Comments for Sweden Wants to Import More Trash at http://www.ecogeek.org , comment 1 to 7 out of 7 comments http://www.ecogeek.org Sun, 19 May 2013 11:11:04 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.ecogeek.org/monitoring-pollution/3808-sweden-wants-to-import-more-trash#comment-47565 I'm so tired of always hearing about dangerous dioxins being a problem with waste incineration! Yes, dioxin is very bad, and yes dioxin is produced when burning waste, but only when burnt at too low temperatures, like when burning it in a heap on the ground! In all modern incinerators dioxins have long been eliminated. Please stop using this kind of disinformation and scaremongering! Incineration is an excellent way to deal with waste that can't be recycled any other way, especially if both the heat and electricity is used, as done in Sweden (where I'm from). - Mathias Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:36:40 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/monitoring-pollution/3808-sweden-wants-to-import-more-trash#comment-47510 I think that is amazing that they even burn trash to start off with. If the US could look into some of the possibilities to be a greener country, it would be a huge boost. It's so cool that they actually have gotten their trash down to such a minimum that they need to find more trash. If we, in the US, could adopt some of these creative ways to help our environment we would be on our way to succes. - Eliza Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:33:56 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/monitoring-pollution/3808-sweden-wants-to-import-more-trash#comment-47356 The emissions from these plants in comparison to the emissions the households would do if they all used independant heating is worth a consideration. Instead of using fossil fuels for the heating, which was the case before the district heating plants. They now use recycled waste with low emissions. The biggest part of the fuels used in these plants are waste products from paper, and wood industries. - Environmentalist Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:41:07 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/monitoring-pollution/3808-sweden-wants-to-import-more-trash#comment-47317 This a fascinating thought... a country has become so good at reducing their trash production that they actually need to import some to maintain proper operation of their facilities. I'm glad to see that they do not believe this is a long-term solution, but I do hope that other countries might take notice of how opposite this problem is from those usually faced by countries when it comes to the amount of trash they produce. If Sweden can reduce their trash production this much, clearly we should be attempting to apply their procedures in other countries around the world. - Q Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:34:11 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/monitoring-pollution/3808-sweden-wants-to-import-more-trash#comment-47292 Who can ever thought that we can produce energy from trash. The nordic countries, have some of the most sophisticated environment technologies, but also ideas. The downside though are very important to consider. It's very good that they import trash and have found a way to capitalize, but what about the dioxins that in time can cause serious damage to the athmosphere. We live in the industrialized no doubt, but what is the next step, what reserve us this ongoing pollution that we keep doing it to the environment.!? I hardly think that we can have a safe time, in 20-30 years from now. The world starts to be day by day more and more drawn, attracted by technology, improvment - but negative. - Ecosystem Fri, 21 Sep 2012 03:28:18 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/monitoring-pollution/3808-sweden-wants-to-import-more-trash#comment-47279 burn only reduces the volume of. Not a real waste management. - yesillink Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:09:19 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/monitoring-pollution/3808-sweden-wants-to-import-more-trash#comment-47262 Burning trash is a big challenge, because there's so little control over what goes into the trash, so it's always crucial to educate for eco-intelligence, and to enforce as necessary. But there's also a better way to combust carbon-based biomass: pyrolysis. See listed website for the ideas springing up all over the world and being implemented as carbon-negative technology! - Brian Cartwright Tue, 18 Sep 2012 07:33:29 +0100