We have no idea how we hadn't heard of this before!? Sweden is truly leading the way in the World with recycling & waste management! This is an eye-opening video that although brief, shows what Sweden is doing to get to 100% Recycling and having virtually NO WASTE! While some may disagree with some of the methods, we found this to be super impressive! Sweden also takes in ten percent of the United Kingdom's waste too! This shocked us! Well done Sweden! We can all learn from you! Do you do your part for our planet? Let us know in the comments. Happy Valentine's Day Everyone! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
I live in a house and we recently got a third recycle bin apart from food waste and ordinary waste. The third bin contains pretty much small buckets where you put colored or clear glass, metals, plastic and cardboard. So all of these are picked up at your property.
The irony of it is that its super profitable. Different companies ave to bid to do the garbage disposal (well depends on from municipality to municipality). Then the garbage fee is regulated to the biding price, typically pushing it down. They missed the gas part. They produce gas, electricity and heat. Heat makes the most power (mainly because they make mostly heat). I would argue that Finland is probobly one step a head of Sweden where they have plasma reduction where they not only can burn the garbage, they get a higher amount of electricity and gas out of it (that have higher value) and in steed of ash they get the raw material back out of the process. Like Iron, Bauxite, copper-oxide and other material that can be worked into no products. (last time i checked there was only one of those burners, but that was a few years back)
I live in Malmö (360 000 inhabitants, in southernmost Sweden). The video was true and honest when recorded. We once had a modern nuclear power plant 20 miles away. The environmental movement happened so it was dismantled. To replace that plant we got (at that time) the worlds most modern and clean power plant (Öresundsverket). It was ment to use Natural gas but could use almost anything as fuel (gas, oil, garbage, wood, cow dung...). This was however not good enough for the environmentalists (Greta Thunberg happened) so it was dismantled and sold in parts, to the highest bidder. To replace the power and heat generated, we got loads of windmills and a 822 mile long power line, giving us energy from the hydro power generated in the northern part of Sweden. We now have enormous server halls belonging to Facebook, UA-cam.. (they pay less than 10% of the production cost). They are obviously situated in the north because that's where the energy is. We have lately gotten several industries that use more energy than the entire country of Finland generate. We produce 0,4% of the global CO2 exhaust but that is somehow to much. To stop that (we need more CO2 in the atmosphere) we build windmills. Without the Swedish new clear power and hydro, Denmark could build 14525222287272828272 trillion new windmills without benefiting. Large Producers stabilise the net but windmills destabilize it. A generator must weigh hundreds of tons to be beneficial over time (over time=0,5 seconds). The thing to look at is the Herz generated and how to get every producer to work at the same frequency. Basic science say that the environmental movement have a goal that is impossible to reach EVER!
i live in sweden so yes i have heard it before. if you want a short youtube clip that have information about then this check out Innovative Techs clip called "HOW SWEDEN TURNS ITS WASTE INTO GOLD" it is 8 min long and is from 1 year ago but if you want a longer youtube clip that have information about this then check out Journeyman Pictures clip called "The Hidden Truth Behind Sweden's Waste Disposal Infrastructure" it is around 26 min long but it is from about 5 years ago. hope this help
She says Sweden has started its recycling journey in the 70-tis and is now recycling close to 100%. But she complains about some parts like the material that could not be separated and used for other things that are burned. This is material that would end up in landfills in Sweden and countries that are exporting the waste to Sweden. At the same time, she also says France has started to sort its trash in some areas and hopefully get a higher percentage of recycling. Landfills are still growing in France. So for me, it seems it would be better if it was turned into heat and electricity than just building big pile of trash in the nature. She also talks about composting for example and Sweden is already taking care of food waste and turning it into gas for buses and cars and earth for growing. But of course, everything can be better and it's not like Sweden has stopped developing when it comes to recycling and is doing more and more every year. Both when it comes to how products are produced and what types of materials, to how it is recycled.
Also rember that importing other country's trash reduces that country's land fill material, until they can copy the the methods. We help each other now, and figure out new things as we go along
She's to the left politically. They have a habit of attacking the solution rather than the problem, which is why their own solutions generally aren't very effective.
And Cars my private car can run on Biogas Also wastewater ir turned into Biogas. Biogas is the same gas as Natural gas and 90% cleaner than Petrol and without all the cancer produsing waste only recykled CO2 and steam.
@@ianmarywilliamsDon't believe everything you hear about "muslim ghettos". Some people spread lies to further their own agenda. And all of Sweden recycle waste the same way. It's not optional, it's the law.
@@ianmarywilliams i would have no idea as im not living anywhere near either stockholm,gothenburg or malmö. they are the only places i could assume there are any.
@@ItsMeYush Can only speak for north Stockholm , there are several ghettos , but they only have 40% muslims rounding up , so its dishonest to call it muslim ghettos , for exampel Rinkeby has always been a ghetto where the poorest have lived and as a consequense have had high crime rates , long before muslims showed up. Also might add that the recycling is worse , but nothing that cant be fixed with education.
I live on Sweden's largest island, Gotland. Here we make gas from food scraps on the whole island. And we operate the island's regular buses and government cars.
Sweden also invented a machine that can sort colored glass from transparent, since the re-melting process requires it to be seperated, they put all glass into one big machine, out comes colored and transparent in each container, they use optic lasers that scan the glass, it's so cool and so clever.
Colored and clear glass are separated at the recycling stations (different containers), so I imagine that machine just picks up stray bottles and the like.
There are currently 53 power stations in the U.K running on waste. The county I live in recycles 70% of waste, amazing how this has improved of the past 20 years.
I work in one and once the waste has been used for the power station it is then recycled, metals separated and sold then the aggregate left over is used as construction materials. ua-cam.com/video/c3iJuBNtoQA/v-deo.html
I know big places like Meadowhall shopping mall in Sheffield use all their waste packaging to produce heating & lighting & have done for years, I don't know if the Metro Centre in Newcastle et al do the same, but I would imagine they do...so we're not too doing too bad in the UK are we if we're at 70%? It would be nice to reach 100%, though. I know some people can't be bothered to recycle, but it benefits us all in the long run. If you wouldn't have waste building up in your house, why would you want it building up on the planet?
I live in a house in Sweden. We have 3 large bins with compartments for these: - Biowaste - Metal - Plastic - Clear glass - Tinted/colored glass - Cardboard - Paper - Misc/burnable waste We also have a bin for garden waste like grass cuttings, sticks and so on. At the supermarket there’s a station to return your pop/beer cans (you get about 10-20cent per can in return). We also have centers where you can deposit lager things, utilities, chemicals and misc..all garbage must be sorted
@@lynnhamps7052 I am in the UK as well and all we get in my area is black bin and blue bin all other bins you have to pay for the garden waste bin you pay for and have to pay a yearly amount for as well, If the bins break you then have to pay again for a replacement
@@lynnhamps7052 You are better than us in the Midlands then, because we only have bins for rubbish, paper and recycling. We do not yet recycle into 8 separate and different compartments here.
We have something called "Pant" in Sweden( also common in the other nordic countries but also in some other). When you buy a soda bottle or can you pay an extra fee of 1-2kr and when you recycle the can/bottle you get that fee back. That way people are more keen to actually recycle the can/bottles and if you throw them away some one else will pick it up and recycle it and earn that money back. All stores that sell "Pant" are obligated to also recycle and repay Pant to the customers. We have also started to bring the recycle stations to our own homes. I have two waste bins for my house, the bins are divided into 4 compartments each and I can sort cardboard, paper, plastic, clear glass, colored glass, metal and food waste in those. We also have a addition where we can sort batteries and bulbs. Things that you can't recycle at home you will have to take to a recycle center station, there are a few in my small city, you just drive your car into the station and sort the things you want to throw away and then drive home again. No registration, no fee, no nothing.
Too add to that I don't think I've been at any home that doesn't have some sort of collection for cans or bottles of drinks as we overwhelmingly most of the time never throw or cans or bottles in the trash. Instead later take the collection and return it to one of the recycle station (which is most convenience stores as well) and get the money back that we paid extra when we bought the can/bottle. That's how most Swedes handle it.
Some years ago I was taken on a tour of a massive waste disposal site near Malmo in the southwest of Sweden. We were able to look down into the furnace where they disposed of the non-recyclable stuff and were given a presentation on how the smoke from the fire was cleaned of pollutants before letting out into the atmosphere. Then we were taken for a drive around the area suitable waste was left to compost naturally for several months. This plant processed all the waste for the waste for the whole province of Scania in Sweden.
Thing is Sweden (yes I am a Swed) can do better and France is not very good at it. I believe she talks about improving all over Europe. It's her job to nit-pick so to speak.
Oh, did you also hear the mocking tone when she said Sweden had taken quite a while to figure things out, but countries like Italy make the changes in two or three years? Because the reason can't be that Sweden was first out, making all the mistakes in order to find reliable solutions that others can just implement now, without actually having to experiment themselves?
It might come as a suprise to you, but she's not France. As an individual she can complain about both Sweden AND France, regardless of her nationality.
We recycle almost everything. Food scraps become gas for cars. Synthetic diesel comes from forest raw materials. Agriculture is the cleanest in the world in terms of cleanliness in production and the food is free from antibiotics and other chemicals. Everyone is educating themselves to protect the environment. Work is constantly progressing in all areas for a better environment for humans and animals.
