Sweden Must Import Trash For Energy Conversion Because Its Recycling Program Is So Successful

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14. Not trying to be rude

I think you skimmed over the article a bit to quick "Because it has become so good at recycling, Sweden now is importing 800,000 tons of trash each year from other European countries, including Norway, to power its waste-to-energy program, Public Radio International reports. Burned waste powers 20 percent of Sweden's district heating as well as electricity for roughly 250,000 Swedish homes."

From the link at huffpo it go's on to say "Sweden has recently begun to import about eight hundred thousand tons of trash from the rest of Europe per year to use in its power plants. The majority of the imported waste comes from neighboring Norway because it’s more expensive to burn the trash there and cheaper for the Norwegians to simply export their waste to Sweden.http://www.pri.org/stories/science/environment/swedes-import-trash-to-power-the-nation-10428.html