How Sweden is turning its waste into gold | Focus • FRANCE 24 English 

Sweden changed minds in one generation in the seventies. We can do it to through education.

agreed. it really shows how far people can go for the environment if they try. If we compare the wasteful ways of other countries like for example Canada where I live, or USA as another example, we would all be better off. I only started looking into the recycling issues after the ban from China, and I wish I had looked into it beforehand. Ill admit, while I knew there were a few differences in like which plastics can be recycled among other things and those that cannot, I didn't realize just how much of a difference it really was.

@@AHFAN11 Likewise, I only started researching what I can do after the China ban.. I'm from Australia, and we recycle our aluminium cans and glass products, but not our plastic, ALL of which we'd been sending to China since the early 90's - Disgusting laziness, really..

Here (california) special effort is made to collect organic waste which is then turned into grear compost. Problem is glass and plastic shards are mixed into it and nobody wants it at any price. Under Governor Brown we lost 80% of recycling centers in our area. Our local stores can't tell us where we can find a recycling station. Now there's an excuse that recycling centers are high crime areas because of addicts. People would rather loose the redemption money then have crime in their neighborhoods.

Here in Hungary littering is also a huge problem. Even though i smoke sometimes, i always throw the butt in the trash. But a lot of the smokers just throw it away wherever. Wheni told my friend i throw mine in the trash her reaction was ' how cute'. I'm not a daily or even weekly user though. And i'm in a life resetting phase right now so whenever i have something i don't need anymore i give it to friends and family. I tried looking up thrift stores, but non of them would take my 8 large trash bags of clothes and accesories cause it's too small to process. And im like than what am i supposed to do. Im no zero waste guru though. I just try and use plastics i have laying around until they can't be used anymore. Like my PET bottles and such or i cut them and reporpuse it as a bucket for cleaning liquids when i clean. So i can dip my sponge or brush. And i've yet to convience my mom that she should switch to reusable cleaning gloves.

Absolutely.

Yes

Could be well thought education system....

It's more than that . Τhey are conscious and have raised their awareness to protect the environment. Let's call it ethic

Lmao 👌😂

Great stuff!

Yes, we have to take responsibility each person ...

To some extend its right. But they should not emit CO2 directly into the atmosphere, they can fill the deep under the ground or make some valuable products out of CO2 like biodiesel.

Better you burn your garbage since Arab oil is not cheap.

Martin Östlund let me tell you except the sun your country is perfect and a model for every single country in this world to follow. Please do not mind the Russian bots lol

Östlunds my name 2

How much recapturing of gases/toxin technology is implemented? I am worried that instead of water and landfill, the poison goes in to air which they blow it off to the world.

Sweden has a never ending plan

Sweden is very progressive in some ways. They need to change their "immigration" policy though.

Well, it's almost 2021😅🤔

Too late, China just stopped accepting such garbage packages from your country.

Or just use hemp

Like now some eu doomed untill they can reduce or recycle more becouse china reduce ur dump into their country

I can buy milk in glass, metal, paper or plastic packaging, how does the choice make less waste?

And I think plastic bags, plastic plates/flatware, plastic bottles have to go. I like bulk stores, those work well. The thing is change will feel weird and you may feel put out as it is not as convenient. But how spoiled are we? Isn’t the planet worth saving for our children and our children’s children? You would be surprised how fast one can adapt. The satisfaction or pleasure you get for doing something meaningful as respects reducing waste will only make the program evolve and get better.

Thats absolutely fine as long as its a benefit to the world. Claim it all you want.

Too late. They already have and they are very proud of it too.

Daniel Reyes we're working on it. nothing else to do really during all these dark winter months... :P

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arijit patra have you read the Humanure Handbook? It’s a process that you might like if you’re really into permaculture.

@@jamespinto484 thanks I will look into it.

Sweden also has something called Pant. It is a very small sum, like 1 or 2 kronor, added to plastic bottles or aluminium cans that is returned to you when you recycle them at the store. There are special machines doing this.

What do you do with the compost procured afterwards? Do you give it to some sort of planting company or?

@@mayas.9977 Depends actually. Household compost is used to make bio fuel. If you have a garden of your own you could use it to fertilize the dirt.

I hope so too. Our PM needs to watch these kinds of videos and come up with something. More than a Billion people created trash. They can generate a lot of electricity.

We have to do it, nobody else is going to do it for us.

Roads made out of waste. There's your solution. ;-)

We have to change

You can start by organising street and beach clean ups in your area. Get a group of people together who take pride in their community.

true

lol...and then gave their country away... very far ahead..lol

No dude......Sweden is the first

In recycling only unfortunately.

@@georgehamilton6624 lmao no

User Unknown we can’t get our s@&$t together when it comes to garbage/recycling. Here in Miami we don’t even recycle stuff like cardboard like we used to 🤮

Unfortunately that's not going to happen when your government is tied to corporations with interests in fossil fuels etc..