The closest recycle station is less than 100 meters from my apartment and the food waste recycling station is on our yard. It's actually very difficult to find any garbage at home that I can't drop in the closest recycle station. There is even a recycle station for old batteries. The only things I can't throw away is electronics. For those I have to get to a larger recycling station a couple of kilometers away. Actually, in our apartment building we provide a large garbage container with a separate part for electronics, twice a year, where all members in our apartment building can drop garbage to large to fit in the normal garbage station, like old sofas, chairs, etc. It's actually the law from this year that all apartment buildings in Sweden has to provide their own food recycling stations (for the compost). Of course the city will still empty these stations. For our building we have provided that since 2019.
Många av Elgigantens butiker har nu återvinnings boxar för electronik i entren. Påminner om pantstationerna du sorterar olika el saker separat även glödlampor. 🎉
Hello girls! Im working in an inland port in SWEDEN, Västerås and we have a really big plant that produce power and heat/warming to a very big area. The import of waste from the UK islands are dryed , pressed and packed in square plastic bales, like the ones you see in the fields. And of course we have all the waste from our local area as well. We discharge the bales in pair with a smooth grab so no waste in bulk. I think the plant swollows 60-70 tons/hour.
Yes, we in Finland do almost the same as in Sweden. For biowaste we, here in Oulu, have experimental biogasfuel plant for car and buss fuel. And yes, you girls are correct about political nitpicking. Not to mension the illegal child labor, "Cheap China Made" -subcontracting, corruption, political lobbying and the "One use, disposable consumption" -culture that the major electronic and apparel manufacturers lean on, to boost their sales for consumer products. Fun fact: 1/3 of all the worlds water pollution comes from textile and apparel manufacturing and one adult T-shirt requires 2700 litres / 713,2645006668 gallons of water to be manufactured.
Yeah... and the people doing the dying of the textiler die in an early age due to the to i coloring, cancer is a common illness...and malformed children is born.
Our city (of 90k people) here in Sweden makes gas out food waste and other organic material and our public transport network runs on the gas collected from that waste. the city itself discounting the most rural areas is almost 100% warmed up with a central heating system that mainly uses waste from the wood processing industry. Our apartment complex has its own recycling stations, but there is more about 200meters away from us and for bulky things like old furniture there is 2 shops that can collect your furniture as well as a large recycling centre that that processes a lot more things than what most other sites will accept. Like electronics and more dangerous substances.
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow as for the incineration issue. those plants are built in such a way that somewhere around 95% of the smoke you saw is basically water vapor rather than CO2 and even less of anything harmful escaping from that. It is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination and the re-use, rather than just recycling, of things could be actually higher than it currently is. But i think that is a bit of a generational issue, where some of the older people struggles more to adapt to the system.
What is shown from Stockholm is found in all of Sweden, and all municipalities have second hand shops. There, people can leave clothes, furniture, books, kitchen equipment, crockery, yes, everything that can still be used, you test the things and then sell them again for a cheap price
As someone who lives in the same city, the Re:tuna mall is the first stop when you're looking for stuff. The point of it is not that it's all second hand though, it's that it's built in conjunction with one of the main recycling stations, so first you roll over the ramp and dump stuff that doesn't work, and then you go to the next ramp with the stuff that might work and that goes to the mall. The staff at some of those shops also do some advanced dumpster diving. I also agree that incineration is not recycling, but the point is that by now, less than 1% goes to landfills. That nitpicker works for a private organization that relies heavily on donations. Singing the company song is just expected, i guess..:)
In Norway we do this too, but Sweden might do it more. We get free paper bags for food waste, we get free plastic bags for plastic etc. Outside we have a blue bin for paper, a green bin for general waste, a brown bin for organic waste. Each bin has a microchip registered to your address. We also recycle all plastic bottles because we pay a bottle fee when we buy drinks, and that money is returned when you return the bottle to the store. I believe Sweden also has the bottle fee thing. It's great because the fee is small enough for you not to notice it when you buy, you just assume it's part of the price, and when you return a lot of plastic bottles it feels like they give you money! :D
Don't know if this exists in other countries than Sweden but I have a phone app where I scan the bar code on all the food packaging we recycle. The app keeps track of it and you get a small amount of money back for most of them in the form of coupons in different stores or money to your bank account if you wish. No large amount of cash of course but it's better than not getting anything! 😀
The same thing is done here in Sheffield in Northern England. It's quite common to see those bins in European cities on most street corners. Barcelona has those. France has since banned internal flights because their train system is so good. Thanks for uploading, ladies.
I live in Stockholm, we get bins from the state for separating plastics, organic waste, paper, metal, glass, electronics etc son that when we throw our garbage they are already separated when the trucks comes and pick it up. For larger waste there are recycling plants close by where I can drive and throw in sperate containers for each type of waste. Have been doing this since the early 90's and most Swedes do this, in fact I can't think of a single person I know who don't recycle. Edit: recycling hasn't improved in Sweden because we've been at almost 100%, hard to do more than that. In fact we do as we recycle waste from other countries aswell.
Sweden is very impressive indeed. In Wales 67% of all waste is recycled and this year it becomes law that all businesses must sort and recycle their waste. At the moment we have 3 local authority bins for recycling, organic, recycling and material that cannot currently be recycled and we are issued with outdoor bins and a kitchen bin and bags for food waste. Caerphilly local authority has taken the matter and its environmental impact very seriously. Even bulkier items are recycled into separate areas when you take them to the community skips. There fridges, freezers, car batteries, TV, computers, wood, furniture etc are all recycled. Maybe America could look at this???
In Sweden different regions have different recycling systems and different formats. Where I live I have 2 large bins with 4 compartments each for burnables, carton, newspaper, plastic, compostables, metal, clear glass and colored glass, as well as 2 attachable small boxes for batteries, smaller electrical components, and light sources. In the small village there is also a recycling station for more categories of waste in larger containers. The station is free to use for local, but the bins you have to have on your property is expensive to have and you can't opt out. I think it's around 50$ a month or so, but I could be wrong. It's true most landfills are gone but the work of santizing them is ongoing. People are more aware of putting their waste in the correct compartments, but there are also people who don't care, of course.
I'm living on the south east coast of Sweden (Oskarshamn) and I have worked with garbagetrucks like 10 years ago and then visited many recyclingplants and landfills all over Sweden and on every site they where now producing natural gas from the old landfills and no more waste was dumped there anymore. The way we sort the garbage differ around the country. Where I live we have one garbagebin but two different plastic bags, one is red and it's used for householdwaste that is not recyclable and one bag is green and are used for compost like food and other organic stuff. Then you tie them up with a doubleknot and throw them in the same bin. On the wasteplant a machine then sort the bags by color and the red bag will be burnt and the green one being natural gas and then fertilizer. On other places there are even more bags with other colors for sorting even more different stuff at home instead of going with the recycling waste to the recyclingstations by yourself. However the bags are NOT for free, but is included in a monthly fee to the county for the garbagehandling. This has been the case in many many years (decades) in Sweden but have been more and more developed over time.
Not seen it in the comments. In my small Swedish town they have routed the return pipes for the central heating shallow under some main streets and roundabouts to keep them snow and ice free in the winter. The lower return temps makes the (waste burning) power plant more efficient so its more or less free.
I think we can all do more. Less plastic purchases for a start (I have a kid with 1000 (he exaggerates) plastic toys). We make sure we pass them on rather than throwing out but are trying to avoid plastic to start with. Regardless, I think these type of efforts from Sweden should be commended. Expanded if possible but yes it’s great.
I have noticed in recent years that Sweden have started to switch out certain materials which is harder to sort/recycle with more common materials. A good example that i think of at the top of my head is the new straws you get from fast food chains, like McDonalds, Burger King and Max (a swedish burger chain). As they used plastic straws before, now its made out of paper (not the flimsy kind).
It is not only in the ocean it is in the air in your home in form of microplastic. You know when the sun shines in to your room, and you somestimes see particles that we all thought was dust, it is also micro plastic. It is plastic in the food, and every time you use plastic in your home. Lets say you have a plastic cutting board, it will release micro plastic each time you use it.Even things you eat contain micro plastic. It is a scary thing to look in too.
Try and find out about the Bristol UK sewage treatment plant. They recycle a lot of Bristols sewage. The sewer gas is used to fire boilers that dry the sewage solids to be used as fertilizer. The recycled water is clean and sold off to local industry for use.
Greetings from France ( Bordeaux ) we have very good recycling where everything is separated and we have recycling in the street you place your card on the shoot to open the bin so its secure and so rubbish will no blow around. its for glass . cardboard paper wood, etc metal in your local area and food waste. its a community collection point and its free to drop off anything,. There are many local Dechetterie almost in every town its a recycling station. 😀They will even collect your old oven and fridge for free from your house to recycle. Nothing is wasted. I love your channel ladies all so entertaining and informative, Merci Jean-Marc 😀
When you buy a drink aluminium can or a plastic bottle its include a minor extra price. In every grossery store we have a machine where you give the can or bottle back and you can use for shopping in the store.
I live in the UK, and when the question of waste incinerators comes up, there's usually a lot of opposition. We do a lot of recycling in the uk both with our bin collections, and there are a lot of local recycling centres like the one I'm my town where your can take any metal, wood, household appliances, garden waste etc that you want to get rid of
Everyone has to do it here in Sweden. Even in the countryside (where we live). There will be penalties if we do it wrong, at least if you do it REALLY wrong. The compost is not only used to be fertilicer, it’s also making nature gas during the process. This gas is then gathered and provided as fuel for example local community transportation as buses in the cities.
