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When it comes to environmental awareness and waste management, Sweden is one of the world's champions. The country recycles nearly all of its waste and - in the process - generates electricity and heating. France 2's Claire Colnet reports, with Nicholas Rushworth.
A programme prepared by Patrick Lovett and Laura Burloux.
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you can get the best technology all you want but if you can't change the mindset of the people it will never work, big respect to the people of Sweden
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.
I call it DISCIPLINE
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 👌😂
From Norway here. I started to really notice how much trash I produce in a month when I started sorting everything. It's amazing how much crap we get from the store just buying daily essential. There is too much plastic wrapping, a lot of stuff is not packed properly or smart,etc.
In my town, we can recycle almost everything, and it's free to drop off trash.
We could switch to glass, metal, paper and bio-plastics for packaging.
Then we could reduce a lot of domestic waste.
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.
Sweden is cold, we need the heat generated. If we didn´t burn waste we had to burn something else, like imported oil. Burning waste is much better.
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.
Each person has their own role to play in environmental protection. Well done, Sweden😇
Yes, we have to take responsibility each person ...
"ONE MAN'S TRASH IS ANOTHER MAN'S TREASURE" rightly serves the Swedish
Sweden has a 50-year plan is started back in the 1970s beautiful
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😅🤔
I live in Sweden, here there are 7 to 8 types of waste separation bins.i used to have one big boxes to hold (newspaper, regular papers, milk carton boxes, hard plastic boxes, plastic bags) and a separate bio waste bin. I used to take that big box to the garbage hut, and manually drop the waste to 8 types of waste bins. I feel very satisfied after dropping the waste, it gives a very good feeling, it give a same feeling after I successfully develop the error free code. Sweds are well organized.
Great stuff!
Lead the way, Sweden 🇸🇪
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
Arriba ESPAÑA
You will like it
You can handle the food waste if you build a compost. I started with a 40 liter bucket and now I have two for a family of four, 2 buckets is all you need if you alternately empty them. In the end the soil you get is gold, best fertilizer in the world.
I try to reuse plastics 2-3 times before throwing them, for cardboard, metal and hard plastics I sell them or give them free to the local collectors who sell these as scrap to recycle station. I live in India and the municipal waste service sucks so I have to make do with whatever I can.
What Sweden is doing here is doing this in a very efficient way.
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.
Meanwhile in india.... roads are your dustbin....
Hope it changes.
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.
Swedish society are certainly more mature, well mannered, educated and sophisticated in order to perform such duties.
Love from Malaysia
Amazing Sweden. Hope the whole world adopt this completely.
Excellent. The US could learn a lot from Sweden's recycle processing methods.
Sweden is far ahead of others
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
The whole world needs to learn this. I love how recycling is embedded in their culture itself. You can have all the tech & equipment in the world but if the general public doesn't work together, there's no point of all the tech
The USA needs to start doing this!!!! Like NOW!
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".
If Sweden can do this why can't every other country do it ?
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
Amazing Sweden.
Sweden is sweet and brilliant
Interesting how Europe is discussing the best way to recycle/reuse while other countries are still convincing their populations that SOMETHING needs to be done.
True respect to mother Earth. Swedes I love you.
same happens in denmark.. and we have shops all over that sell used stuff.
theyre usually manned by old unpaid people that just need content in their day.
they recieve the things free and all profit after coffee and rent is off to charity.. like red cross. children aid etc.
furniture. clothes ,, everything..
a great place to find books and sometimes rare items.
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
This is Fantastic. We need this in the U.S. There's trash everywhere What an eyesore it is to
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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Great job Sweden for leading the GREEN way. In my Hawaiian culture this is referred to as "Mālama ʻĀina." The land/environment is the chief and we are its servants. Aloha.
Aloha
❤
Aloha 🇺🇸
there 2 person i admire for making all of this system work well..
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first was the government that support for recycling the trash into something and spent alot of money to make a facility
but also
the second was the sweden people that not only support the program but they also throw the trash in the correct dustbin
Ruling small mostly homogeneous European countries are easy
I am neeha 12 yrs old .i am an indian i am proud to be. i am working on a model and my topic is waste management and this a national level competetion. I hope that till 2025 india will also be there in the top 20 clean .
