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haha bobo im green

In Sweden, they take garbage and turn it into renewable energy:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/10/28/163823839/sweden-wants-your-trash

in fact, it's going so well that:

>Only 4 percent of Swedish garbage ends up in a landfill, according to Swedish Waste Management. Due to its efficiency in converting waste to renewable energy, Sweden has recently begun importing around 800,000 tons of trash annually from other countries.

now let's contrast that with America:

>In the United States, where the EPA says 250 million tons of trash was generated in 2010 alone, only about 34 percent was recycled.

Why are we so wildly inefficient compared to Sweden?

another article that discusses this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/09/02/sweden-recycling_n_5738602.html