A City That Turns Garbage Into Energy Copes With a Shortage (Published 2013)

Trash piled nine yards high is converted to heat and electricity at a waste-to-energy incinerator in Oslo.Credit...Brian Cliff Olguin for The New York Times OSLO — This is a city that imports garbage. Some comes from England, some from Ireland. Some is from neighboring Sweden. It even has designs on the American market. “I’d like to take some from the United States,” said Pal Mikkelsen, in his off

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NorwayのOsloは、ゴミを燃やした熱を都市や学校の暖房に使っている。しかし、ゴミ不足のために、周辺国からゴミを輸入することに。北欧諸国は、年間1.5億トンのゴミしか排出しないが、焼却施設は7億トン以上の処理能力が