Why does Germany LOVE to Recycle glass?
09. Dec, 2010 
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Save The Earth presents a video about how German Glass Recycling is FANTASTIC!
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Well i for one am glad there is no deposit fee for buying glass. i buy glass everything because i don’t like the chems plastic leaches . I reuse them or throw them into the blue bin WM then recycles . Now when I was in a apartment I threw away a ton because recycling was not offered . Apartments are the biggest offenders .
Germans do a great job in recycling glass but I think this video is a little misleading. Glass that goes into the recycle bins is used in glass making and is not washed and refilled. However, when you buy many bottled products in Germany you pay a hefty deposit fee that is refunded when you bring the bottles back to the store or may be traded for filled bottles for the cost of the product alone. The returned bottles are washed and refilled.
We need a system like this in the U.S.
Doing a little research on waste management in Germany. Did you know they landfilled less than 1% of their waste in 2008.
They pay a deposit of Euro .25c for each bottle (between .1 and 3 litre) and get
that back when it is returned. Not what they are showing in this vid though (?)
Doing a little research on waste management in Germany. Did you know they landfilled less than 1% of their waste in 2008.
They pay a deposit of Euro .25c for each bottle (between .1 and 3 litre) and get
that back when it is returned. Not what they are showing in this vid though (?)
Doing a little research on waste management in Germany. Did you know they landfilled less than 1% of their waste in 2008.
They pay a deposit of Euro .25c for each bottle (between .1 and 3 litre) and get that back when it is returned. Not what they are showing in this vid though (?)
Doing a little research on waste management in Germany. Did you know they landfilled less than 1% of their waste in 2008.
They pay a deposit of Euro .25c for each bottle (between .1 and 3 litre) and get that back when it is returned. Not what they are showing in this vid though (?)
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@maryuriwood07 I feel the same way!!
Ich liebe dich Deutschland!
Te amo Alemania= I love you Germany= Ich liebe dich Deutschland
Greetings from the US
@savetheearthorg I like your video, but what you say is not quit right. First of all the bottles you throw in these containers aren’t used again, like attk177 says. Second the bottles you showed at the store are so called deposit bottles, you didn’t throw them in these containers, you can give them back in every store and get a deposit for them (8 cent). The 3 bottles you throw in the containers, @0:43 where deposit bottles.
@Lintflas I would love to be wrong. Skeptics are funny in that they always are happy to be wrong.
@mthomas1776
Yep, and I love America and I have some wonderful friends there. Of course your philosophy isn’t wrong at all. It’s just different, but that’s not the german or european way.
Did you know that Germany is almost able to supply itself completely with renewable energy? It just takes another 6-10 years and we can turn off all atomic plants and coal power stations. This is not a fantasy, it’s a forward-thinking solution.
@Lintflas
It’s completely irrelevant if Dobbs is an authority or not. He just compared the proven facts, and they make your system look a mess.
Of course Ted Kennedy didn’t go to Germany, because he had enough money to afford the medical treatment in the USA. Ordinary american families have to sell their house to afford it.
@Lintflas I should apologize, I am having fun with you. Meine Frau ist Deutcher aus Koeln. I love Germans, I just know enough economics to know that if you have to subsidize something for it to exist then it wastes resources. This is a lesson that is learned in the first semester of economics. You can believe your religion as long as you want, that is what happens in a free society. However, sooner or later your will realize that it is nothing more than a fantasy.
@Lintflas You clearly don’t understand English if you think Lou Dobbs is an authority.
Ted Kennedy did not go to Germany for Health Care, he went to the best doctors in the world.
@mthomas1776
Or take a look at your horrible health care system. Search for “Lou Dobbs on Healthcare in Germany” to see the facts. He compares the retarded US system witth the german system.
@Lintflas I think your English is a bit bad. I don’t follow the first sentence. Being the world leader in solar energy is just like being 3rd place in Soccer, cute, nice, and totally useless.
Did it ever strike you that you are winning a game that no one else is playing?
@Lintflas I think your English is a bit bad. I don’t follow the first sentence. Being the world leader in solar energy is just like being 3rd place in Soccer, cute, nice, and totally useless.
Did it ever strike you that you are winning a game that no one else is playing?
@mthomas1776
You just screwed yourself. Dream on the US dream of endless debts. Let’s meet again in 10 years and you’ll see who survived. You Americans are completely retarded when it comes to forward-thinking in environment protection.
Germany is world leader in solar/ wind energy and recycling and even your proven wrong comments won’t change our “craziness”
@Lintflas It would be really easy to drop the unemployment to 0% in the US if we had the type of social insurance in Germany, the problem is that GDP would fall by 30%
@Lintflas Thank you. I accept your apology for implying that the US is like a third world country. I agree, that was absurd. It equals the absurdity of your statistics. I have lived in Berlin, you can fudge the numbers and try to get the number lower, but please include the people that are on permanent social insurance before you come back with that weak sauce “google it” crap.
@mthomas1776
Didn’t you read my last comment? Google the facts if you don’t believe me. Of course I understand the statistics. Your arguments are wrong, and I didn’t say those places represent the whole USA.
@Lintflas I don’t think recycling is fun. It is a sick twisted post-modern religion which admits no evidence that it is wrong. Germans were crazy in the dark ages and have not learned much since then. Adam Smith helped transform the Enlightenment thought of the Italians and French into something that Launched Commercial and Industrial society while the Germans were still blaming everything on foreigners living amongst themselves. Get with the 18th century!
@mthomas1776
Do you really believe that we do recycling just for fun? Of course it save a hundred times more energy to wash bottles and reuse them, instead of producing new ones. There’s a bottle deposit of 25 cent on every bottle and every can. This keeps our country tidy, and you get back your money when you bring the bottle to your next supermarket. This system works great for decades and no one complains about it.
@Lintflas It is hard to harm an economy with such high unemployment. You clearly don’t understand your own statistics.
You claim that you have seen places in the US that prove third world status AND you claim that places I have seen in Germany are not representative. I think you have contradicted yourself.
How many people in Germany do you think are receiving support from the state, BTW? As a percentage, 40,000 of 300,000,000 is less than Germany, a country the size of Montana.