SWEDISH RECYCLING PROGRAM IS MUCH BETTER THAN THE USA
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2024
- Two words, Swedish Garbage. Did you know that the recycling program in Sweden is so organized that every apartment building has its own little garbage house!?
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My pet peeve with recycling rooms/houses: Too many don't flatten cartons before throwing them away. So, where I live its not uncommon for one big ass carton taking up all the space 😆
Or people who don't remove the plastic screws on milk cartons, and those who despite all the signs not to do it wrap their kompostpåse in a plastic bag.
Besides what you showed we also have an special container where we can throw away old tv´s pc´s or any other electronic "stuff". So they can recycle valuable metalls from semi conductors. Just like they recycle the litium from the batteries so they can make new ones´s. Batteries and semi conductor´s
I really feel bad for you now because you have such a longer distance to your garbage house than I have and yet I complain and do have the option to go via the basement and then out to where the house is. I am not complaining anymore ,lol!
It's amazing how Sweden, as a country, has implemented these recycling items into different separate categories. It is educated to the new (next) generation of children (barnan) from the schools across this country, from the previous generation and so on and on. It has been going on since the early 1980's, that I have heard about this from other Swedes. Sweden's "System Bologet" has a recycling for clear and color glass bottles too. So, if your going there, you can take it with you when your going to buy alcohol and beer, so they will be happy accept them. Great video content on your channel Kimberly.
03:00 omg someone threw styrofoam in the carton-disposal. That's basically considered a crime against humanity in sweden.
I was going to say that I mean everyone knows that should go with plastic
the best thing you said On the program today it was the weather That's why we Swedes love to travel to warmer countries or go skiing in the mountains.but we are heading in the right direction down there where you live we had tropical heat 3600 years ago to 8000 years ago we had pelicans down in Skåne and southern Sweden every year it will get hotter and hotter So you have a future hope you are enjoying yourself
Interesting to watch even as a Swede. I live in a villa and I am embarrassed to admit that I have never been inside a "soprum" before 😮 We have only one green plastic dust-cart (and lots of different colored bags which we use).
I live in a "villa" (again), since 2019. But I have still not dared to use that green garbage container. I'm not allowed to put garbage in it anymore, acccording to the officials that I have called. It's only for "things like" tops, dish cloths and used "window envelopes" (sic). I'm forced to pay for it though. I separate glass and metal, like I always did and drive to the "recycling stations" in the industrial area of town with it. They burn most of the plastic anyway, even the sorted. So that part is all like a charade to me.
Some apartment complexes have these on site. My apartment is 1 of 20 in 3 houses next to each other, and does not. (There is a battery box on the side of the house though.)
Papers/magazines, glass containers, paper/cardboard containers, andmetal containers/packaging go with me when I do the weekly shopping (to drop in big containers next to the store). Other recyclables that aren't papers/magazines/containers i need to take to a recycling center, about 4km out of my usual way. The more frequent sites is the responsibility of the producers of goods, to recycle packaging+ papers and magazines - you're not allowed/supposed to drop other recyclables, even of the same category, say metal or plastics, there. That must instead go to the bigger center, most often run by the council/county [kommun] where households have X free visits per year (number varies by where you live)
Remaining trash, separated as compostable/non compostable we've got wheelie bins for in a small house by our parking lot.
oh man, not a frying pan in the metallic waste! or the styrofoam take away in the cardboard recycling! We have such good recycling houses, yet it seems like people haven't read the instructions even once.
It's not a garbagehouse....
It's an enviromentalhouse....
: D
Pretty sure it varies a bit depending on where you are. At least that's how it is in Norway.
Where I live we sort food, plastic and paper separately. Plastic is anything plastic, even harder ones like detergent bottles, and paper also includes cardboard and cartons.
Glass used to be separated with colored in one and clear glass + metal in one. These days its all mixed.
Glass and metal used to be in more central locations like near grocery stores around here, but now each household or apartment complex have their own.
