Stockholm sees rise in food waste recycling, following new national law

(20 Aug 2024)
SWEDEN FOOD WASTE

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS

RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

LENGTH: 5:50

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stockholm, Sweden – 6 August 2024

1. Stockholm resident Fabian Säll peeling potatoes
2. Close of potato skins
3. Various of potato skins being thrown into ‘food waste’ bag
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Fabian Säll, Stockholm resident:
"I think it’s a good thing, actually, for keeping people accountable for the food that they throw away. And 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. So, I think it’s a good thing."

5. Wide of Säll entering garbage disposal room
6. Various of Säll throwing food waste into food waste bin
7. Close of sign, reading (Swedish): "Food Waste”

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stockholm, Sweden – 13 August 2024

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Stina Hedström, coordinator, Stockholm Vatten Och Avfall:
"As of the first of January, this year, 2024, it became mandatory for the whole country to sort out the food waste and in some regions in Sweden it has been mandatory for decades to sort out the food waste, but now, it’s also here in Stockholm. Although we have not reached the goal yet, we’re heading towards it."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stockholm, Sweden – 31 July 2024

9. Wide of tractor going into building where food waste is collected
10. Close of sign, reading: "Biokraft"
11. Mid of tractor carrying food waste
12. Mid of food waste being dumped into mixer
13. Various of food waste being mixed with water
14. Wide of Chasib Hamid, recycling protection manager, Biokraft, checking machine that sorts garbage from food waste
15. Close of waste that cannot be recycled being taken away
16. Various of waste that cannot be recycled being thrown away
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Chasib Hamid, recycling protection manager, Biokraft:
"If we talk about the process of food waste here at the site, it’s about… around 30 percent is the waste of the food waste. So, that’s still a high percentage.”

18. Wide of tanks that heat up food waste and convert into biogas
19. Tilt down of tank that heats up food waste to 70 degrees
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Oerjan Bohinen, process engineer, Biokraft:
"We have some bacteria that is breaking down the waste and releasing the biogases from it."

21. Wide of site that contains biogases
22. Wide of machine that liquifies biogas
23. Wide of container where all liquified biofuel is stored

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stockholm, Sweden – 13 August 2024

24. SOUNDBITE (English) Stina Hedström, coordinator, Stockholm Vatten Och Avfall:
"So, if you sort out the food waste, it can be biogas and bio-fertilizer, and these products will help us reduce CO2 emissions and other greenhouse gases. And by using bio-fertilizer, for example, we don’t have to use finite resources, such as phosphorus."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stockholm, Sweden – 31 January 2024

25. Wide of Bohinen coming out from fertilizer storage area
26. Close of Bohinen holding fertilizer made from food waste
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Oerjan Bohinen, process engineer, Biocraft:
"Compressed biofuel, some of it is just sent to our little gas station that is just behind me here, where all the trucks that provide us with food waste every day, they come and fuel. And a lot of other compressed gas is sent around to gas stations here locally in the Stockholm area."

28. Various of car being refueled with biofuel produced at the plant

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stockholm, Sweden – 13 August 2024

29. SOUNDBITE (English) Stina Hedström, coordinator, Stockholm Vatten Och Avfall:

STORYLINE:
LEADIN:

Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/

You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/b440c147ee8c4144a7177bdba06b5102

Author: AP Archive
Go to Source

News post in August 25, 2024, 12:04 pm.

Visit Our Sponsor’s:
News Post In – News

Renegade_Rcih
Greetings I'm Renegade Rich, I own lots of websites and domain names. one of my favorite news type of sites are news sites. So I own lots of news sites and news domain names. My lates is https://news.post.in 😁