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[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/sweden-s-recycling...

EDIT: Fixed wording and added source. Sweden is buying other countries' trash, not selling theirs.

That line is more false than true. For the most part they are not recycling their trash, they are incinerating it.

Additionally Sweden is tiny. Trash there is brought to local recycling centers with 6 to 8 or more different bins, and people are expected to sort their trash.

How would you do that in the US? Trucks with 8 compartments? Where would you even keep that many different trash cans? The US is very large, you can't expect people to transport their recycling.

It is common in rural settings in the US for people to transport, themselves, both their trash and their recycling to a central drop off point. So there are lots of US residents that do exactly this periodically.

Curbside pickup is typically a system found in more urban portions of the US, but it is far from ubiquitous across the entirety of the US.

Edit: Adding this URL: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.0802698,-82.5981852,107m/dat...

This is a google satellite image of the local, central, trash drop off point in a very rural portion of southern Virginia.

Why on earth not? The majority used to haul their own garbage to the town dump a just few decades ago (and some still do in smaller towns). Ubiquity of curbside pickup is relatively new -- doubly so for recycling. And recyclables are a heck of a lot more pleasant to carry in the car than rotting kitchen scraps.

Or the dump is far enough away to make transporting recycling counterproductive?

My impression has been that you can't live in the US without a car anyway. So this won't be any new requirements.

Actually a lot of homes now have these bins: http://blogg.tyrens.se/avfallsblogg/files/2017/10/Fyrfackska...

Recycling is simply made very convienient. I never transport my trash more than 5 meters. There's even a box for light bulbs and batteries.

Those bins looks pretty nice, although the balance between the comportments seems odd. (The paper compartment (2 of them?) is too large, as is the white one the right - is that for "other"?)

Not sure I'd be able to get that down my stairs though.

> I never transport my trash more than 5 meters.

How is it picked up? Curbside? Curious what kind of truck they use.

Also, do you keep that in your house? Do you go outside in the winter for each item? Or do you stage the trash in the house, and sort it later?

Apartments often have a similar setup but with one large bin per category in the basement. There is also another system where you are supplied with color coded garbage bags for each type of waste that you then throw in the same bin.

Actually, they are doing both. They have an incredibly high recycling rate, what is left they largely burn. Over time they have increased their recycling to the point that they have large spare capacity. Which is why they now import a comparable amount to what they burn.

Really it's remarkable.

Isn't this exactly the problem? Sweden isn't taking care of its own trash, but instead selling it to China, just like the US and many other countries?

The disappearance of new ventures can be attributed in some way to this new way of thinking. I've been told that college anxiety didn't exist 20 years ago -- maybe it's time to go back to those days. High school, in my mind, is a time to experiment and find what actually interests you: not to manifest into a homework bot that's dominated by stress.

This isn't always the case, though. The 25-year-old with life experience and a past of experimentation still exists, it's just not the norm anymore.

This scares me, though. I'm starting to realize that is not what it's about. It's about making a difference. Sure, you can indeed make a difference doing what you and I have described. A company needs people like that. But I always wonder, could I have made an even bigger difference doing something else? I'm not even talking about my education. I've even thought about this for sports.

For instance, I grew up playing baseball religiously because I had already invested a lot of my time with it. I didn't want to adhere to anything else for the fear of wasting my time. Here I am, years later, realizing I would've been an even better tennis player had I actually been open to trying something that would've given me more success, but potentially been less safe (starting a new sport in the middle of being so devoted to one already). Here I am, hitting with racquet on every volley, wishing that I had bought into the sport earlier because I know I could've been better at it than I was baseball.

You will fail. Embarrass yourself. 'Let down' family and friends. But you'll know those that really care about you.

And you'll find out what you're made of. Oh, and have some good stories along the way.

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”

As the parent of a HS senior in the fall, I long for those old days (like it was when I was in HS). It's insane what we put kids through. Unintended side effects are a real thing, and they are very, very hard to know in advance.

What if we built more housing? Brought down the cost of rent.

Not to mention the criminal price of healthcare and education.

Many monumental breakthroughs were accomplished by disregarding permission, and rebellious attributes are attributed to people like Stephen Wolfram[0] and Albert Einstein. The MIT Media Lab even has an award for disobedience [1].

This mindset, though, can manifest into an unhealthy obsession with breaking the rules. An uncontrolled expectation to "ask forgiveness" can lead to murky moral territories. Where do you draw the line between accepting rebelliousness and enforcing the law?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram#Education_and_...

[1] https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/disobedience-award/

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

That isn't saying that Snapchat has removed the potential of spreading explicit content. As someone mentioned in another comment, screenshotting the snap circumvents the system. It's also just as easy to take a photo of the screen with another device -- both an untraceable and permanent record of the photo.

As a whole, Snapchat has had a net positive effect for people my age. I can attest that teenagers make unwise decisions now and again, and Snapchat has helped in that those rash decisions are less likely to bite us in the future. While I don't have the data to back up the claim that hundreds of thousands of kids have been protected due to Snapchat's impermanence, I certainly wouldn't be surprised if it was true. It's the most popular social network in my demographic for a reason -- it oozes the ephemeral teenage spirit.