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Which country imports waste for recycling plants?

In Sweden, only 4% of garbage is buried in the ground, everything else is recycled. The government's waste burning energy program has been so effective that in recent years Sweden has been importing 80 tons of waste from other countries a year, most of it from Norway. Moreover, the Norwegians themselves pay for the removal of this waste, the Swedes receive electricity, and the remaining ashes with a high content of toxins and heavy metals are sent back to Norway for burial.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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Who are the otters?

Otters belong to another family of the animal world - to mustelids. Stoats, skunks and badgers belong to the same family. They all have short legs, thick fur, and sharp, needle-like teeth. These animals are predators. Otters are very fond of water and their webbed feet, their fluffy, bushy tails and fine fur help them a lot in their life in the water. There are two varieties of otters in North America: the freshwater otter and the saltwater otter. The freshwater otter lives in rivers and lakes all the way between Mexico and Alaska. She has thick dark brown fur. This otter is a very restless animal and constantly roams.

For example, the male sometimes changes habitat during the winter in a range of fifty to sixty miles. This is a very shy animal, and it is extremely rare to see it. Otters usually make their home in a hole dug in the bank of a stream or lake. The hole leads to a cave lined with leaves. Here, at the end of winter or at the beginning of spring, offspring are born, usually two or three cubs in one litter.

Before the cubs learn to swim on their own, the mother sometimes carries them on her back through the water. But young people learn to swim very quickly. Parents teach kids to dive and fish - their main food. Soon they can stay under water for four whole minutes.

The sea otter is found on the west coast of North America, from California to Alaska, and in other northern waters. Sea otters are longer and heavier than freshwater otters. They have thick dark brown fur with grey. They have a white mustache, which is why they are called "sea grandfathers" in America. When sea otters have nowhere to go, they often swim on their backs, using their stomachs as tables for eating crabs, sea urchins, clams and other marine animals.

Previously, because of their precious fur, sea otters were hunted intensely and as a result were almost completely exterminated. Now they are protected by an international treaty banning fishing on them, and their numbers are quickly recovering.

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