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‘Queen of trash’ and employees arrested over Sweden’s ‘largest environmental crime’ (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] Fisk400@feddit.nu 78 points 2 years ago (1 children)

An important piece of context here is that Sweden basically closed all it's garbage dumps as they are traditionally known. Anything recyclable is taken to the recycling plant, anything compostable is taken to a compost and the rest is burned as fuel.

The result is that you can't just drive to the dump with your waste and you have to actually sort and manage your own waste. Or you pay these fucking knuckle draggers to take the garbage and just throw it into the woods. Lots of companies are always on the look out for weird sub contractors to do environmental crime for them and think pink just got a bit too successful.

[–] Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Why don't they put all the waste facilities right next to each other instead of making you move just to get rid of your wastes?

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 15 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Eleven people have been charged by a Swedish court in what is being billed as potentially the country’s worst environmental crime in half a century.

Harmful levels of arsenic, dioxins, lead, zinc, copper and petroleum products were found during the investigation.

Three years ago, parts of Stockholm were shrouded in smoke caused by a fire in an abandoned rubbish heap run by the company.

They are accused of handling significantly more rubbish than permitted and illegal management, allegedly causing several fires and exposing nearby residents to toxic waste.

Senior prosecutor Anders Gustafsson said the preliminary investigation, which is 45,000 pages long, “is the largest environmental crime in Sweden in terms of scope and organisation”.

According to an estimate by the newspaper Göteborgs-Posten, at least 200,000 tonnes of waste have allegedly been dumped by the company, though the true amount could potentially be much higher.

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Looking forward to the inevitable SVT documentary/-ies on this.

[–] MuhammadJesusGaySex@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Where does Sweden actually do the recycling? Like do they have their own recycling facilities, or do they ship it to China or somewhere like most countries?

[–] droog_the_droog@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Recently, for instance, at Site Zero, the world's largest recycling center for plastics. Obviously, it depends on the material being recycled.

[–] MuhammadJesusGaySex@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

That’s awesome. As long as they are the ones doing the recycling I have faith it’s being done. Shipping it to China (although I think they stopped taking trash) or India or wherever. I don’t trust that. But in house in Sweden, good on them.