Countries are having trouble trying to find places where they can dump trash that is generated on a daily basis. But Sweden is thinking the opposite way, instead they want more trash, they want it so much that they are actually importing 800,000 tons of it from many different countries. In the 1940's the world never even thought of making a recycling plant, but Sweden was progressive and began to turn their garbage into energy. Even though this has released harmful toxics in the air over the years it has gotten so good at this technique that the garbage has been reduced to a very low level. This recycle plant generates enough energy to provide heat for about 20% or around 810,000 swedish households and electricity for 250,000. And because of the public awareness it has strict laws and only a precent of 4% of all swedish trash ends up in a landfill. 63% of it ends up in USA landfills. Norway, is now sending its trash to Sweden and Bulgaria, Romania, and Italy are considering it too.
So this was really cool to learn about and it was also good because right now in science I am learning a bout recycling. And so if the countries in the world did this that there would not be so much trash in the world, and us, animals, and our environment would not be harmed.
Bibliography
http://www.dogonews.com/2012/11/1/how-sweden-plans-to-turn-the-worlds-trash-into-cash
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