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Location : Wasted Space Job/hobbies : Cayman Islands Actuary
| Subject: Unhinged Germany importing more garbage Wed Oct 21, 2015 2:47 am | |
| Each day, trucks roll into this city filled with the latest hot import from the streets of Manchester, England: garbage.
The destination is a power plant that makes a business of turning trash into electricity, or as it touts in a brochure, “spinning straw into gold.” The straw in this case is large, pillowy blobs of rubbish, neatly wrapped in plastic.
Recycling and trash bins
“Like a marshmallow,” beams Rolf Oesterhoff, manager of the MHKW Rothensee waste-to-energy plant.
A waste not, want not attitude mixed with a national zeal for recycling has led to an awkward problem for Germany: It isn’t producing enough of its own trash.
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/germans-burning-more-garbage-020800609.html |
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