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!
💓🌱
Why be so negative about incineration, it generates vital heating needed in their climate.
@@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.
Wow! Great Ideas! We all could learn from Sweden,how to keep,this beautiful,earth clean?
It's about dang time! Waste is a commodity.
I am becoming to be disturbed by how much waste humans produce. I am 14 and have lived my whole life in the US, I have been living in Brasil for 3 months now and I have realized that it is much easier to live zero waste in the US. I am mad at my self that I wasn’t interested in trying to create less waste when my opportunities were so much more in my favor.
Kudos to Sweden. Show the world plz
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
Meanwhile india is going plastic ban without any homework.
Awesome. Such creative and eco-friendly work should be encouraged.
Much respect to Sweden. Well deserved! Your a beautiful people ❣
this is so admirable. i am from kenya and we have trash everywhere. i wish we knew how to turn all the waste into electricity. this would certainly help everyone. way to go sweden
Same in Nepal 😭
Comfort is our worst enemy. Everything's disposable. Glass bottles, biodegradable bags should be mandatory
Norway, Sweden & Denmark are way ahead of thinking about the modern world if and only if America allow them to exist.
To a certain extent Finland, Iceland & Russia are also doing tremendous contribution toward a prosperous future world.
I do think the cold climate make people prepare in advance than any other people live elsewhere.
I love you, 🇸🇪 Sweden!
Excellent report and interview with guest.
It's hard to believe that the smoke from the stack is not toxic. They need to explain how they get rid of the toxicity from the waste as they are burned. What kind of filter do they use, for example. They need to explain, say, things that are plastic, and they are burned. What toxic chemicals are released in the air?
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.
I hope that this technology and system can also be implemented in other parts of the globe where proper waste disposal is much needed. I hope the Swedish Government would partner with developing nations such as the Philippines to implement these kinds of systems. We want to contribute too and reduce our carbon footprint.
Everyone ♻️ in Sweden, it’s normal
If they made Americans go and drop off their waste rather than curb side pickup, the whole country would be a mess. Most people look out for number one. Themselves, not their neighbours, not their families future.
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
Very impressed. They even make money by importing waste. More countries need to do this!
smart people
the questions are so good!!
If looking for gold it is at 9:50
WOW! Love 🇸🇪 from Bangladesh 🇧🇩
Cheers for the Swedes! You're a great example of what can be done. We all breath the same air, and live on the same planet; if everyone became involved and did their part it would be a great world wide movement to preserve our planet. I'm no longer proud to say I'm from the US, where greed and self interest reigns as number one. However, I do believe one day our current status will be a distant memory and we will change our selfish way. Way to go Sweden!!!
There are processes in place, particularly in Sweden and the more advanced EU countries, to extract everything recyclable before it ends up in the incineration stack. But if the MRFs are negligent with their sorting, particularly in countries which send their waste residual to Sweden, then the Swedish incineration engineers won't go the extra yard to do a final sort to get the missed recyclable stuff. They probably would not be permitted to even if they wanted to. So it should be incumbent on Sweden to set strict regulation on the grade of the waste being imported into Sweden for incineration.
Saving the planet . I love how swedish people are all acting together to make the world a better place. With love from the bay ( vallejo ) California, USA
Love ❤️ and respect ✊ for sweden 🇸🇪
Well done Sweden! Recycling is great as is composting.
For the rest (and there is a lot of the rest) burning it makes a lot of sense. Electricity and heat are always valuable. When it is centralized then the fires can be more efficient and chimney's can have scrubbers.
I bet the ash piles that come out of there will have a great deal of precious metals as well. Likely the highest grade of ore possible in most cases.
I also think that turning low grade plastics into tar for paving roads makes a lot of sense as well
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
Not to mention networking around the recycling waste bins.
I live in hungary, and people look at me, like I was a homeless, but I don't care, I'm gonna recycle anyway... I want to live in Sweden so bad 🇸🇪
That also happens in Portugal
Beautiful people, beautiful country
Very interesting to know the improvement of Italy in recycling: here we have not a real perception of the waste management, as there are still a lot of aspects to improve...
