LINKOPING, Sweden — In a cavernous room filled with garbage, a giant mechanical claw reaches down and grabs 5 tons of trash. As a technician in a control room maneuvers the spiderlike crane, the claw ...

Evert year, millions of metric tons of trash from Norway, the U.K. and Italy end up heating or providing electricity to Swedish homes.

For most countries, running out of garbage sounds like a fantasy. For Sweden, it’s reality, a surprising outcome that shows a nation fully committed to sustainability. Over the years, Sweden has built ...

STOCKHOLM — On a chilly autumn morning in the Norra Djurgården district, a woman holding a small garbage bag hustled out of her apartment toward a trio of nondescript metal bins next to her building, ...

Prosecutors want a six-year sentence for Bella Nilsson, former head of Swedish garbage disposal company Think Pink, who is charged with illegal toxic waste dumping ...

Sweden imports trash from other countries because it does not have enough to fuel its waste-to-energy plants that produce electricity and heating. Sweden imports millions of metric tons of trash from ...