Sweden recycles 99% of its waste

Sweden is known as one of the leading sustainable development countries in the world, everything they consider to be resources, including garbage. The proportion of recycled waste of Hydroelectric households is now 99% and Sweden is willing to share this experience with Vietnam.

This information was published at the Workshop "Promoting low-carbon circulating economy in Vietnam - from the Swedish experience" by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Hanoi People's Committee and the Embassy Sweden organized the morning of November 12.

Recirculation economics - the model of choice for many countries

Currently, countries around the world are facing many challenges such as climate change, resource depletion, ecological degradation and environmental pollution due to unsustainable economic development models such as resource exploitation. natural resources as input to the economic system, through the production process of consumption and disposal to the environment.

To overcome the current constraints, a new environmentally friendly economic development method that has received the high consensus of nations in the world is the circulating economy.

According to Ann Mawe, Sweden has been moving towards a zero-waste society and ready to share its experiences with Vietnam.

Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Vo Tuan Nhan emphasized that the circulating economy brings many benefits to countries, helping countries to make the most of natural resources but limit emissions and garbage. discharged into the environment. This is a development model that minimizes the exploitation of natural resources, minimizing emissions to the environment by utilizing the waste from this cycle as input resources for the next cycle.

This new mode of economic development brings about many national benefits in addressing global challenges caused by environmental issues, climate change and improving national competitiveness; The benefit to society is to take advantage of used resources and materials, instead of consuming them to process and minimize the exploitation of natural resources, making the most of resources value and minimizing minimize emissions, discharge to the environment; Benefits for businesses are reduced risks of overproduction crisis, scarcity of resources and creation of job opportunities.

Speaking at the seminar, Ms. Ann Mawe, Ambassador of Sweden, emphasized: "In a circulating economy, everything is considered a resource, including trash. for both businesses and consumers. "

99% of waste is recycled

Sweden is known as one of the leading sustainable development countries in the world, with the goal of moving towards a zero waste society. A lot of waste is recycled and used for other purposes like biogas and energy.

Sweden becomes a waste importing country, importing about 2.3 million tons of waste every year.

Swedish Ambassador, Ann Mawe, said: "Thanks to the awareness of environmental protection of the people, the encouragement of the government as well as the effective waste collection system, Sweden has made great progress. In the "recycling revolution" over the past two decades, the proportion of household waste increased from 38% in 1975 to 99% today. Also according to Ms. Ann MaweThuy, Dien ready to share her "recycling revolution" experience with Vietnam.

The effective waste classification has enabled Sweden to turn them into abundant energy and resources.(Artwork: Theplaidzebra.com)

At the seminar, Swedish experts shared examples of successes in Sweden and in the region. The representative of the Swedish Waste Management Association said that waste management is considered a public service but clearly divided roles and responsibilities between private companies - government, between cities. .

Discussing at the seminar, some experts said that after focusing on economic development for a while, Vietnam is now facing difficulties and challenges such as air pollution and pollution. water, soil and garbage. Promoting the development of circulating economy can help Vietnam limit the maximum exploitation of natural resources and limit emissions and waste into the environment. However, one of Vietnam's biggest obstacles in applying the circulating economy model is the management of collection and recycling of waste resources - input materials for the circulating economy model. .

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has developed a policy to encourage circulating economic models, recycling and recycling of iron and scrap paper . There have been some models such as eco-industrial parks in Ninh Binh and Da Nang. Can Tho initiative does not discharge into nature. Or last June, the Vietnam Packaging Recycling Union was also established .

Jeffrey Fielkow, Executive Director of Tetra Pak Vietnam, said: "We should not consider environmental issues such as climate change or waste individually but should look at the issues as a whole. In order to solve this problem, we need to achieve an open circulating economic model which not only recycles, reuses but also takes into account the impact of carbon on raw materials. and production".

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