Listen up, folks, I’ve think we have reached peak Sweden.

H&M, or Hennes & Mauritz AB if you want to sound fancy, make a hell of a lot of clothes. The retail chain was founded in the Swedish city of Västerås back in 1947, and has since become a global powerhouse.

Västerås also happens to be where a heat and power station is located, a station which has decided to burn discarded clothing from H&M.

More here from Bloomberg:

[The power station] is converting from oil- and coal-fired generation to become a fossil fuel-free facility by 2020. That means burning recycled wood and trash, including clothes H&M can’t sell.

“For us it’s a burnable material,” said Jens Neren, head of fuel supplies at Malarenergi AB, a utility which owns and operates the 54-year-old plant about 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Stockholm. “Our goal is to use only renewable and recycled fuels”…

“H&M does not burn any clothes that are safe to use,” Johanna Dahl, head of communications for H&M in Sweden, said by email. “However it is our legal obligation to make sure that clothes that contain mold or do not comply with our strict restriction on chemicals are destroyed”…

The Vasteras plant burned about 15 tons of discarded clothes from H&M so far in 2017, compared with about 400,000 tons of trash, Neren said.

Sweden as a whole is doing a pretty decent job of generating power from trash:

If only you could generate power from actual trash-talking, because then Eskom might be financially viable.

[source:bloomberg]