{"id":2440,"date":"2014-11-24T21:31:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T21:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2014-11-24T21:31:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T21:31:31","slug":"sweden-recycles-99-of-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/?p=2440","title":{"rendered":"Sweden recycles 99% of Waste?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I ran across an article claiming that Sweden now recycles 99% of all it&#8217;s waste. Interested to learn how the Swede&#8217;s had figured out the recycling conundrum the rest of the world faces, I delved into the article. To my dismay, this was clever redirecting and marketing. Somehow it is now considered recycling to burn trash??<br \/>\n<a title=\"See the video\" href=\"http:\/\/truththeory.com\/2014\/09\/17\/sweden-is-now-recycling-99-percent-of-its-trash-heres-how-they-do-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/truththeory.com\/2014\/09\/17\/sweden-is-now-recycling-99-percent-of-its-trash-heres-how-they-do-it\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sweden does have high recycling rates (in the traditional definition of recycling), here are the 2013 figures:<\/p>\n<p>Material Percentage<br \/>\nGlass 89.00 %<br \/>\nCardboard 77.20 %<br \/>\nMetal 73.10 %<br \/>\nPlastic 36.70 %<br \/>\nDrinking containers 88%<br \/>\nBiodegradable food waste 13.5 %<br \/>\nOffice paper 66%<br \/>\nBatteries 65%<\/p>\n<p>More sources of statistics can be found here (summary in swedish): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sopor.nu\/Rena-fakta\/Avfallsmaengder\/Statistik\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sopor.nu\/Rena-fakta\/Avfallsmaengder\/Statistik<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, when did we redefine recycling to include incineration? There is no environmental benefit to redefining verbiage to skew the data and make ourselves feel better. Let&#8217;s just stick with the actual facts and forget the clever re-directions: Sweden recycles about 49% of their trash, they incinerate about 50% and the remaining is landfilled. No sugar coating needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I ran across an article claiming that Sweden now recycles 99% of all it&#8217;s waste. Interested to learn how the Swede&#8217;s had figured out the recycling conundrum the rest of the world faces, I delved into the article. To my dismay, this was clever redirecting and marketing. Somehow it is now considered recycling to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,739,743,1],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-blogs","category-recycling-2","category-thought-provoking","category-uncategorized","tag-recycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions\/2448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}