The bags for sorting are provided, so that household waste, can be automatically sorted by photorecognition, and composted, turned into gas, etc. (Not gas as in gasoline, but burnable hydrocarbons in a gasseous state). And even Sweden could inprove the material recycling. And if other countries want to point out the lacks of Sweden to make recycling more popular in their own countries, thats one we can take for the team.
from the uk and never knew this about are rubbish but happy its not going to waste . I lived in sweden for a while so knew they were clean and good and recycling but i didn’t know they were this good . very impressed . we should all follow suit and then we wouldnt need to import it as much
The recykling stations are often just close to your home. Mine is just a few min away. The food waste we have is turned in to fuel for our busses and other transportations.
The trouble with recycling schemes as we found out in UK is the rubbish often has to be burnt to release it’s energy and the resulting smoke causes pollution and carbon release. Also, as not all rubbish is suitable for burning it has to be sorted again adding to costs so reducing potential saving which also applies to any smoke filtering process.
Hi Natasha & Debbie , this was such a dynamic revelation about recycling, i was consumed by it.. In other countries there is supposed ' recycling ' , but honest i think we know a lot of collected recycling is ending up in land fill ....the rest of the world has to emulate this model of Sweden , We gotta keep driving to achieving what wev'e seen in this Video . Thankyou :) regards John (NZ)
A handy thing is a wormery. Small enough for a back yard. Put most food scraps in and the worms break it down and there is a liquid that can be gathered for fertilising plants.
They are big believers in district heating, at least in the larger cities. I have a friend who lives in a flat where the district heating is included automatically in their rent. It's also used to keep pathways clear of ice and snow in the winter.
I live in Sweden and I separate out food waste newspaper paper packaging cardcoard plastic packaging Clear/coloured glass Metal packaging Electonics Batteries Light bulbs They all go into different bins in the recycling station. The rest I just throw into the "burn bin" but that is seriiosly not that much.
We compost in Sweden to. We eather have our own, that have to be approved, or we have a special bin for it so they collect the same time as the rest of the garbage. The thing that we have to import garbage is bcs we have so hard rules about recycling (we get a fine if we so much as put a bananapeel in the "nonrecycletrash" bin), so we don´t have enough "trash" to create heat. I may be wrong, but I think it´s a good thing that we can help other countrys with their garbage, wich gain us with heat and gain those coutrys when they have to much to handle. Edit: One new law since that video is for excample that the restaurants aren´t allowed to use plastic boxes for takeoff food anymore. It has to be something that you can recycle.
I live in a apartment house with a recycling center in the building, so most can be done there. some things must go to a recycling station like TVs/Electric stuff, furniture and other big things. Our food waste is turned into Bio Gas and our local buses is driven by that Bio Gas in place of regular gasoline.
Little Sweden is at the forefront in many areas. Then the woman from Italy is not telling the whole truth and is not at all far ahead when it comes to garbage disposal, where the mafia controls the garbage disposal. It has been seen in several places in Italy where the garbage is not picked up at all because of the mafia. Then Italy doesn't have recycling like Sweden does. The USA is the country that is far behind and does not have what Sweden has at all, not even in California.
The Mafia? Better to hide dead bodies in trash if in charge of trash. Dang. Someone needs to teach how to recycle mattresses. And couches. People dump on the side of the road cuz they cannot afford the dumps fee. Adults need to take out the trash and stop sending their kids. The kids can't reach the tall bins and toss garbage in the recycling
Were i live (in Sweden) every household has 2 garbage cans. The first is separated in 4. Compost, plastic, cardboard, and colored glass. Can nr2 is oncolored glass, metal, newspapers, rest garbage. The garbage truck is separating when they tip the cans. They also take lightbulbs and batteries. Its superb!!
The way we are successfully handling our waste is something I'm really proud of when comparing Sweden to other countries. Very much of the paper, metal and glass is recycled. Some of the plastic too. Food waste is used to make gas that fuel vehicles and the rest is burned to create heat and electricity used for distrubition. However, when it's said it's all for free... not really. All homes pay a fee for waste, however it's kept pretty low and I think the industry is taking some of the costs as they have benefits from the sorted waste. For those who rent an apartment that fee is normally in the rent. We also have a deposit system for some types of aluminium cans, glass and plastic bottles, normally all we have for soda, beer e.t.c. You get 1-4 SEK back for each bottle/can (it's usually 8-10 SEK at 1 USD). The small/local unmanned recycling station is mostly in a few kilometers or even a few hundred meters and the larger manned stations are covering 10-20 km.
I lived in Rotterdam for many years and my heating was provided by burning household waste. Sometimes we were told to put recycled paper and cardboard into household waste because the normal waste was not burning properly.
Swede here. There's a recycling station right outside my apartment building and like 50 meters away there's a place where every monday you can leave things like broken electronics, fabrics or other things that theres no bins for in the recycling station. We also have a compost out back for organic material that isn't food waste, like plants.
Your laugh is insainly contagious. And its good to see ones own country through your eyes. You it seems like when it is your sight you don’t see it cause it ”just normal”
The same in Finland, and it has been like that for a very long time! They are also looking into a lot of innovative technologies, including capturing emissions from burning waste to turn back into plastic.
We have 2 boxes for glass and the other for plastic and tins and a bag for cardboard and one for paper plus they take old clothes. Plus a caddy for household food waste. All supplied by our council and renewed if damaged in anyway. We just make sure everything is clean before recycling.
We do exactly the same in Norway. We also sell rubbish to Sweden - but we buy rubbish from Scotland. Everything is returned - shops that sell electrical products have to take back old ones - then they go to recycling and remelting.
Well done Sweden, nice to know you use 10% of our waste from the UK too. I really wish more countries would do this & more people in general. I hate the apathy that some folk have regarding recycling or that they have an attitude of "why should I bother, it's not affecting me in my lifetime"....I'd say global temperatures & changes in our weather says otherwise. Thanks for sharing ladies 🌸
Considering most trucks transporting waste in Sweden run on green electricity, I say thats pretty awesome. Other countries transport it to us with their own non-green trucks..
Composting is very common in Sweden. This is true on many levels, private housing, apartment blocks and citie level. We use the heat, gas and the dirt from the composts.
Different parts of the U.K. have different schemes, but all have some form of recycling. At doorstep level, this varies between sorting things into three or four categories up to around seven categories.Containers for these and / or bags are provided by the local government. Plenty of second-hand shops take electronics and stuff, and there are special schemes for things like laptops, which often restore them and then distribute them in developing countries. Just about any other item (including tyres batteries, scrap metal etc) can be taken to a local re-cycling centre. These are often a car-ride away, but take just about anything. Much of what they recieve is re-cycled up-cycled and re-used.
Soda cans and plastic bottles we pay a little bit extra for. But when they are empty we save them bring them back to the store put them in a machine and we get hour money back for the plasic bottles and soda cans.
I live in Sweden, and I can't remember the last time I saw a landfill. Earlier today, I took cardboard, glass and metal to the recycling station on my way to the mall, where I returned 98 cans and bottles, getting the deposit back which in turn paid for some of the groceries.
My city collects 5 different “streams” of waste - glass, paper/plastic/metal, “other plastics,” food waste, & everything else - provides 4 small containers for me to collect in my apartment and 4 larger containers to empty these into a 30-second walk from my home. I only have to take glass to a collection point 5-minutes away.
I surgested to our local groceristore to recycle food in store (Willy, Karlskrona) and since a few years back they do. This recycle is made by them breaking up packed fruit /veggies to remove squashed fruit or bruised veggies and sell the remaning produce cheaper. Before the whole bag or box was trash if 1 apple was bad. So they save a lot. I introduced my idea after realising how mutch was composted fresh fruit. Even asked if I could buy broken carrot bags cheaper (they were not allowed to sell them as humanfood if duedates off) as petfood for bunnies, as its easy sort out bad ones to compost.
Haven't read all the comments, but here is some info (if its said before then it bares to be repeated). I used to do some rehab-work at a place that was a resource in Swedish e-recycling. There I learned that all retailers of electronics has to join a "Economic association" called E-ring, and a small piece of the price in every transaction is put aside for the cost of E-waste management. Like for the facility I was training at, got all our e-waste from a company that bought unsorted e-waste from multiple waste stations, and did some sorting and sent pc's/laptops/consoles and similar material to us. We all sat at our own desks with a bunch of tools, and picked up a thing (Desktop/laptop/digital camera was the hardest), took it to our desk. Started to dismantle it. Sorting different parts onto small bins at the desk, like metal into the metal bin, "low value"-bin(inside of dvd or PSU), "mid value"-bin (motherboards), "high value"-bin (CPU's, Memory modules, controller cards from hdd's), Aluminum (for coling blocks), Copper-spools (fan motors, wires), plastics (dark and bright sorted), stuff that could be burned in an incinerator. I mean by just doing that, our "easy labor" increase their profit when reselling the waste with, higher "gold" parts per million, or just clean metal. To the place that grind-ed each ton of waste down to cookie crumbs and then melted it down, for recycle. This was work done by me, since i got a psychiatric diagnose while treating "burning out" as an IT consultant, and a high functioning young man with Down syndrome, a guys with CP, a few fellows with longtime unemployment and trouble getting into the market due to language and their age. A few girls, but everyone was there to avoid getting stuck at home. All this was done as a part of our well fair system, to keep social. There was no deadlines, no quatas to meet. I was even asked to slow down.. but that's another story. The thing was you had social moments, like our Swedish fika (15 min twice a day), lunch(45 min) served at cost as long as you were social...
