Berlin's Approach to Recycling: Why Not in NYC?
When you’re walking around Berlin, you can’t help but notice the clusters of large recycling bins that dot the city. It got us wondering why New York doesn’t do something similar. It would certainly be simpler and, we’d think, more effective than the current confusing curb-side system. Anyone know the reason?
When you’re walking around Berlin, you can’t help but notice the clusters of large recycling bins that dot the city. It got us wondering why New York doesn’t do something similar. It would certainly be simpler and, we’d think, more effective than the current confusing curb-side system. Anyone know the reason?
Any art school dropout knows about Lascaux and Altamira, these cavemen werent poor kids illegally writing on cave walls in protest, I think you know that. The modern form of Grafitti which was invented and developed directly out of the slums of New York is what we are talking about, the style that is being copied all over Europe.
The same way America is to blame for copying from the European rennaisance, we just chose something better to copy.
Graffiti an American export? People have been drawing on walls since the beginning of human civilization.
As for the bins, it would be awfully nice if NYC could make a system like this work, realistically and honestly. If only citizens and bureaucrats alike would be to be willing to do their parts.
See that big open space they’re sitting in?
WE DON’T HAVE ANY OF THAT!
veto.
CONFUSING CURB-SIDE SYSTEM? I manage just fine.
They had similar “igloos” in Paris, France. But they got rid of them during the terrorist attacks (the ones a year or two before 9/11) for fear that bombs would be placed inside the ones full of glass bottles and be used as giant bombs. It was a pity. I remember hearing the glass bottles being inserted by people, and feeling like we were all pitching in. What was great was you didn’t have to store all your recyclables in your home, you just went downstairs and put them in the big ball (I think we called them “boules”).
Gee, Brownstoner gets a clue! You should travel more often and share your brilliant observations with the idiots back home who read your blog. Hmmm…
They have these in New Jersey, but for Prom Babies.
“Berlin has graffiti everywhere.”
Another great American export.