Swedish trash schizophrenia
Submitted by everydaytrash
Victor, our man in Stockholm, sent just me this troubling story from Swedish National Public Radio. Apparently the trash incineration biz in Sweden is outpacing waste production by Swedes. They’ve built so many new facilities that trash must now be imported from other European countries just to meet the demand to burn it up: 600,000 tons in the last year alone.
As you may recall from this book recommendation earlier this month, Sweden also exports electronic waste to Ghana—one kind of trash in, another out. Aside from burning trash not being the best for the environment, all that waste hauling must be taking up shitloads of energy. With two tips in one month, I’m upgrading Victor to Eurotipster Extraordinaire and look forward to more strange garbage news otherwise hidden from the non-Swedish-speaking world.
Photo of Japanese incinerator ripped from the Global Environment Centre Foundation.
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