User Unknown I help out with picking up trash for my town. With every town did that

There are a lot of things the US needs to start doing

@@anonymoushuman8546 People of future generations will find it hard to believe that today's people could be so stupid as to squander our resources for the imaginary concept of "money".

Ruling small mostly homogeneous European countries are easy

go go Danmark!

well i have seen an american on meth.. are they all ?? there will always be idiots. but i bet the clothes u saw was either stolen out of a recycling container or worn down , people dont recycle junk with holes and stains.. that goes in the trash after you have cut it in pieces for rags used in the garage or for polish cloth.. all i know does that.

Thats called a thrift store

Us Swedish are very focused on what we do. We also don't have political discord and riots and things like that which could hinder our country's progress

SketchUp Studio Canada is in the middle. We are not as bad as the US but Scandinavia is ahead of us. We have a prime minister who makes nice-sounding promises but doesn’t always follow through.

@@nousername5673 Yeah, Canada is a bit like the better version of America, but your Prime Minister is a bit strange though.

@@sketchupstudio8449 Hardly. More like the more expensive version of the US.

Check Veena,she works in Australia and is CEO of Smart company

Chili also does this

Same Philippines too

Japan and North Korea has the cleanest surroundings ever I've seen in their Cities as well as the Country Side.

Jobal Doctolero Lol 😂

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@@CosmodarCrew wow, I'm in Australia. Sweden seems OCD about it all. I guess we'll all be like you in few years. I wouldn't be comfortable living near a forest with the rise in unprecedented fire activity. In Australia foliage = fuel load that can generate massive fires with their own weather systems and fire vortexes. Brace yourself, climate change's going to get uglier than we can imagine.

Same in Nepal 😭

Morgan Sinclair we have problems, yes. But destroyed? That's not true, I love life here. Sweden is still one of the most developed countries and a leading democracy. That's why we can do stuff like in this video. Don't believe the media, experience it yourself and stop commenting lies

Iron Mocker because of socialism, same as Britain, Canada, Germany, USA etc

Ofc hum honge in top 20 😊

@@honeyrathi100 ya.. Brother We Will❤️✨

2025 tak nahi honge, we have a long way to go to even meet an acceptable enivornement, forget top 20. We should first start working better education, better healthcare, etc

That is extremely ambitious, India is one of the most polluted countries!

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they divided the trash. If you say toxic may would be a plastic. but mostly they burn a organic and paper material to burn it. so there's no toxicity. you must learn about thermodynamics cycle in creating heat energy source

probably use something similar to a catalytic converter among other processes

They use incinerator with filters who filter the poisonous gases.

I agree, Magdalena Aggari De Guzman. Carbon Dioxide is the LEAST of the worries regarding the burning of waste.

Use of filters which are designed for that work.

Not really. There a company that uses plastic to make roads, then theres another company that turnes plastic into bricks to build houses. They all forget about one major problem though; microplastics. Even mlre harmful than regular plastic because it's so tiny you dont even see it.

Hmm, I'll push back against that assertion and point out that tar is being used for roads already and micro plastics can come from driving on asphalt made from tar, also building products are also made from plastic too. In order to remove a massive supply of micro plastics from the environment, getting plastic out of the landfill and locked into bricks and roads will certainly reduce the micro plastics in the environment. It is the plastic waste that is being dumped into the ocean that makes much of the micro plastics from wave action on macro plastics

Ghana has lot of e waste.

Imagine we are to recycle them

No that is not true. Most Americans look at problems in the world and "go solve them" without taking care of their own problems first. You need to look out for number one more. Stop trying to bomb the world into freedom and bliss. Hey Flint is a real mess, why not just drop a MOAB to fix the problem? It works everywhere else in the world with no ill side effects right?

Where is the last place USA “helped”?

@@wontbefooledagain9400 Iraq. Ask one

That also happens in Portugal

You gotta see investors scared and loose funds due to ignorance

I have been in such situation before and it wasn’t an easy one

That is so huge

i I’m living testimony of automate ,they change my financial status to a better standard

Automate is obviously the best, I invested $2,000 on a profit of $4000 in 7 days.

How many months it will decompose?

The general concept is pretty open source. If you want to introduce it to the Philippines just contact the Swedish development agency.

Naku eh karamihan sa atin ay walang desiplina at isa pa sa Sweden ay walang bumibili ng bakal bote kaya ang daming nagnanakaw ng bakal sa atin, sa Sweden halos lahat ng tao ay disiplinado at naguumpisa yan sa bahay pangalawa sa eskwelan at pangatlo sa work...

We smart we swedes

The same ways cars do it, but better.

Maybe they separate emissions? ;-D

I think it's filters

Same

gtfo

Yep, I know, it's an embarrassment. Meanwhile, we pay a lot of money for heating and electricity...