All municipals in Sweden ❤🇸🇪 has a form of free recycling bags. Most municipals also compost and use that locally when gardening our cities. That French ❤ Lady clearly didn't understand the length we Swedes go to recycle, which is cool
In my community or rather county, we use all organic waste to ferment and produce gas for transportation like our busses. That means zero net CO2 from exhausts and we have done so for many years.
Also, in the city where I live (in Sweden). The powerplant/recycling facility has started up a new project to turn it's CO2 emissions into fuel. Methanol mostly i believe.
I am a Swede working in the town hall of Eidsvoll, Norway, with these questions for years. The recycling in Norway is about the same as in Sweden but there are some very big differences. In Sweden most houses and flats are heated with central heating whereas in Norway they use direct electric heating panels. The central heating system in Sweden is using hot water that is circulated around the whole village or town. From small villages to large cities like Karlstad, Stockholm, Gothenburg... They have all large heating facilities that uses all the garbage that cannot be recycled into heat/electricity. We in Norway have no means to use this large amount of nonrecycling material so we sell it to Sweden. All other materials are recycled within Norway, such as compost. From all the foodwaste new nutricious earth is produced and used in gardens and agricultural purposes. Even the agricultural university in Norway, in Ås, uses it because it is so nutricious. All the work with waste as quite a lot regulated by the European Union. We in Norway also follows the rules and directives from the EU in order to create a circular habitat.Another comment is that there was a big problem with plastics because there are so many variants of plastics and it is hard to separate them. In this film there was a visit to Eskilstuna recycling plant and I believe it is there they recently introduced a fully automatic machine that can sort out most of the different plastics. www.retuna.se/&ved=2ahUKEwiq-In1tIuHAxWuR1UIHVNwBCEQFnoECEQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3opBq_6YFtJRUOLuDJIAur Another aspect on recycling is that most beverages that you buy in a store in Sweden and many other countries in Europe you have to pay a fee for each bottle/can. When you return the empty bottle/can to the store you get a refund. This way most bottles/cans are recycled through the stores own automatic recycling machine. ua-cam.com/video/a_LzL3RwESg/v-deo.html
I also think you’re right about giving things to people - we were given a kitchen compost (food scraps) bin and a larger one to put it outside in. However we have to pay for the bags to put in it and that pees me off as they’re expensive
Love the relevancy used. A change from 95% to 96% recycling is a 0,989% increase, which seems small compared to going from 5% to 15%, which is an increase of 200%. Impressive number. 😂
The nitpicky person is just jealous because she lacks the resources to do the same thing, the alternative would be landfills, right? The key is to treat it like a commodity, that gives the incitement to re-use as much as possible. Composting have been tried, the tech actually comes from the US, and was tested in Sweden in the early 90's. The problem is that you will have a lot of poisonous heavy metals in the compost in the end so it won't work because of that. Unless you have no issues with metals like mercury etc from compost ending up in your food. Composting projects are sadly not viable because of this. Landfills in Sweden are only materials like concrete or ceramics that (yet) have no use for recycling. You could build road banks from it of course and maybe sometimes it's done as well. Asphalt from the streets are recycled, before new asphalt are spread out, the old surface are milled away and "worked over" to give it a second life. All biological waste are used to produce gas for running public transport like buses. That's how far you may take the 'compost' idea, and Sweden are doing it all over the country. Some of it, like industrial waste from paper mills etc can be turned into CO2-neutral diesel fuel, known as HVO. Already happening. The trucks seen in the background entering the heating plant carries a load of household trash worth about 2000$ for each 20-foot container. Good money. Because no other country are doing this, Sweden can get paid to take their trash and then turn it to value by the ability to process it. If all countries did this, ther would be a scarcity of trash in the world, it would be too expensive to just throw it in the ocean. With scarcity you would be paid for your household waste instead of just give it away for nothing (you actually pay for getting it collected from your bin). We recycle empty cans, like Coke cans or beer cans. We get like 10 cents for each can we bring back to the store, who have a machine to put them in and give you a receipt which you can use to pay for stuff in the store. Next level would be that all your trash is returned in the same manner. Swedish local governments are digging gold as they take a fee to collect your trash, then use it to produce heat and electricity which you pay for again. If more countries did this, you would end up getting paid for your trash instead. Imagine if India did this.
Wow that is impressive. I didn’t realise how much more recycling Sweden is doing than the rest of the world . The uk needs to step up and do more . Think of all the extra energy/ resources that are being used to get our rubbish to another country for them to recycle it ? If you can’t recycle some of the waste then burning it for energy seems reasonable . We all need to think about what we buy and can we reuse it 🌎
We have had recycling since 2003 and get free bags for food we have bottle banks and even recycling banks for clothes and shoes, we have shops where you can take batteries you never put them in any bins because they can explode 😊
Btw it's not only Stockholm but all over Sweden with stations for sorting your trash. We also recycle soda bottles both cans, bottles and plastic bottles and get money for it (receipts that you give to the cashier when you get grocery's)
I live in Stockholm and we divide our household waste in 8 categories. Only 1 is incinerated and the rest is reworked into new products. Also all children are tought i school that shopping secondhand is cool and environmentally stund.
Im really passionate about this, in shropshire we have 3 big wheely bins per house, black is general house hold waste green is garden plus kitchen scraps, purple is glass and metal, and we have a blue bag for paper and cardboard. These are collected every 2 weeks.
I have 4 wheelie bins at my home here in Northern Ireland, biomass, recycling , glass and landfill bin. The landfill bin goes to a large landfill site which produces methane that powers 80,000 homes, the same energy plant also burns sewage sludge.
We have the same sorting in England - we have food waste bins with compostable bags, recycling bins, rubbish bins and garden waste. We also have the massive recycling bins like they showed there. I think the issue is that not everyone is so great at sorting stuff. In the village next to my dad’s they have incinerators burning the rubbish to power the area. We are behind Sweden but we should be pushing to get to that level. Also the fact that they have to take rubbish from other countries (including ours) because they don’t have enough to power the turbines on their own waste.
Hello Natasha and Debbie. Sexy Swede here. First of.. love your show ❤ I don't know what State you live in but wouldn't it be great if your politicians got wind of this? It could be a money machine to let your neigbouring states pay your state to take care of all their waste, and in the process get clean(-ish) energy, reduce waste and offer its citizens cheap heating? I fail to see how anyone would lose in this game. The planet would thank you. PS: Yes it has been 6 years since that video and things have changed a bit. To even better. New laws are in place that will make it mandatory to recycle your compostables. Before it was only common sense and moral (so most people does it). There's a lot of things happening here in Sweden and I like it.
In my apartment block where I live we have a big recycling room for paper, cardboard, plastic, metal, coloured and non-coloured glass. Then there’s another room for larger stuff and toxic waste. You don’t have to go anywhere, so there’s no hassle at all. All cans and plastic bottles you pay a small fee for when you buy at the grocery store and then get it back when you recycle them next time you buy food. It’s been like that for years and years.
We have no idea how we hadn't heard of this before!? Sweden is truly leading the way in the World with recycling & waste management! This is an eye-opening video that although brief, shows what Sweden is doing to get to 100% Recycling and having virtually NO WASTE! While some may disagree with some of the methods, we found this to be super impressive! Sweden also takes in ten percent of the United Kingdom's waste too! This shocked us! Well done Sweden! We can all learn from you! Do you do your part for our planet? Let us know in the comments. Happy Valentine's Day Everyone! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
I live in a house and we recently got a third recycle bin apart from food waste and ordinary waste. The third bin contains pretty much small buckets where you put colored or clear glass, metals, plastic and cardboard. So all of these are picked up at your property.
The irony of it is that its super profitable. Different companies ave to bid to do the garbage disposal (well depends on from municipality to municipality). Then the garbage fee is regulated to the biding price, typically pushing it down.
They missed the gas part. They produce gas, electricity and heat. Heat makes the most power (mainly because they make mostly heat).
I would argue that Finland is probobly one step a head of Sweden where they have plasma reduction where they not only can burn the garbage, they get a higher amount of electricity and gas out of it (that have higher value) and in steed of ash they get the raw material back out of the process. Like Iron, Bauxite, copper-oxide and other material that can be worked into no products. (last time i checked there was only one of those burners, but that was a few years back)
Did you ladies hear that King Charles has cancer
I live in Malmö (360 000 inhabitants, in southernmost Sweden). The video was true and honest when recorded.
We once had a modern nuclear power plant 20 miles away. The environmental movement happened so it was dismantled.
To replace that plant we got (at that time) the worlds most modern and clean power plant (Öresundsverket). It was ment to use Natural gas but could use almost anything as fuel (gas, oil, garbage, wood, cow dung...).
This was however not good enough for the environmentalists (Greta Thunberg happened) so it was dismantled and sold in parts, to the highest bidder.
To replace the power and heat generated, we got loads of windmills and a 822 mile long power line, giving us energy from the hydro power generated in the northern part of Sweden.
