Ideas
Swedish ideas that quietly made life better.
Pant: how Sweden gets its cans and bottles back
Every trip to the supermarket in Sweden includes a familiar ritual of feeding empty cans into reverse vending machines to keep materials in circulation.
The three-point seatbelt, a Swedish idea shared with everyone
When Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin designed the modern three-point seatbelt in 1959, his employer chose to give the life-saving design away to the entire world.
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Långban in Värmland joins a list of the world's 100 key geological sites
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