waste=energy but not in the USA of course...we suck. We're only good at blowing things and people up.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/01/18/unwasted-documentary-recycling.aspx?e_cid=20140118Z1_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20140118Z1&et_cid=DM37766&et_rid=402794555

Sweden is a country worth taking note of when it comes to successful waste management. According to recent media coverage,4, 5 Sweden, which uses waste incineration to create electricity,6 has depleted its waste stores and is actually “importing” as much as 80,000 tons of refuse from Norway each year. Swedes are so meticulous about recycling that only four percent of Swedish garbage ends up in landfills.

Of course the good ole USA...

Americans produce more and more garbage every year. According to Deanna Carveth, Projects Coordinator for Snohomish County Solid Waste Division, featured in the film, it took only 12 years to pack one 56 acre landfill with 3.5 million tons of garbage...

And that’s just one dump site in one US county. Landfills, once filled, become unusable for anything else. Plastic pollution is perhaps one of the greatest challenges we face, as it’s now entering the food chain. Petroleum-based plastics are designed to last forever.

I would love to see a 25 cent deposit on EVERY plastic bottle.. That would cut down on a lot of the plastic in the landfills, but the dang voters would fight it like crazy to save that 25 cents.. Same thing for glass bottles..

Jake92 wrote:I would love to see a 25 cent deposit on EVERY plastic bottle..  That would cut down on a lot of the plastic in the landfills, but the dang voters would fight it like crazy to save that 25 cents..  Same thing for glass bottles..

A 12 oz bottle of water for 1.25 and people pay it, even when there's a water fountain in the building...are we insane ? Buy a refillable $1.00 gallon jug of purified water and fill a permanent carry bottle every morning..is that so hard? Make the throw a ways  redeemable for a penny a bottle and the homeless would clean them up for us.

we should have never gotten away from glass.

I have long despised plastic water bottles or even drinking glasses. I refuse to use them.

but it seems drinking out of plastic water bottles is "FAD".

"Make the throw a ways  redeemable for a penny a bottle and the homeless would clean them up for us."  THAT is one of the biggest problems we have in this country, depending for someone else to clean up the mess we make!!!!!!  I've NEVER heard 1 person say they got fined for throwing trash out the window of their car..  I'm sure the McDonalds wrappers didn't fly out of the garbage truck by itself..  Ticket them and fine the crap out of enough people and it will stop..

TEOTWAWKI wrote:http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/01/18/unwasted-documentary-recycling.aspx?e_cid=20140118Z1_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20140118Z1&et_cid=DM37766&et_rid=402794555

Sweden is a country worth taking note of when it comes to successful waste management. According to recent media coverage,4, 5 Sweden, which uses waste incineration to create electricity,6 has depleted its waste stores and is actually “importing” as much as 80,000 tons of refuse from Norway each year. Swedes are so meticulous about recycling that only four percent of Swedish garbage ends up in landfills.

Of course the good ole USA...

Americans produce more and more garbage every year. According to Deanna Carveth, Projects Coordinator for Snohomish County Solid Waste Division, featured in the film, it took only 12 years to pack one 56 acre landfill with 3.5 million tons of garbage...

And that’s just one dump site in one US county. Landfills, once filled, become unusable for anything else. Plastic pollution is perhaps one of the greatest challenges we face, as it’s now entering the food chain. Petroleum-based plastics are designed to last forever.

The country of Sweden...less than HALF the population of New York State. Brilliant.

Markle wrote:

TEOTWAWKI wrote:http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/01/18/unwasted-documentary-recycling.aspx?e_cid=20140118Z1_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20140118Z1&et_cid=DM37766&et_rid=402794555

Sweden is a country worth taking note of when it comes to successful waste management. According to recent media coverage,4, 5 Sweden, which uses waste incineration to create electricity,6 has depleted its waste stores and is actually “importing” as much as 80,000 tons of refuse from Norway each year. Swedes are so meticulous about recycling that only four percent of Swedish garbage ends up in landfills.

Of course the good ole USA...

Americans produce more and more garbage every year. According to Deanna Carveth, Projects Coordinator for Snohomish County Solid Waste Division, featured in the film, it took only 12 years to pack one 56 acre landfill with 3.5 million tons of garbage...

And that’s just one dump site in one US county. Landfills, once filled, become unusable for anything else. Plastic pollution is perhaps one of the greatest challenges we face, as it’s now entering the food chain. Petroleum-based plastics are designed to last forever.

The country of Sweden...less than HALF the population of New York State.  Brilliant.

Yes they are brilliant. they stay out of wars and mind their own business and their women are HOT....why wasn't my name Sven.

TEOTWAWKI wrote:

Markle wrote:

TEOTWAWKI wrote:http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/01/18/unwasted-documentary-recycling.aspx?e_cid=20140118Z1_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20140118Z1&et_cid=DM37766&et_rid=402794555

Sweden is a country worth taking note of when it comes to successful waste management. According to recent media coverage,4, 5 Sweden, which uses waste incineration to create electricity,6 has depleted its waste stores and is actually “importing” as much as 80,000 tons of refuse from Norway each year. Swedes are so meticulous about recycling that only four percent of Swedish garbage ends up in landfills.

Of course the good ole USA...

Americans produce more and more garbage every year. According to Deanna Carveth, Projects Coordinator for Snohomish County Solid Waste Division, featured in the film, it took only 12 years to pack one 56 acre landfill with 3.5 million tons of garbage...

And that’s just one dump site in one US county. Landfills, once filled, become unusable for anything else. Plastic pollution is perhaps one of the greatest challenges we face, as it’s now entering the food chain. Petroleum-based plastics are designed to last forever.

The country of Sweden...less than HALF the population of New York State.  Brilliant.

Yes they are brilliant. they stay out of wars and mind their own business and their women are HOT....why wasn't my name Sven.

Sweden was Nazi sympathizers and assisted them during WWII. That's why there is no love lost between Norway and Sweden to this day.

Whatever, I guess if you don't pick a side you are a sympathizer with whoever loses. This world isn't all that simple except for some.

Quote: Officially, Sweden was neutral during WWII, joining the only seven other countries in Europe to follow a similar route, i.e. Ireland, Portugal, Switzerland, Spain, Andorra, Liechtenstein and Vatican City. At the outbreak of hostilities, Sweden had held a neutral stance in international relations for more than a century, since the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815. The Swedish Government made a few concessions, and sometimes breached the nation's neutrality in favor of both Germany and the Western Allies.

During the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Sweden allowed the Wehrmacht to use Swedish railways to transport [June–July 1941] the 163rd Infantry Division along with howitzers, tanks and anti-aircraft weapons and associated ammunition, from Norway to Finland. German soldiers traveling on leave between Norway and Germany were allowed passage through Sweden — the so-called permittenttrafik. Iron ore was sold to Germany throughout the war.

And for the Allies, Sweden shared military intelligence and helped to train soldiers made up of refugees from Denmark and Norway, to be used in the liberation of their home countries. Sweden also became a refuge for anti-fascist and Jewish refugees from all over the region. In 1943, following an order to deport all of Denmark's Jewish population to concentration camps, nearly all of Denmark's 8,000 Jews were brought to safety in Sweden. Sweden also became a refuge for Norwegian Jews.