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Sweden runs out of garbage, imports from other countries
The Hindu ^ | December 12, 2016 | Staff

Posted on 12/12/2016 12:40:52 PM PST by Trump20162020

Sweden has run out of garbage and the Scandinavian country has been forced to import rubbish from other countries to keep its state-of-the-art recycling plants going.

Sweden, which sources almost half its electricity from renewables, was one of the first countries to implement a heavy tax on fossil fuels in 1991. Sweden’s recycling system is so sophisticated that only less than one per cent of its household waste has been sent to landfill last year.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: garbage; sweden; trash

1 posted on 12/12/2016 12:40:52 PM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Well, I guess that explains the influx of militant Islamic rapefugees.


2 posted on 12/12/2016 12:42:04 PM PST by XEHRpa
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To: Trump20162020

Send US Media to Sweden.


3 posted on 12/12/2016 12:42:43 PM PST by jennychase
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To: jennychase

Amen!


4 posted on 12/12/2016 12:44:46 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!!)
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To: XEHRpa

That’s garbage, alright.


5 posted on 12/12/2016 12:45:52 PM PST by mikeIII
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To: Trump20162020
Sweden’s recycling system is so sophisticated that only less than one per cent of its household waste has been sent to landfill last year.

On the surface, that seems highly efficient. But burning the garbage to generate energy seems shortsighted. Kind of like when the US added MTBE to gasoline in order to make it burn more efficiently, only to find out the MTBE was finding its way into our water supplies.

6 posted on 12/12/2016 12:49:11 PM PST by CatOwner
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To: Trump20162020

You know, I heard about that. It seems that Malmo was too peaceful, and the women were able to walk around without being raped. That was no good, so Sweden imported garbage from other countries, and now any White woman who goes to Malmo will be raped.
Guess that’s what the Swedish government wanted in the first place.


7 posted on 12/12/2016 12:53:12 PM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: CatOwner

Uhhhh... that’s not what MTBE was originally added for. MTBE was added as an anti-knock agent when we decided to remove lead from gasoline (which was causing big health problems) so engines wouldn’t self-destruct. Gasoline needs anti-knock agents to burn in internal combustion engines. The oxygenate nature of MTBE was just a side effect and bonus... or so it was thought.

Amusingly, when lead was banned from gasoline, MTBE was selected instead of a bismuth-based solution from (I think) DuPont. Bismuth is pretty inert and isn’t known to cause any health issues. However, the Democrats decided that they didn’t want to trust DuPont and went with MTBE instead, which turned out to have big nasty effects, like rendering water undrinkable at even minute concentrations. Whoops.


8 posted on 12/12/2016 1:10:41 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.d)
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To: Trump20162020

Shows the stupidity of the average government liberal. On one hand, they make it almost illegal to throw out any trash. Each home in Sweden has something like seven different recycle bins for virtually everything.

They also have a growing rat problem because the recyclables are dumped in holding areas because there’s not much to do with quite a bit of the recyclables.

At the same time, they build trash burning energy plants. That might be a great idea provided they have any trash and don’t have to buy it from other countries because their own lemmings have been trained to not throw anything out.

If the cost to burn is lass than the cost of energy, go for it.


9 posted on 12/12/2016 1:15:15 PM PST by cyclotic (Democrats haven't been this mad since we freed their slaves)
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To: Trump20162020

Newsweek has lots of “Madam President” mags they need to dispose of.


10 posted on 12/12/2016 1:36:58 PM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: Trump20162020

If they need garbage, let’s send all the liberals there...


11 posted on 12/12/2016 2:02:01 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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They want garbage? Sweden, Americans got lots of garbage, they are called Liberals? You can have them for FREE.


12 posted on 12/12/2016 4:13:18 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: Trump20162020

Huh. I remember doing this from SimCity. Make a bit of extra $$ charging for it too!


13 posted on 12/13/2016 2:09:12 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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