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Post by Guest Sun Sep 07, 2014 5:56 am

Sweden is so efficient at managing waste they’re now importing garbage from other European countries.

Swedes generally waste as much as people in other countries, around 461 kilograms per person each year - but only one percent of that is ending up in landfill, thanks to the country’s innovative “recycling” program.
While the Scandinavian country focusses primarily on reducing waste and reusing and recycling items, it has an important extra step in the waste cycle - it burns half its rubbish to generate energy.
The country has 32 waste-to-energy (WTE) plants, where waste is incinerated to produce steam, which is then used to turn generator turbines and produce electricity. Across Sweden, WTE plants provide almost one million homes with heating, and 260,000 with electricity, Zi-Ann Lum reports for the Huffington Post Canada.
This not only cuts down on the amount of waste that ends up in landfills, it also helps reduce the country’s reliance on fossil fuels.
“A good number to remember is that three tonnes of waste contains as much energy as one tonne of fuel oil … so there is a lot of energy in waste,” Göran Skoglund, spokesperson for Öresundskraft, one of the country’s leading energy companies, explains in the video below.
Each year, more than two million tonnes of trash is burnt in Sweden, which means it’s producing approximately 670,000 tonnes worth of fuel oil energy.

http://sciencealert.com.au/news/20140509-26134.html

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Post by Ben Reilly Sun Sep 07, 2014 7:07 pm

I've heard reports like this and I always have the same question -- why don't all countries, at least in the first world, do this?

Does it have something to do with freedom? ::D::

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Post by Guest Sun Sep 07, 2014 7:22 pm

Ben_Reilly wrote:I've heard reports like this and I always have the same question -- why don't all countries, at least in the first world, do this?

Does it have something to do with freedom? ::D::


Absolutely Ben, it makes perfect sense to me 99 percent of Sweden’s waste is now reused Thumbs46

Priorities perhaps??? Sad

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Post by eddie Sun Sep 14, 2014 7:52 pm

It does make you wonder why we can't all do this??

People in this country are also too lazy to recycle. In my neighbourhood only about 30% of us recycle.
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Post by Ben Reilly Mon Sep 15, 2014 9:01 pm

There are anti-environmental dickweeds everywhere ...

(warning - this video may make you want to commit physical assault)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1PbgwowkeQ
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Post by eddie Mon Sep 15, 2014 9:22 pm

Wolf I have no idea why people say this. I thought it was just me that thought Britain was pretty lazy and generally against recycling!
I have even heard people say that it's wastes more energy for the lorries to come round and collect the waste than the energy we are saving by collecting it!

I recycle religiously.
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Post by eddie Wed Nov 19, 2014 7:06 pm

Hmmmmm. Perxactly!
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