Why Sweden imports waste from other countries

I came across this article on palmchat and this left me wondering. We live in a country where wastes dump sites are more than the number of industries and yet Sweden has declared an intention to start importing wastes.

It will interest you to know that Sweden has run out of waste and the Scandinavian country has announced it's intention to import wastes from other countries of the world just to be able to keep the country going.

If you are as confused as I was, Here are reasons why Sweden ventured into waste importation.

1. Sweden sources half of it's electricity from renewables:
They generate half of the electricity from recycled waste materials.

2. Sweden generates heat from wastes.


Anna-Carin Gripwall, Director of Communications for Avfall Sverige, the Swedish Waste Management's recycling association said;
"Swedish people are quite keen on being out in nature and they are aware of what we need do on nature and environmental issues. We worked on communications for a long time to make people aware not to throw things outdoors so that we can recycle and reuse,"

Sweden have been importing wastes from countries like Norway and England. These countries pay Sweden to take care of their waste even as Sweden use it to generate heat and electricity.

Presently, Sweden recycling plants need to go on working and it has a shortage of waste.

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Why we black-nation doesnt improved in brain to build new things? and we almost bn killd here with wastes.

Nigeria dey busy dey dump their own for ocean. Killing sea animals and contaminating our water space.

This country never gets anything right.

When it's so expensive to dispose here... LAWMA brought us a 20k a month bill, 60k for 3 months, just to get rid of household waste and they were even giving us a deadline like they can actually pay such to get rid of waste

Great, would I need an export license to ship our wastes out?

egopersonified:
Great, would I need an export license to ship our wastes out?

our wastes aren't sorted out, it is a perfect definition of rubbish. They have not started importing from Africa sha.

can't our govt learn from this but all they know is how to steal money...

egopersonified:
Great, would I need an export license to ship our wastes out?

una wastes na so so shit plenty for der, na to dey troway shit inside psp

[quote author=Largas post=51832592]Nigeria dey busy dey dump their own for ocean. Killing sea animals and contaminating our water space.

This country never gets anything right

Largas:
Nigeria dey busy dey dump their own for ocean. Killing sea animals and contaminating our water space.

This country never gets anything right.

We don tire
Even if well meaning person tries to do the right thing the GODFATHERS of naija politics go block road

Africa Maka y? Which way nw? Meanwhile c wetin oyibo dey do. We tlk say power no dey yet c as mountains of waste boku 4 our side. Shey d brain wey oyibo take dey use waste 2 provide electricity no dey our own head? CHAI!!! I just wish say otunba Gaddafi (founder of DMT) no die o. Na wetin im b wan do den bt im still dey try arrange am b4 im kpai.

news like this can only make you wonder how you ended up in Nigeria

Unbelievably wonderful.

Interesting