recycling
How Sweden makes international students recycling converts
If there is one thing you need to know before coming to Sweden, it's that sorting trash is a serious matter. Swedes champion recycling, and within a few months you'll be a connoisseur too.
Swedes threw away almost half a tonne of trash per person in 2017
The amount of trash being thrown away has increased in Sweden, with almost half a tonne (473 kilograms) of household waste per person in 2017 – an increase of 2.5 percent.
Swedes are recycling more than ever via their bottle deposit scheme
Sweden recycled record numbers of plastic bottles and aluminium cans via its official recycling scheme 'pant' last year.
That's pant! The story behind Sweden's bottle recycling scheme
The UK plans to adopt a new recycling scheme that would see consumers pay a deposit on plastic bottles and cans. In Sweden, such rules have been in place for three decades.
Malmö to fine people who fail to sort their trash
Waste managers in Sweden's third city may introduce a fine for Malmö residents who don't properly sort their garbage after finding parts of a table in a food waste container.
Stockholm museum makes history of garbage
It may not be the Mona Lisa, but an old milk carton and other refuse can tell an interesting story about our culture, our history and ourselves, AFP's <b>Marc Preel</b> writes after visiting a Stockholm museum's new "Garbage" exhibit.
Activists slam nuclear shipment to Sweden
Environmentalists on Tuesday slammed a proposal to ship decommissioned nuclear generators to Sweden from Canada for recycling.
Mountain of foreign glass sparks recycling feud
Bickering between Swedish recycling companies and local councils over who should pay for recycling foreign booze bottles has reached breaking point, with the government now being forced to step in as a mediator.