The Department of Environmental Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark invites applications for a position as PhD student on the topic: Composition of municipal waste and recyclables. Up-to-date data for assessing resources, energy and contaminants in waste.
The project aims at generating up-to-date information about the waste composition in Denmark as platform for assessing resources, energy and contaminants in Danish municipal waste and recyclables. The project addresses the waste at the point of generation including source separated recyclables. Current data on the general waste composition are more than 10 years old and very little data exists on the composition of recyclables including misplaced items.
The student will work at the Department of Environmental Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark with Associate Professor Thomas Astrup as main supervisor. Senior Researcher, PhD Jacob Mller and PostDoc, PhD Alessio Boldrin are co-supervisors. The student will part of the time collaborate with Econet (Claus Petersen), which is the main company performing waste sorting analysis in Denmark.
PhD scholarship in Composition of municipal waste and recyclables
