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Sweden Import Waste For Energy As The Country Run Out Of Waste by centvin008(m): 11:14am On Nov 03, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1Y8GUnSTlQ

Dirty power: Sweden wants your garbage for energy
Trash is a fast-growing import in the Scandinavian country, which turns it into heat for people’s homes
Every day, some 300 trucks arrive at a plant outside the city of Göteborg on the west coast of Sweden. They carry garbage, but they are not there to dump the cargo. Instead, they deliver it to the plant’s special ovens, which burn it, providing heat to thousands of local homes.

“The only fuel we use is waste,” says Christian Löwhagen, a spokesman for Renova, the local government-owned energy company operating the plant. “It provides one-third of heat for households in this region.” Across Sweden, 950,000 homes are heated by trash; this lowly resource also provides electricity for 260,000 homes across the country, according to statistics from Avfall Sverige, Sweden’s national waste-management association.

With Swedes recycling almost half (47 percent) of their waste and using 52 percent to generate heat, less than 1 percent of garbage now ends up in the dump. “Sweden has the world’s best network of district heating plants” — essentially large ovens that use a variety of fuels to generate heat, which is then transported to consumers’ homes through a network of underground pipes — “and they’re well-suited for use of garbage,” says Adis Dzebo, an energy expert at the Stockholm Environment Institute. “By contrast, in many other countries the heat and electricity infrastructure is based on gas or other fossil fuels, so it’s not economical to start building plants that utilize garbage.”

Here’s the problem: Swedes (as well as Germans, Danes, the Dutch and Belgians) have become so good at recycling that there’s no longer enough garbage to meet the heating plants’ needs. Sweden now has to import the trash that most other countries are trying to dispose of — some 800,000 tons in 2014, up from 550,000 tons in 2010, according to Avfall Sverige.

Last year Renova brought in 100,000 tons of foreign garbage, mostly from Britain, in addition to the 435,000 tons supplied by Swedish municipalities. In Stockholm, energy provider Fortum also imports garbage, and in the southern city of Malmö, the Sysav energy company brought in 135,000 tons of waste from Norway and Britain last year, according to the company’s communications director, Gunilla Carlsson. That’s an almost 100 percent leap from the year before. 

“We try to stay up to date on where well-sorted garbage is available,” says Löwhagen. “We only use waste where all recyclable bits have been taken out. In Europe, enormous amounts of garbage are put in landfill, so we’re doing other countries a favor by taking care of it for them.” In order to minimize cost and environmental impact, companies try to get a cheap ride for their garbage on ships going to Sweden that would otherwise have empty holds.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/3/27/sweden-wants-your-garbage-for-energy.html
Lalasticlala please get our energy minister to read this article lol,because we have more than enough garbage to power our dear country
Re: Sweden Import Waste For Energy As The Country Run Out Of Waste by ever811(m): 11:19am On Nov 03, 2016
ABA...over to you...all the dirt wey dey Aba Abia state...alias,the dirtiest city in west Africa.. na Sweden go run say them no want again..
Re: Sweden Import Waste For Energy As The Country Run Out Of Waste by Benjom(m): 11:29am On Nov 03, 2016
We've got plenty of that... but nothing goes for free here o.
Re: Sweden Import Waste For Energy As The Country Run Out Of Waste by Perfecttouch(m): 11:41am On Nov 03, 2016
ever811:
ABA...over to you...all the dirt wey dey Aba Abia state...alias,the dirtiest city in west Africa.. na Sweden go run say them no want again..
han Han,na wa for u o.he just be like say u dey read my mind. Na wetin I wan talk be this now
Re: Sweden Import Waste For Energy As The Country Run Out Of Waste by modsRbastard: 12:15pm On Nov 03, 2016
Aba come to mind
Re: Sweden Import Waste For Energy As The Country Run Out Of Waste by Marcelini(m): 5:10pm On Nov 03, 2016
Nawao.

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