The only country in the world falls into a shortage of garbage

Estonia is the only garbage importer in the world to maintain a full-capacity power plant.

Last year, Estonia imported 56,000 tons of waste to run an energy plant in the city of Iru. Estonia is in the irony because it does not waste enough waste, making the power plant ineffective, writes Eesti Paeveleht.

Waste and electricity treatment plant in the city of Iru, Estonia is in serious shortage of garbage.

According to statistics in 2015, households and businesses in Estonia only "produce" 395,000 tons of garbage with half of this is buried or recycled. The factory in Iru consumes 245,000 tons of rubbish per year and is forced to import garbage to meet demand.

The waste treatment plant into electricity in Estonia is a new type of renewable energy plant in which electricity is generated by burning flammable gases such as methane, methanol and ethanol from garbage.

Garbage sources come mainly from Finland and sometimes Iceland. Chairman of the board Eesti Energia Raine Pajo said that the garbage import is very good for Estonia: "It is necessary to confess that the treatment of foreign waste brings no small benefit".

However, importing garbage at the Eesti Energia factory doesn't have to be much. Estonian Environment Department announced that local waste must be disposed of first, then new import paper was issued.