• Sweden Runs Out of Garbage: Starts Buying Norway's
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[quote]Sweden, birthplace of the Smörgåsbord, Eric Northman, and the world’s preferred solar-powered purveyor of flat-pack home furnishings, is in a bit of a pickle: the squeaky clean Scandinavian nation of more than 9.5 million has run out of garbage. The landfills have been tapped dry; the rubbish reserves depleted. And although this may seem like a positive — even enviable — predicament for a country to be facing, Sweden has been forced to import trash from neighboring countries, namely Norway. Yep, Sweden is so trash-strapped that officials are shipping it in — 80,000 tons of refuse annually, to be exact — from elsewhere. You see, Swedes are big on recycling. So big in fact that only 4 percent of all waste generated in the country is landfilled.[/quote] [url]http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/recycling/blogs/sweden-runs-out-of-garbage-forced-to-import-from-norway[/url] Wicked. Damn it all, you read current news and expect news in the "Popular right now" column to also be current. My bad.
Thu, Oct 25 2012 at 9:30 AM
FOUR PERCENT OF THE WASTE GOES TO A LANDFILL Jesus christ, make everywhere sweden
This is so late I dont even remember how long ago this was posted, and with the same title.
Now if only shit like this worked in my Simcity. Or if Simcity worked too...
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