Sweden to import trash from Norway

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[h=1]Sweden forced to import trash from Norway to create heat and electricity[/h][h=2]Norway pays Sweden to take its trash, Sweden gets the heat and electricity, and Sweden exports the burned debris back to Norway. Swedes aren’t producing enough garbage for their successful watse-to-energy program.[/h]Comments (8)[h=3]BY CHARLIE WELLS / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS[/h][h=5]PUBLISHED: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2012, 10:20 PM[/h][h=5]UPDATED: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2012, 10:20 PM[/h]

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[h=4]VATTENFALL/VIA FLICKR[/h][h=4]The Uppsala central heat plant at the combined heat and power plant. Sweden is a leading recycler, sending just 4 percent of its trash to landfills. Its waste-to-energy program generates 20 percent of the nation’s district heating and electricity for a quarter-million homes, but it needs a
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The deal works out pretty well for Sweden.

Norway pays Sweden to take its trash, and Sweden gets heat and electricity and then exports the burned debris back to Norway.


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