There are still big bins for used clothing by Fretex around, which is a second hand store run by the Salvation Army.
I love your videos you do. I am from Sweden.
Hi Kimberly !
You can call them small houses soprum (garbage rooms) they are often called recycling stations.
Skål Tom.
That’s a very neat “soprum” and your system is pretty similar to the one we have here in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 We probably copied the Swedish😅 We do have a few extra containers: Chemicals (paint, meds, spraycans etc), Small electronics and cables and another one for metal, and next month we get one for textile fibre so that’s going to be exciting. I saw a documentary with a lady in a village in 🇯🇵 and she was sorting into 34 different fractions. I think of her when I get frustrated over recycling the different kinds of plastic😊❤
"and next month we get one for textile fibre so that’s going to be exciting" 😂😂😂😂 We scandinavians enyoj the small things in life!! Greetings from Sweden for helvede! I love Denmark dude, it is amazing ❤❤❤❤
Well that one looked pretty nice, where i live lots of the times people just dump their garbage on the floor, things that should have been going to the recycling central but they are too stupid or lazy to do that.
We live in a house in Eskilstuna and sort our garbage in 7 differens coloured plastic bags that we put in the same container that is collected by the garbage truck. It is all sorted automatic at the recycling central. It is a bit problematic to find room for everything under the zink
My landlord put up security cameras in our garbage room and laundry room!
Also some plastic and aluminium-bottles/cans gives you money back If you take them to recycling-machines 😃
Systembolaget also has a deposit system for some glass bottles.
Aluminium cans? I have never heard about that before. Which cans and where can I recycle them?
@@reineh3477 Seriously?
Deposit (pant) on aluminium cans (soda, beer, energy drinks etc) has been around a looong time. Pretty much any aluminium drinks can sold in Sweden should have a ”Pant 1kr" label in the print/artwork, along with three bent arrows in a triangle shape. (General recycling symbol)
Can be returned in pretty much any reasonable size food store.
If I understand it correctly the EAN bar code of valid products is registered in the system and the return machine checks for them, and won't accept a bottle w/o label or with a foreign EAN.
@@michaeltempsch5282 at first I was thinking about food cans, a few hours later when I had a late shower I thought, maybe he meant soda cans, I haven't bought them in years.
@@reineh3477 Can happen when one isn't "in the market".
Ihaven't seen any food cans made of aluminium (which if course does not excluse the possibility), only the occasional frozen/chilled item on an alu foil tray, but no deposit on those, so they go with the steel cans in the bin for metal...
Befooooore this program evolved in sweden ... we used to have holes in the wall with a little door.. juuust outside the apartment door, for garbage bags :D But stuff got stuck I suppose.. and I guess that people wouldn't sort their garbage if they had this hole for unsorted gargare closer than the garbare sorting room (and indoors) :D
In English "garbage shute"
@@Windgonner ye ye but ours are were literally a round hole :D
I rented a room a couple of months in an apartment when they still had the garbage shutes in use! Only for non recyclables but I was very unimpressed to see one, haven't used one since I was a young child before that.
Hej-hej! Like me the Christmas tree is still in the room. 😁
hahah yes!
Hi, Kimberly! I found your channel very interesting. Would ever considering going back to US?
Garbage handling in Sweden is a good thing but I don’t like that some of the trash, like plastic, is just burned up, but I can understand why.
Sadly plastics can often be hard to recycle - some types more easily than others, but still tends to need to be very well sorted for it to be possible...
At least we extract energi (electricity and/or heat) , and the fumes/gasses are filtered, instead of stuff slowly breaking down/leaking in/from landfills (with the occasional unfiltered fire...)
Unfortunately plastic is hard to recycle, and when too much non recyclables (wish recycling) go into the bin it's not economical to recycle it anymore so it gets burned.