I'm impressed by this kind of Waste Management,,,, Many countries especially in Africa is high time to employ this technique for not only utmost environmental conservation but for better health in accordance with Sustainable Development Goals
Wow Great idea, New innovation & Sweden is brilliant
Great job with your green project. 😎
Showing this video to all my apartment association. Hopefully, we can get enough like minded people to work towards a similar system!
I wish my country Philippines could do the same and have discipline for the environment. Seems impossible.
Great initiative. Thumps up to citizens of Sweden for embracing recycling. Hoping my country Ghana follow suit
Ghana has lot of e waste.
Imagine we are to recycle them
To everyone who is thinking of starting their own business, believe in yourself and never give up.Your future self will be thankful
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.
Great example!Hope others learn from them!
This is wonderful I hope all the countries can see and do this.
All industrialized countries should be following suit! Much love from Canada 🇨🇦
Bravo. Happy new year Swedish people. 😇
Burning waste in an environmentally friendly way and recovering all that useful energy and metals is brilliant! Japan is another world leader in this regard. Parts of North America are catching up now too. I wonder if some of that heat could also be used for steel making, glass or plastic recycling too. That would be really good!
I don't understand why this isn't being done around the globe.
Swedish IKEA released a packaging that can be composted mushroom based material.
How many months it will decompose?
I wish the UK made more efforts in this field!!
Wow, this is great, I hope this is the future for all to follow
Reduce , refuse and reuse are also..some of the most important steps to take..
But it's just to hard for me.. as my parents generate a lot of waste ... they buy plastic bottles and takeaways instead of refilling their bottles... in fact even when i bring water with myself.. they would still buy bottles..
Sweden pls. Introduce to Philippines and to the world...
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...
Well done Sweden, this is amazing.
It is really inspiring.. Hope my country will follow this path..
There's a typo in the title, *its* is supposed to be *it's*
Everyone knows Scandinavia is the best. 🇳🇴🇸🇪🇩🇰,👍
How do they avoid dioxins when burning that waste?
We smart we swedes
The same ways cars do it, but better.
Maybe they separate emissions? ;-D
I think it's filters
Every country needs to do this, period.
Wow!!! ...... now that is exclent 👌👌👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Seeing this gives me hope. Sweden will lead us to the green world!
Luv Sweden from India
we do sort garbage the same way here in norway, but i think that different types of plastics don't get sorted properly which it should. that's not on the people but the companies to change.
Love Sweden, from the Philippines 🇵🇭
This would be fantastic in Nigeria
im a swede and honestly ive just recycled everyday. its just something ive grown with
Same
Now that is a true dicipline and innovative move. Here in the Philippines we are striving to have one..with tons of waste, we still have a long way to overcome the pain and nightmare of trash and garbage.
i hope people in the philippines will learn from this.
Oh Sweden ❤️😘😎💪🏽
I love some Swedes ; Måns Zelmerlöw and Greta and Swedish giant IKEA (waiting patiently for IKEA Philippines in 2020) and now this ... love and respect to you 🇸🇪
U.S should do this too. They should lead and let everyone follows them. Sweden, Denmark are smaller countries. Anything they do will not be listened by the whole world. U.S is far behind because they are busy feeding NRA (national rifle association). NRA will teach kids how to use a rifle but not how to protect the environment.
Appreciable
I am doing the same thing in india where I am living
Collecting all the house hold plastic monthly and give it to the plastic collectors. Instead of throwing it out or with municipal dumping yards which are not efficient in recycling
To be fair we do recycle. We will be draged to court if we don't. When we have recycled however everything is transported to the same facility and is then burnet. It's called energy recycling. They do however burn it without producing energy most of the time.
Waste from the UK. This just about sums us up.
gtfo
Yep, I know, it's an embarrassment. Meanwhile, we pay a lot of money for heating and electricity...
I would be so anxious wondering which bin to use. Would rather stay inside.
This looks very promising and quite sensible something that people can really understand and take part in well done