Name: 最もリサイクルされている国トップ10 (Top 10 Countries That Recycle The Most)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:03:59.000Z
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These are the 10 countries with the important
distinction of having the highest rates of

Iceland keeps 45% of its waste out of landfills.

The country’s extremely small 332,000 population
helps, as does Sweden, who takes in and recycles

The Italians have impressively doubled their
recycling rate in the last decade, reversing

Food waste in Milan is collected and fed into
anaerobic digesters, which generates electricity

to power a plastic reprocessing plant located
on the same site.

Luxembourg, like number 10 Iceland, has less
than a million people.

Glass bottles can be returned to the shop
where they were purchased in exchange for

a fee--similar to community recycling centers
here in the States.

Sweden prevents 99% of its household waste
from reaching landfills by incinerating more

than 2 million tons of it to generate heat
and electricity.

The Swedes take pride in having reduced their
heavy metal emissions by 99% since 1985.

The Dutch approach to recycling is called
Lansinks Ladder, based on the simple approach

of creating as little waste as possible, but
recovering and reusing the valuable materials

The Swiss have extensive rules regulating
recycling and waste disposal and operate on

the simple, but beautiful Polluter Principle,
which states: the party that produces the

pollution is responsible for paying for the
damage done to the natural environment.

Belgium is the most efficient country in Europe,
generating just 197 kilos of waste per person,

only about 2% of which ends up in landfills.

Austria has easily exceeded the European Union
goal of a 50% recycling rate by the year 2020.

The Waste Management Act helped its citizens
understand the exact ways they should be recycling.

With half of Korea’s 25 million people living
in its capital, Seoul, the world’s second

largest city, it makes sense for it to be
so good at recycling.

It simply doesn’t have the space not to
be.

Starting in the mid-80’s the Koreans were
an early adopter of the three ‘Rs’ standard:

And with 82 millions citizens, the most on
this list, the Germans bring a whole new level

of efficiency to the quest for a zero waste
future.

Germany’s Green Dot initiative has put businesses
on a diet: the more packaging there is, the

more that manufacturer or retailer has to
pay in fees.

By embracing the best practices that are successful
in each of these countries, every country

in the world can drastically cut down on its
waste.

Many of the world’s biggest producers and
consumers have a lot of work to do on this

But if populated countries like Germany, South
Korea, and Italy can do it, so can nations

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