We now have enormous server halls belonging to Facebook, UA-cam.. (they pay less than 10% of the production cost). They are obviously situated in the north because that's where the energy is. We have lately gotten several industries that use more energy than the entire country of Finland generate.
We produce 0,4% of the global CO2 exhaust but that is somehow to much. To stop that (we need more CO2 in the atmosphere) we build windmills.
Without the Swedish new clear power and hydro, Denmark could build 14525222287272828272 trillion new windmills without benefiting.
Large Producers stabilise the net but windmills destabilize it. A generator must weigh hundreds of tons to be beneficial over time (over time=0,5 seconds).
The thing to look at is the Herz generated and how to get every producer to work at the same frequency.
Basic science say that the environmental movement have a goal that is impossible to reach EVER!
i live in sweden so yes i have heard it before.
if you want a short youtube clip that have information about then this check out Innovative Techs clip called "HOW SWEDEN TURNS ITS WASTE INTO GOLD" it is 8 min long and is from 1 year ago but
if you want a longer youtube clip that have information about this then check out Journeyman Pictures clip called "The Hidden Truth Behind Sweden's Waste Disposal Infrastructure" it is around 26 min long but it is from about 5 years ago.
hope this help
She says Sweden has started its recycling journey in the 70-tis and is now recycling close to 100%. But she complains about some parts like the material that could not be separated and used for other things that are burned. This is material that would end up in landfills in Sweden and countries that are exporting the waste to Sweden.
At the same time, she also says France has started to sort its trash in some areas and hopefully get a higher percentage of recycling. Landfills are still growing in France. So for me, it seems it would be better if it was turned into heat and electricity than just building big pile of trash in the nature.
She also talks about composting for example and Sweden is already taking care of food waste and turning it into gas for buses and cars and earth for growing.
But of course, everything can be better and it's not like Sweden has stopped developing when it comes to recycling and is doing more and more every year. Both when it comes to how products are produced and what types of materials, to how it is recycled.
Also rember that importing other country's trash reduces that country's land fill material, until they can copy the the methods. We help each other now, and figure out new things as we go along
She's to the left politically. They have a habit of attacking the solution rather than the problem, which is why their own solutions generally aren't very effective.
Sweden is a cold country in the winter and need lots of energy for heating so something got to burn….
Hear hear!
Hear hear!
The organic waste in Sweden is not only composed, when composting, the organic generate Biogas that is fueling our public transportation like busses.
And Cars my private car can run on Biogas
Also wastewater ir turned into Biogas.
Biogas is the same gas as Natural gas and 90% cleaner than Petrol and without all the cancer produsing waste only recykled CO2 and steam.
as a swede im really happy we do this, it also brings the meaning of "one mans trash is another mans treasure" to a new light :D
What is the recycling like in the muslim ghettos that have sprung up ?
@@ianmarywilliamsDon't believe everything you hear about "muslim ghettos". Some people spread lies to further their own agenda. And all of Sweden recycle waste the same way. It's not optional, it's the law.
@@ianmarywilliams i would have no idea as im not living anywhere near either stockholm,gothenburg or malmö. they are the only places i could assume there are any.
@@ItsMeYush Can only speak for north Stockholm , there are several ghettos , but they only have 40% muslims rounding up , so its dishonest to call it muslim ghettos , for exampel Rinkeby has always been a ghetto where the poorest have lived and as a consequense have had high crime rates , long before muslims showed up. Also might add that the recycling is worse , but nothing that cant be fixed with education.
No one and I mean no one's national anthem can beat flower of Scotland at Murray field
I live on Sweden's largest island, Gotland. Here we make gas from food scraps on the whole island. And we operate the island's regular buses and government cars.
Most of sweden do that…
@@evabeva79 Have not claimed anything else!
Sweden also invented a machine that can sort colored glass from transparent, since the re-melting process requires it to be seperated, they put all glass into one big machine, out comes colored and transparent in each container, they use optic lasers that scan the glass, it's so cool and so clever.
Colored and clear glass are separated at the recycling stations (different containers), so I imagine that machine just picks up stray bottles and the like.
@@bjornh4664 Yes, we are used for the work.
There are currently 53 power stations in the U.K running on waste. The county I live in recycles 70% of waste, amazing how this has improved of the past 20 years.
I work in one and once the waste has been used for the power station it is then recycled, metals separated and sold then the aggregate left over is used as construction materials. ua-cam.com/video/c3iJuBNtoQA/v-deo.html
I know big places like Meadowhall shopping mall in Sheffield use all their waste packaging to produce heating & lighting & have done for years, I don't know if the Metro Centre in Newcastle et al do the same, but I would imagine they do...so we're not too doing too bad in the UK are we if we're at 70%? It would be nice to reach 100%, though. I know some people can't be bothered to recycle, but it benefits us all in the long run.
If you wouldn't have waste building up in your house, why would you want it building up on the planet?
I live in a house in Sweden. We have 3 large bins with compartments for these:
- Biowaste
- Metal
- Plastic
- Clear glass
- Tinted/colored glass
- Cardboard
- Paper
- Misc/burnable waste
We also have a bin for garden waste like grass cuttings, sticks and so on.
At the supermarket there’s a station to return your pop/beer cans (you get about 10-20cent per can in return).
We also have centers where you can deposit lager things, utilities, chemicals and misc..all garbage must be sorted
Same here in uk...you get fined if stuff is out in Sep g bins..there are also large bins, usually in car parks, for textiles and clothes. 😊👍🇬🇧
@@lynnhamps7052 I am in the UK as well and all we get in my area is black bin and blue bin all other bins you have to pay for the garden waste bin you pay for and have to pay a yearly amount for as well, If the bins break you then have to pay again for a replacement
@@lynnhamps7052 You are better than us in the Midlands then, because we only have bins for rubbish, paper and recycling. We do not yet recycle into 8 separate and different compartments here.
And from januari 1 this year we must by law seperate food waste from burn bag as well
We have something called "Pant" in Sweden( also common in the other nordic countries but also in some other).
When you buy a soda bottle or can you pay an extra fee of 1-2kr and when you recycle the can/bottle you get that fee back.
That way people are more keen to actually recycle the can/bottles and if you throw them away some one else will pick it up and recycle it and earn that money back.
All stores that sell "Pant" are obligated to also recycle and repay Pant to the customers.
We have also started to bring the recycle stations to our own homes. I have two waste bins for my house, the bins are divided into 4 compartments each and I can sort cardboard, paper, plastic, clear glass, colored glass, metal and food waste in those. We also have a addition where we can sort batteries and bulbs.
Things that you can't recycle at home you will have to take to a recycle center station, there are a few in my small city, you just drive your car into the station and sort the things you want to throw away and then drive home again. No registration, no fee, no nothing.
Too add to that I don't think I've been at any home that doesn't have some sort of collection for cans or bottles of drinks as we overwhelmingly most of the time never throw or cans or bottles in the trash. Instead later take the collection and return it to one of the recycle station (which is most convenience stores as well) and get the money back that we paid extra when we bought the can/bottle. That's how most Swedes handle it.
I wonder why this lady seemed to love Italy but not Sweden as much. We should all be looking to Sweden for inspiration as they are leading the way.
Some years ago I was taken on a tour of a massive waste disposal site near Malmo in the southwest of Sweden. We were able to look down into the furnace where they disposed of the non-recyclable stuff and were given a presentation on how the smoke from the fire was cleaned of pollutants before letting out into the atmosphere. Then we were taken for a drive around the area suitable waste was left to compost naturally for several months. This plant processed all the waste for the waste for the whole province of Scania in Sweden.
The french woman says Sweden could do better then says France is not very good at it............ Can't you just taste those sour grapes 🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇
Oh we definitely did
Thing is Sweden (yes I am a Swed) can do better and France is not very good at it. I believe she talks about improving all over Europe. It's her job to nit-pick so to speak.
Oh, did you also hear the mocking tone when she said Sweden had taken quite a while to figure things out, but countries like Italy make the changes in two or three years? Because the reason can't be that Sweden was first out, making all the mistakes in order to find reliable solutions that others can just implement now, without actually having to experiment themselves?
It might come as a suprise to you, but she's not France. As an individual she can complain about both Sweden AND France, regardless of her nationality.
@@bonnarlunda
Well said.
06:39 - The red 'mailbox' on the side is for different kinds of batteries.
We recycle almost everything. Food scraps become gas for cars. Synthetic diesel comes from forest raw materials. Agriculture is the cleanest in the world in terms of cleanliness in production and the food is free from antibiotics and other chemicals. Everyone is educating themselves to protect the environment. Work is constantly progressing in all areas for a better environment for humans and animals.
The closest recycle station is less than 100 meters from my apartment and the food waste recycling station is on our yard. It's actually very difficult to find any garbage at home that I can't drop in the closest recycle station. There is even a recycle station for old batteries. The only things I can't throw away is electronics. For those I have to get to a larger recycling station a couple of kilometers away. Actually, in our apartment building we provide a large garbage container with a separate part for electronics, twice a year, where all members in our apartment building can drop garbage to large to fit in the normal garbage station, like old sofas, chairs, etc.
It's actually the law from this year that all apartment buildings in Sweden has to provide their own food recycling stations (for the compost). Of course the city will still empty these stations. For our building we have provided that since 2019.
I Norge er de som selger elektriske artikler pålagt å ta imot brukte elektrike artikler for gjenvinning og likedan batterier.
