Denmark has become a... pioneer in... that only 4% of our waste goes into a landfill, 42% is recycled and 54% is transformed into district heating an… - Bjarke Ingels

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Denmark has become a... pioneer in... that only 4% of our waste goes into a landfill, 42% is recycled and 54% is transformed into district heating and electricity. As a power source, 6 pounds of garbage from your kitchens turns into 4 hours of electricity and 5 hours of domestic heating.

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About Bjarke Ingels

(born 2 October 1974) is a Danish architect, founder and creative partner of (BIG).

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Alternative Names: Bjarke Bundgaard Ingels
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[Y]ou have different kinds of es, 4 of them affected by human activity, and of the 4... carbon dioxide and methane... nirous oxide loop and... F-gases... [I]f you have 610 gigatons of carbon in our vegetation, you have a million times more in the sediments, and that's... what we're releasing by burning fossil fuels. So you have two carbon dioxide loops, one takes millions of years as volcanic activity, but then becomes sequestered in rocks and sand and it's then... sedimented on the ocean floors and it's pushed back through tectonic movement into magma... [T]hen you have a more annual loop, which is... living beings absorbing <chem>CO2</chem> and then... releasing it through respiration, decomposition and... human emissions... [C]urrently we are releasing our <chem>CO2</chem> emissions with 4 billion tons per year.

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