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Sweden Wants to Import Your Trash

By on April 28, 2013 in News

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NPR:

Move over Abba, Sweden has found new fame. The small Nordic country is breaking records — in waste. Sweden’s program of generating energy from garbage is wildly successful, but recently its success has also generated a surprising issue: There is simply not enough trash.

Only 4 percent of Swedish garbage ends up in a landfill, according to Swedish Waste Management. Due to its efficiency in converting waste to renewable energy, Sweden has recently begun importing around 800,000 tons of trash annually from other countries.

Norway is now paying Sweden to take its garbage. Swedish sights are also set on Bulgaria, Romania and Italy as future trash exporters, as Catarina Ostlund, a senior advisor for the country’s environmental protection agency, told PRI. Those countries rely heavily on landfills – a highly inefficient and environmentally degrading system

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  • http://twitter.com/ugobozz007 ugo chukwu

    Hello what kind of dirt is permissible. Do they pay for it. How do iget in touch with someonein charge

  • Ohis Benson

    Interesting!

  • Cathy

    Please give us some specifics, like how much is required, what are they willing to pay per ton? I have some that I could export from Africa……can they e-mail me directly?

  • Ashish Sanyal

    Who does on contact in Sweden for more details on the same?

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