- WtE plants
- 1
- WtE capacity
- 60 kt/a
- Employees
- 131
EMiL Entsorgungswirtschaft Minden-Lübbecke AöR is the public waste management body of Kreis Minden-Lübbecke in North Rhine-Westphalia. It was created on 1 January 2026 by merging the county’s waste operation AML with the county-owned KAVG mbH.
EMiL runs the Pohlsche Heide resource centre in Hille, where residual waste is processed into refuse-derived fuel, and the RDF-fired Heizkraftwerk Minden, which supplies process steam to a neighbouring pharmaceutical plant. A plan to double the Minden plant has been on hold since 2022, while a landfill expansion and a research building at Pohlsche Heide are being prepared.
Key Takeaways
- EMiL is an Public-law institution (Anstalt öffentlichen Rechts, AöR) owned by district Minden-Lübbecke, formed on 1 January 2026 from the Abfallentsorgungsbetrieb Minden-Lübbecke (AML) and the KreisAbfallVerwertungsGesellschaft mbH (KAVG); Henning Schreiber is Vorstand until 2030.
- The Heizkraftwerk Minden burns refuse-derived fuel made at the Pohlsche Heide MBA and has produced process steam for an adjacent pharmaceutical company since 2002. It is permitted for 40,000 t/a of RDF.
- The service area is the district Minden-Lübbecke with its eleven towns and municipalities, which deliver household waste, biowaste and commercial waste to the Pohlsche Heide site in Hille.
- A modernisation and expansion of the Minden plant to 70,000 t/a was permitted in 2021 but suspended by the KAVG supervisory board in November 2022 after the cost estimate rose far above the 2019 figure.
- Current projects are a landfill expansion at Pohlsche Heide, the Smart Recycling Factory research building in a modular variant and an ISO 14001 environmental management system for the Minden plant.
| Founded | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Figures for | 2023 |
| Ownership | WtE Monitor+Available with WtE Monitor+ |
| Revenue | WtE Monitor+Available with WtE Monitor+ |
| Other activities | public waste management authority of Kreis Minden-Lübbecke; mechanical-biological treatment (MBA) and RDF production at Pohlsche Heide; RDF-fired steam plant Minden (process steam for industry); biowaste fermentation and composting (biomethane, humus products); DK II landfill; recycling centres; leachate treatment; CHP units and energy centres for hospitals and the county hall; environmental laboratory |
| Subsidiaries and holdings | WtE Monitor+Available with WtE Monitor+ |
| Projects in progress | WtE Monitor+Available with WtE Monitor+ |
Plants operated by EMiL
- Minden60 kt/a · Germany
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