 to 2008. Waste Center Denmark has been situated in Rambøll since 2001.
The work of Waste Centre Denmark is followed and monitored in a steering committee with broad representation from the sector:
Leif Mortensen, affald danmark
Suzanne Arup Veltzé, DAKOFA
Allan Andersen, Danmarks Naturfredningsforening
Thomas H. Christensen, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
Lisbet Hagelund Hansen, Dansk Industri
Birgit Munk-Kampmann, Det europæiske Temacenter for ressourcer og affald
M.Sc. civil engineering, Ph.D. from the Technical University of Denmark
Janus Kirkeby is responsible for the technical content of the homepage for the Waste Centre Denmark.
Janus has been working thoroughly with life cycle assessment (LCA) on solid waste management systems during his Ph.D. and other research work at the Technical University of Denmark. He also has experience in international project administration from his previous job in Carl Bro Group.
Birgit Holmboe
M.Sc. in environmental biology from University of Copenhagen, 1980. Birgit Holmboe is head of Waste Centre Denmark with day-to-day responsibility for all activities of the Centre.
For more than 20 years, Birgit has worked in the waste management area. For the first five years of her career she worked in the Greater Copenhagen Council with responsibility for waste planning. Since 1987 she has been project manager in RAMBØLL on waste management projects in Denmark and abroad. By the end of the 80s, assignments focused on first generation waste plans and regulations for a large number of Danish local councils. Up through the 90s, the major Danish assignment was ISAG – the Danish waste management information system for which Birgit was project manager right from the start. Furthermore, her CV is marked by many assignments abroad. Birgit has been head of Waste Centre Denmark since 2001.
Lotte Fjelsted
Cand.Polyt. from Technical University of Denmark, 2006.
