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_Published 2024-08-21. For decades, in some areas of Sweden, it has been mandatory for residents to recycle their food waste. A new law makes the practice compulsory country-wide to lower the country’s per capita food waste by 20 percent by 2025._


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## Transcript

I think it's a good thing, actually for keeping people accountable for the food that they throw away. Then also, maybe if you make a law out of it, you can make people think a bit differently about how much food they waste. In some regions in Sweden, it has been mandatory for decades to start out the food waste, but now as of 1 January this year, 2024, it became mandatory for the whole country. Compressed biofuel. Some of it is just sent to our little gas station that is just behind here. And a lot of the other compressed gas is sent around to gas stations here locally in the Stockholm area. So if you sort out the food waste, it can be biogas and bio fertilizer, and these products will help us reduce the CO two emissions and other greenhouse gases.

And by using biofertilizer, for example, we don't have to use finite resources such as phosphorus.

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