Facts & Figures

30%

The Waste Fired Power Plant (WFPP) has an electrical efficiency of 30%. This is 8% higher than the average waste-to-energy plant.

48%

AEB can produce sustainable energy because 48% of the waste consists of biomass. Energy released from biomass qualifies for CO2-neutral certification.

85%

85% of all discarded electrical appliances are still usable.

99%

99% of waste is recycled.

360

Each day, 360 AEB employees extract maximum value from waste.

500

Two freight trains, with a total length of 500 metres, deliver waste every day.

600

600 garbage trucks per day arrive from Amsterdam, and 20 from adjacent municipalities.

300,000

300,000 gigajoules of district heating per year. A household connected to the district heating grid uses an average of 36 gigajoules per year. In the coming years, 40,000 additional households will be connected to the district heating delivered by AEB.

320,000

Renewable electricity for 320,000 households.

500,000

500,000 trash bags per day. Each household produces an average of 4-5 trash bags a week.

1,000,000

AEB produces 1 million MWh of electricity per year. This is enough to cover the electricity needs of three quarters of Amsterdam’s households. It is also enough to power a 60 watt light bulb for almost 2 million years!

1,400,000

AEB processes over 1.4 million tonnes of waste per year, and is the largest single-location waste processor in the world. 1.4 million tonnes of waste is equal to the total weight of 185,000 African elephants!

470 kt.

In 2007, AEB avoided CO2-emissions equal to 470 kilotonnes by generating energy from waste.