Monday, November 5, 2012

Sweden wants your trash!

This article talks about Sweden discovering a new way to use trash. The trash becomes energy. Also,they reduce garbage which is only four percent of  the garbage  in Sweden that ends up a landfill. In the United States,250 million tons of trash were generated in 2010 alone, only about 34 percent was recycled.
However, Sweden has recently begun importing around 800,000 tons of trash annually from other countries. For example,Norway is paying them now. and in the future, Bulgaria, Romania and Italy  will be trash exporters to Sweden. It was surprising that Sweden  succeeded  to reduce trash.I think that we should start reduce and deduce our things for environment. and then if one of country succeeded something, they help each other for the world.

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





end up: phv
           to have a particular result,or finish in s particular way.

due to: phv
          because of.

efficiency: noun
              the quality of doing something well and effectively,without  wasting time,money, or
              energy.

convert : verb
             to change from one from,system,or purpose to a different one.
           
annually : adverb
             happening once a year.


(be) set on  : phv
                  to be very determined about something.

exporter : a person,company or country that sells and sends goods to another country.

1 comment:

  1. Hi, Yoko. I read your refrection. It is a big problem that people product a lot of trashes. I think in case of Sweden is so good for enviroment. we should reduse a lot of trash and help each other countries for earth.

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