Roughly half of all the waste we produce in Switzerland is recycled; the other half gets burned to produce heat and electricity. Tossing combustible waste into a landfill has been illegal in Switzerland since 2000, and the country has 29 waste-to-energy plants that process hundreds of tons of waste every day. Whether it’s a Züri-Sack picked up on garbage day, off-cuts from a textile factory, or plastic film peeled off cardboard at a recycling center, it ends up in a combustion chamber at one of these plants.
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