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The Danish waste model is under continuous development. Since the late 1960s and beginning of 1970s, Denmark has focused on pollution abatement. Environmental problems in connection with waste were put in focus in the 1980s, when national legislation in the area was seriously strengthened. Waste planning was introduced as an instrument for involved authorities. The planning secured an enhanced coordination in all phases of waste disposal, and coordination had to be ensured with other sector planning, physical planning as well as the initiatives based on the law on recycling and waste limitation (1984). Planning thus served as an instrument for the involved authorities, ensuring that waste, through control of waste streams, was disposed of in the most socially advantageous way and that, in choice of disposal methods, it was considered how to reduce the use of natural resources through recycling and limitation of waste. Since the 1990s, national action plans for waste and recycling have formed the basis of further development of the Danish waste model. The Danish waste model has its strength in its forward-looking holistic views and planning. This has to a high extent contributed to Denmark’s position internationally in the area of waste, as a pioneer and model to other countries. 
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The waste hierarchy Correlation between regulation and operation The Danish Model for Sustainable Waste Solutions, Miljøstyrelsen, 2001 
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