'We actually receive a small amount of waste from the UK and you pay us to take it.

And down in the depths of the plant, groundbreaking carbon capture technology is being developed to remove all C02 from the emissions.Īs the boss Jacob Simonsen tells me: 'We are part of the city and we're proud to be a part of the solution. The smoke is purified, so no toxins are pumped out into the atmosphere. As a fellow skier on the roof tells me: 'It's a monument, like the Eiffel Tower, which is crazy because it's literally garbage!'Įvery day 350 truck-loads of rubbish, which can't be recycled, are brought into the centre and burnt - heating water that's piped directly into 680,000 local homes, via a district heating system. In this Danish vision of a greener future, it seems power stations can be re-imagined: no longer dirty, ugly, polluting eyesores. What does the UK's net zero goal mean and how will it affect our everyday lives?