Sweden.. the country that imports waste to produce energy

ArabiaWeather.com - Mohamed Salameh - Sweden has reached advanced stages in the field of waste recycling and conversion into energy, until it imports waste from neighboring European countries such as Norway.

The Scandinavian country is considered one of the countries ranked at the forefront in the field of benefiting from the energy generated from waste incineration. Approximately 20% of electricity in Sweden is generated from waste recycling.

Although the Swedish people produce the same amount of waste as other Europeans annually, less than 1% of household waste ends up in landfills, and the reason is that Swedish society is used to classifying waste from homes, so plastic, paper, and metal are separated. and glass. Food waste is also separated, while trucks transport the sorted waste to recycling stations across the country.

In recycling plants, the materials that can be reused are separated, while the rest is burned in specialized plants to produce electricity. Sweden has followed procedures and policies aimed at mitigating the emissions damage resulting from the incineration process, and this is what made Sweden benefit to the maximum degree from every ton of waste, and therefore It can be said that Sweden is one of the most environmentally friendly countries in the world.