Germany has this recycling program. It's actually quite brilliant if you think about it. When you buy a drink, they charge you around 20 cents to use the bottle. When you are done with the drink if you return your bottle to the counter, you get that 20 cents back.iF you don't, well then you just threw 20 cents away. It's clever. The only problem I have found: everywhere you go there are people digging through trashcans and/or harassing people holding empty bottles. It reminds me all too much of the dragrats, bar the terrible stench, in Austin.
One other note... The trashcans here are complicated. There are like 4 bins at one trash area and you have to place your trash in the proper bin (paper in the paper bin, etc...). It makes throwing things away a little more complicated and I find myself hoarding my trash so that I can avoid the issue altogether.
Well now you know...
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