Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sweden imports millions of metric tons of trash from other countries per year, using the garbage to fuel its waste-to-energy ...

Landfills are responsible for the release of toxins and harmful substances into the atmosphere. More than half of the world's ...

Sweden, a global leader in sustainability and renewable energy, achieved an incredible milestone in 2016: it ran out of household waste. With less than 1% of domestic garbage ending up in landfills ...

LINKOPING, Sweden — In a cavernous room filled with garbage, a giant mechanical claw reaches down and grabs 5 tons of trash. As a technician in a control room maneuvers the spiderlike crane, the claw ...

What makes the world's most effective waste strategies work, and why are so many countries still getting it wrong?

STOCKHOLM — On a chilly autumn morning in the Norra Djurgården district, a woman holding a small garbage bag hustled out of her apartment toward a trio of nondescript metal bins next to her building, ...