we're in Copenhagen Denmark and behind
me is copan hill it's a waste to energy
plan which turns the city's rubbish into
heat and power but one of the most
remarkable things about it is that
there's a dry ski slope on the roof it's
been designed by Danish architects
Bianca Engels group or big and the whole
point is to create a jewel use for the
building and to make one of the least
desirable places in the city the place
your rubbish goes into somewhere people
actually want to visit my name is Bianca
Engels I'm the founder and creative
director of rocking his group or big and
we are standing in Copenhagen on this
human-made Mountain where you can hike
you can ski what's even more unique
about Copenhagen its waste to energy
power plant in the world there are no
toxins coming out of the chimney just
some steam in this case the innovation
is the clean technology so that meant
that we could completely reimagine what
does a power plant mean my name is Jacob
Simonson I'm the CEO of arc here we
produce so much energy that we are able
to make 19 Olympic sized swimming pools
oil from zero to 200 degrees every day
we treat waste from open hagan and for
other municipalities in the greater
Copenhagen area we service out six
hundred and eighty thousand people every
day we get about 250 to 350 trucks a day
the waste is then dumped into what we
call the bunker
from the bunker it is fitted into the
furnaces the furnaces will will burn
when it burns it will heat up the
district heating water and other part of
the water goes into steam and that steam
runs a turbine the last piece of the
process is the shrubs the big towers you
see out here it is actually an acidic
Tower with calcium to take out the
environmental hazardous products before
we emit clean air and water vapor to
environment in the city you know you're
not supposed to walk on the grass you
have to wait for the green light you
can't climb the facades of the buildings
and this building all the things that
you're normally not supposed to do
you're actually more than welcome to do
at the tallest moment almost 100 meters
there is the tallest climbing wall in
the world here you actually have an
elevator that takes you from the foot of
the mountain to the peak of the mountain
we look out over the city as you rise
you can look in to this Cathedral of
waste-to-energy all along the perimeter
you have more than 200 trees all the
species have been chosen so they can
endure the climate almost 100 meters up
in the air so it's this kind of natural
meadow it feels like a little slice of
Switzerland in the middle of Copenhagen
kokin Hill is a great example of Bianca
Engels concepts of hedonistic
sustainability this idea that just
because something's rooted in
sustainability doesn't mean it can't
also be fun and you don't have to
sacrifice comfort or enjoyment to do
things that are good for the planet it
doesn't have to be a dirty polluting big
ugly box that casts shadows on the
neighbors and blocks the views the most
sort of exciting and dramatic Park in
the city is now sitting on a bedrock of
a power plant