As discussed earlier, only 40% of electricity generated (48 kWh/
tonne of collected waste) can be sold to the grid and that can be
credited with avoiding the equivalent amount of conventional
electricity production using virgin resources. The estimated GHG
avoided due to the production of conventional electricity from
waste (48 kWh/tonne of collected waste) amounts to 27 kg CO2-eq/
tonne of waste. The net GHG emissions from incineration were
calculated by subtracting the avoided GHG emissions from the
gross GHG emissions, which amounted to 593 kg of CO2-eq/tonne
of combusted waste, see Fig. 4.