Många av Elgigantens butiker har nu återvinnings boxar för electronik i entren. Påminner om pantstationerna du sorterar olika el saker separat även glödlampor. 🎉
apart from the nitpicking person i found this very interesting way to go sweden!!! bravo!!
Hello girls! Im working in an inland port in SWEDEN, Västerås and we have a really big plant that produce power and heat/warming to a very big area. The import of waste from the UK islands are dryed , pressed and packed in square plastic bales, like the ones you see in the fields. And of course we have all the waste from our local area as well. We discharge the bales in pair with a smooth grab so no waste in bulk. I think the plant swollows 60-70 tons/hour.
The grocery stores have paper bags you put your fruits and vegetables in, those bags can also be used for the organic waste
Yep, same in America
Those bags are super thin, they always break before I get home so I don't know about that. :D
@@orten896 the paper bags? I find those to be very sturdy.
And icecream instead of the plastic ones that cost money. Icecream bags used to be waxed paper up untill the 80's.
Yes, we in Finland do almost the same as in Sweden. For biowaste we, here in Oulu, have experimental biogasfuel plant for car and buss fuel. And yes, you girls are correct about political nitpicking. Not to mension the illegal child labor, "Cheap China Made" -subcontracting, corruption, political lobbying and the "One use, disposable consumption" -culture that the major electronic and apparel manufacturers lean on, to boost their sales for consumer products.
Fun fact: 1/3 of all the worlds water pollution comes from textile and apparel manufacturing and one adult T-shirt requires 2700 litres / 713,2645006668 gallons of water to be manufactured.
Yeah... and the people doing the dying of the textiler die in an early age due to the to i coloring, cancer is a common illness...and malformed children is born.
The netherlands do also recycle and burn waste for energy
Our city (of 90k people) here in Sweden makes gas out food waste and other organic material and our public transport network runs on the gas collected from that waste. the city itself discounting the most rural areas is almost 100% warmed up with a central heating system that mainly uses waste from the wood processing industry.
Our apartment complex has its own recycling stations, but there is more about 200meters away from us and for bulky things like old furniture there is 2 shops that can collect your furniture as well as a large recycling centre that that processes a lot more things than what most other sites will accept. Like electronics and more dangerous substances.
That's so impressive 👏🏻
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow as for the incineration issue. those plants are built in such a way that somewhere around 95% of the smoke you saw is basically water vapor rather than CO2 and even less of anything harmful escaping from that.
It is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination and the re-use, rather than just recycling, of things could be actually higher than it currently is. But i think that is a bit of a generational issue, where some of the older people struggles more to adapt to the system.
In Stockholm a lot of our buses drive on biogas from our waste water plant in Käppala - from poo to power!
Was gonna say almost the exact same thing.....except I was gonna say "my city of almost 100k" =p (Växjö/Wexio)
@@Strict666 I keep forgetting it has been growing a lot and yes we live in the same place then :)
Great video I didn't know 10% of our recycling when over to Sweden so bravo sweden
What is shown from Stockholm is found in all of Sweden, and all municipalities have second hand shops. There, people can leave clothes, furniture, books, kitchen equipment, crockery, yes, everything that can still be used, you test the things and then sell them again for a cheap price
As someone who lives in the same city, the Re:tuna mall is the first stop when you're looking for stuff. The point of it is not that it's all second hand though, it's that it's built in conjunction with one of the main recycling stations, so first you roll over the ramp and dump stuff that doesn't work, and then you go to the next ramp with the stuff that might work and that goes to the mall. The staff at some of those shops also do some advanced dumpster diving. I also agree that incineration is not recycling, but the point is that by now, less than 1% goes to landfills. That nitpicker works for a private organization that relies heavily on donations. Singing the company song is just expected, i guess..:)
To be fair, burning waste food to generate heat IS recycling if you ask me. Its not like we are burning cars or computers you know.
In Norway we do this too, but Sweden might do it more. We get free paper bags for food waste, we get free plastic bags for plastic etc. Outside we have a blue bin for paper, a green bin for general waste, a brown bin for organic waste. Each bin has a microchip registered to your address. We also recycle all plastic bottles because we pay a bottle fee when we buy drinks, and that money is returned when you return the bottle to the store. I believe Sweden also has the bottle fee thing. It's great because the fee is small enough for you not to notice it when you buy, you just assume it's part of the price, and when you return a lot of plastic bottles it feels like they give you money! :D
Thank you for this from a proud Swede in Madrid, Spain!!!!
Don't know if this exists in other countries than Sweden but I have a phone app where I scan the bar code on all the food packaging we recycle. The app keeps track of it and you get a small amount of money back for most of them in the form of coupons in different stores or money to your bank account if you wish. No large amount of cash of course but it's better than not getting anything! 😀
The same thing is done here in Sheffield in Northern England. It's quite common to see those bins in European cities on most street corners. Barcelona has those. France has since banned internal flights because their train system is so good. Thanks for uploading, ladies.
I live in Stockholm, we get bins from the state for separating plastics, organic waste, paper, metal, glass, electronics etc son that when we throw our garbage they are already separated when the trucks comes and pick it up. For larger waste there are recycling plants close by where I can drive and throw in sperate containers for each type of waste. Have been doing this since the early 90's and most Swedes do this, in fact I can't think of a single person I know who don't recycle.
Edit: recycling hasn't improved in Sweden because we've been at almost 100%, hard to do more than that. In fact we do as we recycle waste from other countries aswell.
Sweden is very impressive indeed. In Wales 67% of all waste is recycled and this year it becomes law that all businesses must sort and recycle their waste. At the moment we have 3 local authority bins for recycling, organic, recycling and material that cannot currently be recycled and we are issued with outdoor bins and a kitchen bin and bags for food waste. Caerphilly local authority has taken the matter and its environmental impact very seriously. Even bulkier items are recycled into separate areas when you take them to the community skips. There fridges, freezers, car batteries, TV, computers, wood, furniture etc are all recycled. Maybe America could look at this???
In Sweden different regions have different recycling systems and different formats. Where I live I have 2 large bins with 4 compartments each for burnables, carton, newspaper, plastic, compostables, metal, clear glass and colored glass, as well as 2 attachable small boxes for batteries, smaller electrical components, and light sources. In the small village there is also a recycling station for more categories of waste in larger containers. The station is free to use for local, but the bins you have to have on your property is expensive to have and you can't opt out. I think it's around 50$ a month or so, but I could be wrong.
It's true most landfills are gone but the work of santizing them is ongoing. People are more aware of putting their waste in the correct compartments, but there are also people who don't care, of course.
I'm living on the south east coast of Sweden (Oskarshamn) and I have worked with garbagetrucks like 10 years ago and then visited many recyclingplants and landfills all over Sweden and on every site they where now producing natural gas from the old landfills and no more waste was dumped there anymore.
The way we sort the garbage differ around the country.
Where I live we have one garbagebin but two different plastic bags, one is red and it's used for householdwaste that is not recyclable and one bag is green and are used for compost like food and other organic stuff.
Then you tie them up with a doubleknot and throw them in the same bin. On the wasteplant a machine then sort the bags by color and the red bag will be burnt and the green one being natural gas and then fertilizer.
On other places there are even more bags with other colors for sorting even more different stuff at home instead of going with the recycling waste to the recyclingstations by yourself.
However the bags are NOT for free, but is included in a monthly fee to the county for the garbagehandling.
This has been the case in many many years (decades) in Sweden but have been more and more developed over time.
Not seen it in the comments. In my small Swedish town they have routed the return pipes for the central heating shallow under some main streets and roundabouts to keep them snow and ice free in the winter. The lower return temps makes the (waste burning) power plant more efficient so its more or less free.
That is very cool.
I think we can all do more. Less plastic purchases for a start (I have a kid with 1000 (he exaggerates) plastic toys). We make sure we pass them on rather than throwing out but are trying to avoid plastic to start with.
Regardless, I think these type of efforts from Sweden should be commended. Expanded if possible but yes it’s great.
I have noticed in recent years that Sweden have started to switch out certain materials which is harder to sort/recycle with more common materials. A good example that i think of at the top of my head is the new straws you get from fast food chains, like McDonalds, Burger King and Max (a swedish burger chain). As they used plastic straws before, now its made out of paper (not the flimsy kind).
i watched a david attenborough documentary on the amount of plastic in our oceans and it made me cry its a hard watch
It's appalling
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow i agree 100%! some can pick a fight in an empty house
It is not only in the ocean it is in the air in your home in form of microplastic. You know when the sun shines in to your room, and you somestimes see particles that we all thought was dust, it is also micro plastic. It is plastic in the food, and every time you use plastic in your home. Lets say you have a plastic cutting board, it will release micro plastic each time you use it.Even things you eat contain micro plastic. It is a scary thing to look in too.
@@uniquename111 i wont deny any of that
@@uniquename111 i prefer timber based over plastic anyday like paper based
Try and find out about the Bristol UK sewage treatment plant. They recycle a lot of Bristols sewage. The sewer gas is used to fire boilers that dry the sewage solids to be used as fertilizer. The recycled water is clean and sold off to local industry for use.
