The problem is known by the acronym SWEDOW. 印尼海啸之后，有4000吨捐助的药品抵达当地，大大超出了当地的需求量。 这些药品中的大多数要么不是灾区当时需要的，要么是用外语标注使用说明的，要么就是快过期的。 为了销毁这些药品，当地垃圾焚化炉甚至都超负荷运转。

The latest SWEDOW dump came in the form of a massive donation from the National Football League to the Christian relief group World Vision. After the Green Bay Packers won the Super Bowl, the NFL ...

I’ve just come across ‘SWEDOW’, a recently created acronym relevant to those fundraisers who deal with donated goods. It stands for ‘Stuff we don’t want’, as in inappropriate or unwanted donated items ...

In its November issue the magazine details examples of “Swedow” (stuff we don’t want), such as the $2-billion plus U.S. food-aid program, which in 2002 sent millions of Pop Tarts to Afghanistan, and ...