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Yeah, the news I remembered were about Germany, specifically. it, and a few others, are at <=1% landfill: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/soci
by IfOnlyYouKnew 5y ago
Yeah, the news I remembered were about Germany, specifically.
it, and a few others, are at <=1% landfill: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/20180328STO00751/eu-waste-management-infographic-with-facts-and-figures https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/201...
- Retric 5y agoThat’s extremely misleading Germany simply uses incinerators before dumping the ash in landfills. “One nation now grappling with the legacy of its long embrace of incineration is Denmark. The country, one of Europe’s biggest waste producers, built so many incinerators that by 2018 it was importing a million tons of trash.” https://e360.yale.edu/features/in-europe-a-backlash-is-growing-over-incinerating-garbage https://e360.yale.edu/features/in-europe-a-backlash-is-growi...
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