For over 100 years, Denmark has incinerated a large portion of its solid waste in municipally owned waste-to-energy (WTE), combined heat and power (CHP) plants. The Danish government considers WTE to be renewable biomass energy. Today, there are over 30 WTE CHP plants around the country that provide renewable energy in the form of district heating to the surrounding community, and power to the electrical grid. A large fraction of the waste combusted at these plants (over 375,000 tons in 2015) is imported from Western Europe due to decreases in domestic waste flowing into these plants, a result of successful waste reduction programs.