Putting food waste in the bin felt wrong until I learned where it went

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Putting food waste in the bin felt wrong until I learned where it went

Allerton Waste Recovery Park

A.P.S. (***)/Alamy

A few years ago, I spent an interesting if pungent day visiting two of Europe’s most advanced waste processing facilities, a state-of-the-art rubbish dump near Espoo in Finland and a power station in nearby Vantaa. Together, they are playing a pivotal role in greater Helsinki’s push towards a circular economy, ensuring that every scrap of the city’s municipal waste is either recycled or turned into energy or heat, so nothing is sent to landfill. I remember thinking, “How brilliant, I wish we could do that”.

It turns out we in the *** can,…

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