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Police in western Sweden have been ordered to cease pouring seized alcoholic drinks down the drain due to the risk of poisoning the local water supply.
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Why does Sweden do these extremely weird things? Confiscate booze? How uncivilised can you get?
"as the mountain of bottles and beer cans"
Does that suggest much of your good citizenry don't agree with puritanical laws?
Ideally the Systembolaget could even resell them at a "discounted price" as it surely will have cost them less - but, of course, that will never happen! I don't agree with the alcohol politics in Sweden, but selling the confiscated booze even at full retail seems a heck of a better solution than just pouring it down the drain. At least then there will be some (more) tax income obtained from it.
Problem solved.
The puritans might not agree.
I understood that confiscated alcohol is already used to boost the energy rating of biogas , in some installations at least.