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Sweden wants Norway's trash! A lot of it! |
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It might sound ridiculous that a country actually wants trash from another country and not only a small amount but a lot of it.
It is recently reported that Sweden is hunger for trash and turned to its neighbor, Norway for an offer that it finds hard to refuse. Sweden has always been known as the leading country in recycling and recycling technologies and now its success turned into its problem. Thanks to the advanced technology, almost every household in Sweden can recover or reuse its trash. As a result, the country is running short of garbage. Sweden is on an import drive of some eight hundred thousands tons of trash from the rest of Europe per year to use in its power plants. Most of the import is coming from Norway. The waste is to satisfy Sweden's Waste-to-Energy program, with the end goal of converting waste into heat and electricity. Norway is amenable to the agreement as exporting a portion of its trash is more economical than having to burn it. In the plan, toxic waste, ashes remaining from the incineration process, filled with polluting dioxins, will be returned to Norway. While tapping its European neighbors for their garbage might seem unusual, Sweden does not consider itself such an odd duck rather, as a forward-thinker when it comes to energy efficiencies and the use of waste to supply people's energy needs.
For Sweden, burning garbage in incinerators generates district heating and electricity for homes. Earlier this year, Catarina Ostlund, a senior advisor for the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, said that in the future, waste will be valued even more. "Maybe you could sell your waste because there will be a shortage of resources within the world," Ostlund said. Beyond Norway, Sweden also eyes Bulgaria, Romania, Italy and the Baltic countries as possible options for garbage they are countries that "landfill" a higher percentage of waste than Norway. "I hope that we instead will get the waste from Italy or from Romania or Bulgaria or the Baltic countries because they landfill a lot in these countries. They don't have any incineration plants or recycling plants, so they need to find a solution for their waste," she said. |
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10 Comments
thanks
Posted 26-06-2013 01:39
Target for Landfill free city
Posted 08-06-2013 02:30
Well shared
Posted 26-05-2013 00:01
Thanks for informative reporting.
Posted 25-05-2013 16:25
Wow, this is eye-opening information! Thank you for sharing, Thao :D
It's surprising that the recycle system is extremely developed in Sweden.
Posted 23-05-2013 13:36
interesting and inspiring, I wish we had one of those plant in Nepal..
Posted 22-05-2013 23:58
Surprising facts.
Posted 22-05-2013 15:24
very interesting!!!
Posted 22-05-2013 08:28
Wow!interesting and informative, I never knew.
Posted 21-05-2013 20:28
The headline startled me a lot........ It is really pleasing to see that a small country is trying to help another one and itself by this process..........
Good one....
Posted 21-05-2013 20:12