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Sweden just ran out of trash.

Sweden only sends 1 percent of its waste to landfills. The US doesn’t come close.

Sweden just ran out of trash.

Sweden has run out of trash. In fact, it has become such an expert at managing its own waste that it has to import garbage from neighboring countries to keep its 32 waste-to-energy (WTE) plants running—2.7 million metric tons in 2014. Less than one percent of its trash ends up in landfills. In the United States, that percentage is 54.

So what is Sweden doing that we aren’t? And should we follow their lead?

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