One of the initial goals of all recycling programs is the minimization of waste entering the landfills, because if you remove all recyclable materials from the trash you’ve got a whole lot less mess to deal with.
Most recycling programs have changed the waste management game quite a bit, reducing the amount of trash that ends up in landfills by 50 percent or more and giving us an abundant supply of recycled materials such as paper pulp, aluminum and glass.
But Sweden, never to be outdone, has made their recycling programs so efficient the country is actually running out of rubbish, so they’ve begun importing trash from other EU countries to keep their recycling plants going:
Over time, Sweden has implemented a cohesive national recycling policy so that even though private companies undertake most of the business of importing and burning waste, the energy goes into a national heating…
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