Somebody had trown plastic in the cardboard container :(
I saw that too......and there was a stainless steel pan in the metal one...... thing is the pan isnt packaging and shouldn't be there.....wierd yes but its all about money as usual......all those plastic and metal packages we pay a recycling fee for.......and the pan isnt Package......🙄😉🤣
Where I live, my housing association has a big problem with people being illiterate, too many who can't read and understand how to sort rubbish. It's always chaos.
Good Bless 🇺🇸 America that’s a second job
Kull med samma feeling! Jag ger praktikanten fuljobben men mår lite dåligt efter det så jag ger honom något "viktigare" dagen efter...
sunday??? it is monday 2023-01-30
I filmed it on a Sunday :)
Is there anything in Sweden and the other Nordic country , that not is better ?
Hate all swedish weather or more like november and winter?
Basically every month except for the 2 weeks in August when it's hot 😁
Every time I throw out garbage I have to put metal,food,cardboard in the same trash,LIKE CAN’T TURKEY BE MORE ECO-FRIENDLY.
I miss Sweden’s eco-friendly environment
One bin for foodwaste for multiple apartments? That's a joke! We had 3 in our for 42 apartments... Picked up every week. Must be 10-50 apartments a least sharing that one. And one... One! For food???
Food waste is baaaad ;D Maybe that one is enough for that area :)
That is crazy! My housing coop consists of 18 apartments and 13 terrace homes, and we have 2 small bins for food. Emptied every two weeks, and never seen them full.
We do have 4 big bins for paper and cardboard though, and two for the rest. Plastic is collected in big clear plastic bags, so no bin for that. These are both collected once a month.
Glass bins, 3 or 4 small ones, are collected every other month.
Rubbish in Sweden turns into gold whereas in USA it is usually burned or buried.
For people living in their own home there is stations with big containers instead of bins. I aways lose all hope of the sainenes of people when I throw the recycling ♻️ waste there.
I am not sure that recycling program is better than the USA because all it takes is one person to make a mistake and the whole bin is compromised. I live in a house in Florida and I have one container for all my recycling which is picked up once a week. They have people that do the sorting at the awesome recycling plant in my city. I pay a seperate bill for waste and recycling but I don't have to pick through my garbage!
Basically slaves sort your garbage and they encounter nasty things whereas in Sweden for instance every individual takes care of its rubbish so that slaves don't work as hard
@@user-po8no1xp6e Slaves? We have Swedish immigrants sort the recycling garbage.
Give it 5 months and you'll complain about it's too hot :-)
Att bara lämna granen på gatan kan ge böter på 800 kronor. - Klipp ned granen och lägg i en sopsäck så den tar mindre plats och inte barrar. Släng allt i kärlet för grovsopor i Miljörummet. Good luck!
It’s nothing special. In EUROPE.
Hello, names Howard and I'm from
Bucks County Pennsylvania. I am NOT a global warming gloom n doom environmentalist leftist. I am a Conservative. We get a bad rap for not caring about our environment. This is
absolutely NOT true ! There are people on both sides of the political Isle that either take recycling serious, or disregard it as a inconvenience .I , as a staunch Conservative take recycling religiously.
IF I had ultimate power, I would make NOT following the recycling program a
1st time hefty fine. $500. 2nd offense
$1000.fine. IF a homeowner is caught throwing recyclables in the common trash . They get these fines. Don't pay them, fine doubles.Still don't pay them you go to jail for 7 days plus expenses.
Retail shopping centers are HORRIBLE when it comes to recycling ♻️
This has to stop as well. I do commercial HVAC. I put my ladder up in the back of retail buildings. Its disgusting the abuse of not doing the right thing. Some of it is not anyone's fault Sometimes recycling dumpsters get packed to FULL capacity and that's when people start throwing recyclables in the regular dumpsters
Things need to not only get better.
They need to get a whole lot better.
Hurt people where it counts.
In their wallets. There is absolutely no excuse for this. Its being self absorbed,AND flat out laziness.
Well, in my world your laziness would cost you alot of cold hard cash.
Have to tell you again , you're so cute .