Sweden Is Great at Turning Trash to Energy | HowStuffWorks
(That's not exactly the case, as we'll get into later.) But hype aside, Sweden does a pretty impressive job of keeping its municipal solid waste —, garbage — out of landfills. In the, nearly 53 percent of the stuff we discard in the trash ends up being buried. The Swedes, in comparison, only put only 31,000 tons (28,122 ...