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.
The Swedish Government Leads the Way on Sustainability
In 2007, Sweden became the first country in the world to require that state-controlled companies report on their sustainability activities in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Now it’s going further, requiring these companies to make sustainability a core consideration in their businesses.