Sweden is so good at recycling that, for several years, it has imported rubbish from other countries to keep its recycling plants going. Less than 1 per cent of Swedish household waste was sent to ...

Sweden's "recycling revolution" JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/Getty Images. More than 99% of household waste in Sweden is recycled, according to information published by the government.

The Stockholm-based IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, plastics recycling firm SvenskPlaståtervinning (Swedish Plastic Recycling) and life cycle analysis researcher Tomas Ekvall say ...

You may not know this, but Sweden is really, really good at recycling. In fact, they’ve gotten so adept at helping out the environment, they’ve started taking their neighbor’s trash. That ...

Sweden’s recycling rate is high at 49.8 per cent, but it has been flat-lining since 2006. It is ahead of the UK’s recycling rate – 44.6 per cent – but not dramatically so, ...

Mattias Philipsson, CEO of Swedish Plastic Recycling poses in front of plastic waste, stored in a new plastic waste sorting facility in Motala, central Sweden, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023.

Sweden has implemented a national recycling policy so that the energy generated by waste goes into a national heating network that keeps Sweden's homes warm year round.

Sweden has launched a state-of-the-art plastic sorting facility, big enough to receive all plastic packaging waste generated from Swedish households. ‘Site Zero’ can process 40 tons an hour ...

Mountains of clothes piling up in Swedish recycling centres are sparking calls for fashion firms to take responsibility for textile waste . S weden's recycling centres are overflowing with clothes ...

Sweden's recycling centres are overflowing with clothes after an EU-wide ban this year on throwing away textiles, leaving overwhelmed municipalities eager to have fast fashion giants take ...