In Norway you get a small amount of money for recycling bottles/cans. They're often collected by poor people, homeless etc. A lot of our trash cans has these holders around them so people don't have to search through the trash to collect them
Naw, that's awesome, we don't have the holders in Germany but we also do have the "Pfand" system which gives like 25cents for cans and plastic bottles and 8 for glass and hard plastic
Might also add that a lot of times people will just place them on the ring you can see around the trash can if there's no holders, or on top of the can if it's a different design.
My friends and I were drinking in a park in Germany, with a little fire going. My friends where American. Now we had 2 cases of beer, at 24 bottles a case thats 48 cases and at at a value of 25 cents a bottle your talking 12 euros, its enough to get a simple meal. A homeless man came up to us and asked us if we wouldn't mind could he take the bottles when we were done.
I told him he could help us finish he beer and after we are done take the bottles and turn them in himself. He happily agreed at the chance of having a couple beers and earning 12 euros.
So he sat down with us and thats how I ended up being a translator between a homeless man in Germany and my two American friends at 2 AM in a park.
KnownUser7353 on August 16th, 2019 at 08:54 UTC »
Naw, that's awesome, we don't have the holders in Germany but we also do have the "Pfand" system which gives like 25cents for cans and plastic bottles and 8 for glass and hard plastic
idunnomysex on August 16th, 2019 at 08:59 UTC »
Might also add that a lot of times people will just place them on the ring you can see around the trash can if there's no holders, or on top of the can if it's a different design.
sting2018 on August 16th, 2019 at 11:04 UTC »
My friends and I were drinking in a park in Germany, with a little fire going. My friends where American. Now we had 2 cases of beer, at 24 bottles a case thats 48 cases and at at a value of 25 cents a bottle your talking 12 euros, its enough to get a simple meal. A homeless man came up to us and asked us if we wouldn't mind could he take the bottles when we were done.
I told him he could help us finish he beer and after we are done take the bottles and turn them in himself. He happily agreed at the chance of having a couple beers and earning 12 euros.
So he sat down with us and thats how I ended up being a translator between a homeless man in Germany and my two American friends at 2 AM in a park.