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Swedes Recycle Under Full Terrorist Threat

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Again, another reason why I love Sweden. Nothing stops Swedes from recycling. Absolutely nothing. Not even a terrorist attack.

Someone pointed this thread out to me on Reddit with a video of Swedes recycling under the terrorist threat they recently had. A rough translation of the text (please Swedes, if I’m wrong, correct me):

When someone looks up the word “Swedish-head” in the dictionary there is these two that are sorting recycling trash while there is a full terrorist threat.

The thread continues to be hilarious, I will share some of the funniest ones with a few translations for those of you who don’t speak Swedish. Like with this one:

om man slutar kallsoterera sa vinner terroristerna

Rough translation? If one stops trash sorting so win the terrorists.

Or here is another one that doesn’t need any translation that I love.

Environment needs to Fika

And lastly, someone who is freaking out about people writing Swedish and English in the same sentence that cracks me up.

Sick in huvet

For those who don’t know Swedish “helt sjukt i huvudet” is “completely sick in the head”.

Oh Sweden, how I love you so. You are the best place to be green, that is for sure. I can’t wait to see you soon!

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Sweden Runs Out of Garbage

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This is old news, but it is one of my favorite facts about Sweden and it is something that can be shared over and over again.

Yes, at the end of 2014, Sweden ran out of garbage and started importing it from other countries such as Norway and the UK.

Say what?!?

Yes, the Swedish recycling program is doing so well that only 1% of Sweden’s waste goes into landfills. The rest, is either burned or it is turned into biofuel. I wrote an article on this when I lived in Sweden on how impressed I was with Swedish recycling and how Sweden was turning me green.

Swedish-Waste-1998-2007The Swedish Waste Management has a great PDF in English that talks about what Sweden is up to when it comes to turning waste into energy.  So far, I believe they are the world’s greatest example and hopefully something other countries can start to replicate.

You can see that they have slowly been recycling more and producing less waste.  The waste they recycle is turned into energy for heating homes and electricity.  And they are so darn good at it, that they need more trash to recycle to meet their quota. They now import 700,000 tons of waste from other countries to recycle.

 

Watch the video above and see how importing garbage is great business for Sweden!