Wednesday 21 December 2016

A Country Runs Out Of Garbage

Sweden has been incredibly successful in terms of its waste management. Only four percent of the household waste goes into landfills. The rest is either recycled or used as fuel for energy generation. Sweden has the world’s most energy efficient plants that use garbage in their incinerators.  The burning of garbage in incinerators generates twenty percent of Sweden’s district heating, where heated water is pumped into pipes through residential & commercial buildings. Electricity for about a quarter of million homes is also generated from it.
The energy generated from the waste has been increased exponentially over last few years. The waste generated is less than what is getting consumed in the incinerators & to overcome this challenge Sweden has found a solution in the form of export. Yes, you read that right. Sweden is a country that exports waste to meet their energy demands. To meet their growing energy demands they export waste from neighboring European countries. The majority of waste comes from Norway. In Norway its comparatively costlier to burn waste as compared to exporting it.
The Environmental challenge

But with this imported waste comes a major challenge in the form of dioxins, a waste bi-product that poses a serious environmental threat. To overcome that challenge the ashes are exported back to Norway where they are land filled. This helps Sweden in meeting their energy demands at a low cost while also staying safe from the environmental threat that the bi-products pose. 

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