Copenhagen has come up with a brand-new answer: ski down the mountain. Well, not exactly. The waste is actually inside Copenhill, a waste-treatment plant 10 minutes from downtown Copenhagen.

COPENHAGEN – What to do with the mountain of garbage a major metropolitan area produces is an age-old question. Copenhagen has come up with a brand-new answer: ski down the mountain.

CopenHill, also known as Amager Bakke, is a Copenhagen-based heat and waste-to-power plant. It’s also a recreational center that now sports an artificial ski slope – a real draw in flat Denmark.

COPENHAGEN, Feb 13 (Reuters) - What to do with the mountain of garbage a major metropolitan area produces is an age-old question. Copenhagen has come up with a brand-new answer: ski down the mountain.

Landscaped by SLA, a landscape architecture firm based in Copenhagen, the area looks like a mountain field, with 7,000 bushes, 300 pine and willow trees, various plants and real grass that grows ...

CopenHill, also known as Amager Bakke, is a Copenhagen-based heat and waste-to-power plant. It’s also a recreational center that now sports an artificial ski slope – a real draw in flat Denmark.