Sweden: Please Send Us Your Garbage
With Swedes recycling almost half (47 percent) of their waste and using 52 percent to generate heat, less than 1 percent of garbage now ends up in the dump.
Author Elisabeth Braw
Elisabeth Braw joined Newsweek following a Visiting Fellowship at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. Previously she was Senior Reporter at the Metro International newspaper group, focusing on interviews with political and business leaders. Prior to that, she reported for Swedish newspapers from Washington, DC, and San Francisco. Elisabeth is also a freelance culture writer for The Economist, and writes about business and sustainability for the Guardian.