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In Germany, garbage is considered a serious issue. There are various levels and ways of mandatory recycling that need to be implemented by everyone, including p
by madez 9y ago
In Germany, garbage is considered a serious issue. There are various levels and ways of mandatory recycling that need to be implemented by everyone, including private households. For example, depending on the city, paper, "Gelber Sack", organic material, and everything else besides special disposables like for example batteries must be seperated, and compliance may be checked, and fines may be handed out in case of violation. Some people moving to Germany are surprised about how serious it is.
This explains why the garbage was checked, and why it was possible to track down the source.
- milkytron 9y agoUnited Nations document on German waste management. http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/dsd_aofw_ni/ni_pdfs/NationalReports/germany/waste.pdf http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/dsd_aofw_ni/ni_pdfs/NationalReport...
- bamboozled 9y agoIt's actually refreshing to know this is happening somewhere, thanks for sharing.
- nvdk 9y agoThis is pretty standard in Western Europe, it's about the same in Belgium, the Netherlands and France at least
- piva00 9y agoThe same here in Sweden too.
- yAnonymous 9y agoAbout half of the recyclable garbage is still burned along with the regular garbage, because it burns better. Profit is, after all, more important than the environment. The garbage companies in Germany make somewhere between 50 and 100 billion per year.
- kretor 9y agoThe garbage companies are burning that stuff because nobody wants to buy it from them. Because often making something by way of recycling uses more resources than the alternative.