Where I lived as a Child we sorted our trash exactly this way already in late -90th
Greetings from France ( Bordeaux ) we have very good recycling where everything is separated and we have recycling in the street you place your card on the shoot to open the bin so its secure and so rubbish will no blow around. its for glass . cardboard paper wood, etc metal in your local area and food waste. its a community collection point and its free to drop off anything,. There are many local Dechetterie almost in every town its a recycling station. 😀They will even collect your old oven and fridge for free from your house to recycle. Nothing is wasted. I love your channel ladies all so entertaining and informative, Merci Jean-Marc 😀
When you buy a drink aluminium can or a plastic bottle its include a minor extra price. In every grossery store we have a machine where you give the can or bottle back and you can use for shopping in the store.
I live in the UK, and when the question of waste incinerators comes up, there's usually a lot of opposition. We do a lot of recycling in the uk both with our bin collections, and there are a lot of local recycling centres like the one I'm my town where your can take any metal, wood, household appliances, garden waste etc that you want to get rid of
Everyone has to do it here in Sweden. Even in the countryside (where we live). There will be penalties if we do it wrong, at least if you do it REALLY wrong. The compost is not only used to be fertilicer, it’s also making nature gas during the process. This gas is then gathered and provided as fuel for example local community transportation as buses in the cities.
The bags for sorting are provided, so that household waste, can be automatically sorted by photorecognition, and composted, turned into gas, etc. (Not gas as in gasoline, but burnable hydrocarbons in a gasseous state). And even Sweden could inprove the material recycling. And if other countries want to point out the lacks of Sweden to make recycling more popular in their own countries, thats one we can take for the team.
from the uk and never knew this about are rubbish but happy its not going to waste . I lived in sweden for a while so knew they were clean and good and recycling but i didn’t know they were this good . very impressed . we should all follow suit and then we wouldnt need to import it as much
The recykling stations are often just close to your home. Mine is just a few min away. The food waste we have is turned in to fuel for our busses and other transportations.
The trouble with recycling schemes as we found out in UK is the rubbish often has to be burnt to release it’s energy and the resulting smoke causes pollution and carbon release. Also, as not all rubbish is suitable for burning it has to be sorted again adding to costs so reducing potential saving which also applies to any smoke filtering process.
Hi Natasha & Debbie , this was such a dynamic revelation about recycling, i was consumed by it.. In other countries there is supposed ' recycling ' , but honest i think we know a lot of collected recycling is ending up in land fill ....the rest of the world has to emulate this model of Sweden , We gotta keep driving to achieving what wev'e seen in this Video .
Thankyou :) regards John (NZ)
A handy thing is a wormery. Small enough for a back yard. Put most food scraps in and the worms break it down and there is a liquid that can be gathered for fertilising plants.
They are big believers in district heating, at least in the larger cities. I have a friend who lives in a flat where the district heating is included automatically in their rent. It's also used to keep pathways clear of ice and snow in the winter.
I live in Sweden and I separate out
food waste
newspaper
paper packaging
cardcoard
plastic packaging
Clear/coloured glass
Metal packaging
Electonics
Batteries
Light bulbs
They all go into different bins in the recycling station. The rest I just throw into the "burn bin" but that is seriiosly not that much.
Informative video,about how we can help our planets well done Sweden.
I live in Uppsala Sweden and in out apartement building we have a waste room where we sort our waste ..
We compost in Sweden to. We eather have our own, that have to be approved, or we have a special bin for it so they collect the same time as the rest of the garbage. The thing that we have to import garbage is bcs we have so hard rules about recycling (we get a fine if we so much as put a bananapeel in the "nonrecycletrash" bin), so we don´t have enough "trash" to create heat. I may be wrong, but I think it´s a good thing that we can help other countrys with their garbage, wich gain us with heat and gain those coutrys when they have to much to handle.
Edit: One new law since that video is for excample that the restaurants aren´t allowed to use plastic boxes for takeoff food anymore. It has to be something that you can recycle.
I live in a apartment house with a recycling center in the building, so most can be done there. some things must go to a recycling station like TVs/Electric stuff, furniture and other big things.
Our food waste is turned into Bio Gas and our local buses is driven by that Bio Gas in place of regular gasoline.
We take waste also from Norway
Little Sweden is at the forefront in many areas. Then the woman from Italy is not telling the whole truth and is not at all far ahead when it comes to garbage disposal, where the mafia controls the garbage disposal. It has been seen in several places in Italy where the garbage is not picked up at all because of the mafia. Then Italy doesn't have recycling like Sweden does.
The USA is the country that is far behind and does not have what Sweden has at all, not even in California.
The Mafia? Better to hide dead bodies in trash if in charge of trash. Dang. Someone needs to teach how to recycle mattresses. And couches. People dump on the side of the road cuz they cannot afford the dumps fee. Adults need to take out the trash and stop sending their kids. The kids can't reach the tall bins and toss garbage in the recycling
@@luvyatubers Here in Sweden it is free to return. Mattresses should NOT be reused, as these may contain vermin and you can never get rid of them.
Were i live (in Sweden) every household has 2 garbage cans. The first is separated in 4. Compost, plastic, cardboard, and colored glass. Can nr2 is oncolored glass, metal, newspapers, rest garbage. The garbage truck is separating when they tip the cans. They also take lightbulbs and batteries. Its superb!!
One thing, France and Italy don’t have our cold winters so we need the heet. 🤷🏻♀️🤗
The way we are successfully handling our waste is something I'm really proud of when comparing Sweden to other countries.
Very much of the paper, metal and glass is recycled. Some of the plastic too. Food waste is used to make gas that fuel vehicles and the rest is burned to create heat and electricity used for distrubition.
However, when it's said it's all for free... not really. All homes pay a fee for waste, however it's kept pretty low and I think the industry is taking some of the costs as they have benefits from the sorted waste. For those who rent an apartment that fee is normally in the rent. We also have a deposit system for some types of aluminium cans, glass and plastic bottles, normally all we have for soda, beer e.t.c. You get 1-4 SEK back for each bottle/can (it's usually 8-10 SEK at 1 USD).
The small/local unmanned recycling station is mostly in a few kilometers or even a few hundred meters and the larger manned stations are covering 10-20 km.
I lived in Rotterdam for many years and my heating was provided by burning household waste. Sometimes we were told to put recycled paper and cardboard into household waste because the normal waste was not burning properly.
Swede here. There's a recycling station right outside my apartment building and like 50 meters away there's a place where every monday you can leave things like broken electronics, fabrics or other things that theres no bins for in the recycling station. We also have a compost out back for organic material that isn't food waste, like plants.
Your laugh is insainly contagious. And its good to see ones own country through your eyes. You it seems like when it is your sight you don’t see it cause it ”just normal”
The same in Finland, and it has been like that for a very long time! They are also looking into a lot of innovative technologies, including capturing emissions from burning waste to turn back into plastic.
France 😅, we are doing great work 💯👍🏻🙂🇸🇪
We have 2 boxes for glass and the other for plastic and tins and a bag for cardboard and one for paper plus they take old clothes. Plus a caddy for household food waste. All supplied by our council and renewed if damaged in anyway. We just make sure everything is clean before recycling.
We do exactly the same in Norway. We also sell rubbish to Sweden - but we buy rubbish from Scotland. Everything is returned - shops that sell electrical products have to take back old ones - then they go to recycling and remelting.
Nitpicking.. I agree. Also...when it comes to foodwaste, this is turned into Biogas that is used information feeling our busses
@7:34 that is Högdalen, where we unload household waste everyday.
We do a lot of Composting in Sweden, almost every house in Sweden has a Compost... That French "expert" was really getting on my nervs.
Well done Sweden, nice to know you use 10% of our waste from the UK too.
I really wish more countries would do this & more people in general.
I hate the apathy that some folk have regarding recycling or that they have an attitude of "why should I bother, it's not affecting me in my lifetime"....I'd say global temperatures & changes in our weather says otherwise.
Thanks for sharing ladies 🌸
Considering most trucks transporting waste in Sweden run on green electricity, I say thats pretty awesome.
Other countries transport it to us with their own non-green trucks..
Composting is very common in Sweden. This is true on many levels, private housing, apartment blocks and citie level. We use the heat, gas and the dirt from the composts.
Different parts of the U.K. have different schemes, but all have some form of recycling. At doorstep level, this varies between sorting things into three or four categories up to around seven categories.Containers for these and / or bags are provided by the local government. Plenty of second-hand shops take electronics and stuff, and there are special schemes for things like laptops, which often restore them and then distribute them in developing countries. Just about any other item (including tyres batteries, scrap metal etc) can be taken to a local re-cycling centre. These are often a car-ride away, but take just about anything. Much of what they recieve is re-cycled up-cycled and re-used.
Soda cans and plastic bottles we pay a little bit extra for. But when they are empty we save them bring them back to the store put them in a machine and we get hour money back for the plasic bottles and soda cans.
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very good choice of video. can't wait to see what you guys think.👍🏻
In Sweden the steps are reuse, recycle, use for energy, and as a last resort put in landfills.
I live in Sweden, and I can't remember the last time I saw a landfill. Earlier today, I took cardboard, glass and metal to the recycling station on my way to the mall, where I returned 98 cans and bottles, getting the deposit back which in turn paid for some of the groceries.
I live in smaller city in sweden.
We have so much energy so we warm up the streets in the citycenter in the winter.
My city collects 5 different “streams” of waste - glass, paper/plastic/metal, “other plastics,” food waste, & everything else - provides 4 small containers for me to collect in my apartment and 4 larger containers to empty these into a 30-second walk from my home. I only have to take glass to a collection point 5-minutes away.
