Let this be a lesson to you, American voters: when you live in a highly developed ultra modern welfare state like Sweden, with excellent healthcare and many other public benefits, the system is secretly so unstable and broken that the entire country is desperately trying to import trash.

Want to know why you should recycle? Not to ensure clean water and clean air. Not to save the rainforest. Not to help cute little critically endangered animals. The answer you're looking for is guilt. Guilt and shame. And this trash can makes that all possible.

Sure, you could just throw your trash away. But then how would you let all of that pent up aggression out? Not in a healthy way, I bet. A healthy way like beating up a bag full of trash. The...