I surgested to our local groceristore to recycle food in store (Willy, Karlskrona) and since a few years back they do. This recycle is made by them breaking up packed fruit /veggies to remove squashed fruit or bruised veggies and sell the remaning produce cheaper. Before the whole bag or box was trash if 1 apple was bad. So they save a lot. I introduced my idea after realising how mutch was composted fresh fruit. Even asked if I could buy broken carrot bags cheaper (they were not allowed to sell them as humanfood if duedates off) as petfood for bunnies, as its easy sort out bad ones to compost.
Haven't read all the comments, but here is some info (if its said before then it bares to be repeated). I used to do some rehab-work at a place that was a resource in Swedish e-recycling. There I learned that all retailers of electronics has to join a "Economic association" called E-ring, and a small piece of the price in every transaction is put aside for the cost of E-waste management. Like for the facility I was training at, got all our e-waste from a company that bought unsorted e-waste from multiple waste stations, and did some sorting and sent pc's/laptops/consoles and similar material to us. We all sat at our own desks with a bunch of tools, and picked up a thing (Desktop/laptop/digital camera was the hardest), took it to our desk. Started to dismantle it. Sorting different parts onto small bins at the desk, like metal into the metal bin, "low value"-bin(inside of dvd or PSU), "mid value"-bin (motherboards), "high value"-bin (CPU's, Memory modules, controller cards from hdd's), Aluminum (for coling blocks), Copper-spools (fan motors, wires), plastics (dark and bright sorted), stuff that could be burned in an incinerator. I mean by just doing that, our "easy labor" increase their profit when reselling the waste with, higher "gold" parts per million, or just clean metal. To the place that grind-ed each ton of waste down to cookie crumbs and then melted it down, for recycle.
This was work done by me, since i got a psychiatric diagnose while treating "burning out" as an IT consultant, and a high functioning young man with Down syndrome, a guys with CP, a few fellows with longtime unemployment and trouble getting into the market due to language and their age. A few girls, but everyone was there to avoid getting stuck at home. All this was done as a part of our well fair system, to keep social. There was no deadlines, no quatas to meet. I was even asked to slow down.. but that's another story. The thing was you had social moments, like our Swedish fika (15 min twice a day), lunch(45 min) served at cost as long as you were social...
All municipals in Sweden ❤🇸🇪 has a form of free recycling bags. Most municipals also compost and use that locally when gardening our cities. That French ❤ Lady clearly didn't understand the length we Swedes go to recycle, which is cool
In my community or rather county, we use all organic waste to ferment and produce gas for transportation like our busses. That means zero net CO2 from exhausts and we have done so for many years.
we do the same in Denmark
Also, in the city where I live (in Sweden). The powerplant/recycling facility has started up a new project to turn it's CO2 emissions into fuel. Methanol mostly i believe.
I am a Swede working in the town hall of Eidsvoll, Norway, with these questions for years. The recycling in Norway is about the same as in Sweden but there are some very big differences. In Sweden most houses and flats are heated with central heating whereas in Norway they use direct electric heating panels. The central heating system in Sweden is using hot water that is circulated around the whole village or town. From small villages to large cities like Karlstad, Stockholm, Gothenburg... They have all large heating facilities that uses all the garbage that cannot be recycled into heat/electricity. We in Norway have no means to use this large amount of nonrecycling material so we sell it to Sweden. All other materials are recycled within Norway, such as compost. From all the foodwaste new nutricious earth is produced and used in gardens and agricultural purposes. Even the agricultural university in Norway, in Ås, uses it because it is so nutricious. All the work with waste as quite a lot regulated by the European Union. We in Norway also follows the rules and directives from the EU in order to create a circular habitat.Another comment is that there was a big problem with plastics because there are so many variants of plastics and it is hard to separate them. In this film there was a visit to Eskilstuna recycling plant and I believe it is there they recently introduced a fully automatic machine that can sort out most of the different plastics.
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Another aspect on recycling is that most beverages that you buy in a store in Sweden and many other countries in Europe you have to pay a fee for each bottle/can. When you return the empty bottle/can to the store you get a refund. This way most bottles/cans are recycled through the stores own automatic recycling machine.
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I also think you’re right about giving things to people - we were given a kitchen compost (food scraps) bin and a larger one to put it outside in. However we have to pay for the bags to put in it and that pees me off as they’re expensive
Love the relevancy used. A change from 95% to 96% recycling is a 0,989% increase, which seems small compared to going from 5% to 15%, which is an increase of 200%. Impressive number. 😂
The nitpicky person is just jealous because she lacks the resources to do the same thing, the alternative would be landfills, right? The key is to treat it like a commodity, that gives the incitement to re-use as much as possible. Composting have been tried, the tech actually comes from the US, and was tested in Sweden in the early 90's. The problem is that you will have a lot of poisonous heavy metals in the compost in the end so it won't work because of that. Unless you have no issues with metals like mercury etc from compost ending up in your food. Composting projects are sadly not viable because of this.
Landfills in Sweden are only materials like concrete or ceramics that (yet) have no use for recycling. You could build road banks from it of course and maybe sometimes it's done as well. Asphalt from the streets are recycled, before new asphalt are spread out, the old surface are milled away and "worked over" to give it a second life.
All biological waste are used to produce gas for running public transport like buses. That's how far you may take the 'compost' idea, and Sweden are doing it all over the country.
Some of it, like industrial waste from paper mills etc can be turned into CO2-neutral diesel fuel, known as HVO. Already happening.
The trucks seen in the background entering the heating plant carries a load of household trash worth about 2000$ for each 20-foot container. Good money.
Because no other country are doing this, Sweden can get paid to take their trash and then turn it to value by the ability to process it. If all countries did this, ther would be a scarcity of trash in the world, it would be too expensive to just throw it in the ocean. With scarcity you would be paid for your household waste instead of just give it away for nothing (you actually pay for getting it collected from your bin).
We recycle empty cans, like Coke cans or beer cans. We get like 10 cents for each can we bring back to the store, who have a machine to put them in and give you a receipt which you can use to pay for stuff in the store.
Next level would be that all your trash is returned in the same manner.
Swedish local governments are digging gold as they take a fee to collect your trash, then use it to produce heat and electricity which you pay for again.
If more countries did this, you would end up getting paid for your trash instead. Imagine if India did this.
We do this same in Finland + recycle all beverage bottles and cans for reuse (a small deposit is paid for them when they are returned to the machine)
Of course Swedes recycle all beverage and cans too
Wow that is impressive. I didn’t realise how much more recycling Sweden is doing than the rest of the world . The uk needs to step up and do more . Think of all the extra energy/ resources that are being used to get our rubbish to another country for them to recycle it ? If you can’t recycle some of the waste then burning it for energy seems reasonable . We all need to think about what we buy and can we reuse it 🌎
Well said!
The Government in the UK is in urgent need of recycling into landfill, as they regard freedom from Europe as freedom to pollute.
Sence first of januari 2024 we must seperate food waste from normal burn bags
We have had recycling since 2003 and get free bags for food we have bottle banks and even recycling banks for clothes and shoes, we have shops where you can take batteries you never put them in any bins because they can explode 😊
Btw it's not only Stockholm but all over Sweden with stations for sorting your trash. We also recycle soda bottles both cans, bottles and plastic bottles and get money for it (receipts that you give to the cashier when you get grocery's)
I live in Stockholm and we divide our household waste in 8 categories. Only 1 is incinerated and the rest is reworked into new products. Also all children are tought i school that shopping secondhand is cool and environmentally stund.
Im really passionate about this, in shropshire we have 3 big wheely bins per house, black is general house hold waste green is garden plus kitchen scraps, purple is glass and metal, and we have a blue bag for paper and cardboard. These are collected every 2 weeks.
I have 4 wheelie bins at my home here in Northern Ireland, biomass, recycling , glass and landfill bin. The landfill bin goes to a large landfill site which produces methane that powers 80,000 homes, the same energy plant also burns sewage sludge.
We do this in Norway too, free bags for bio compost waste. Sinse early 1990's
We have the same sorting in England - we have food waste bins with compostable bags, recycling bins, rubbish bins and garden waste. We also have the massive recycling bins like they showed there. I think the issue is that not everyone is so great at sorting stuff. In the village next to my dad’s they have incinerators burning the rubbish to power the area. We are behind Sweden but we should be pushing to get to that level. Also the fact that they have to take rubbish from other countries (including ours) because they don’t have enough to power the turbines on their own waste.
Hello Natasha and Debbie. Sexy Swede here. First of.. love your show ❤
I don't know what State you live in but wouldn't it be great if your politicians got wind of this? It could be a money machine to let your neigbouring states pay your state to take care of all their waste, and in the process get clean(-ish) energy, reduce waste and offer its citizens cheap heating? I fail to see how anyone would lose in this game. The planet would thank you.
PS: Yes it has been 6 years since that video and things have changed a bit. To even better. New laws are in place that will make it mandatory to recycle your compostables. Before it was only common sense and moral (so most people does it). There's a lot of things happening here in Sweden and I like it.
In my apartment block where I live we have a big recycling room for paper, cardboard, plastic, metal, coloured and non-coloured glass. Then there’s another room for larger stuff and toxic waste. You don’t have to go anywhere, so there’s no hassle at all. All cans and plastic bottles you pay a small fee for when you buy at the grocery store and then get it back when you recycle them next time you buy food. It’s been like that for years and years.