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?
It does not look like these bins are very large. The recycling from my apartment building alone would require about six of these.
The graffiti is a turn-off.
very ugly recycling igloos… something else for the arrested development crowd to cover with graffiti…
can just imagine what would eventually be tossed into those things here in NY… can we pass on this idea? 🙂
huh? 10.45AM
I live in Germany and have never heard about this in my life.
I think the short story is:
Germany passed a law stating that a business that creates something that could become trash is responsible for collecting it in the end.
Business not wanting to be involved in waste management hired a company to do it for them, and place a green dot on thier products to tell consumers to place the trash into the appropriate collection bins managed by the waste company
the cost of this service is passed onto consumers, estimated at $2.5 billion per year (this is in addition to regular recycling program costs)
look up German take-back law
You think this is attractive? ugh.
And – most NYers can’t even be bothered to put litter in trash can…they prefer the curb.
….are you crazy?…..nobody would walk more than a block to recycle….you’d have to have two of these on every corner…..
I would hate to have to look at these at all times. Having lived in Europe for a long time, I appreciate the fact that the curb-side recicling allows for a period in which neither garbage nor containers like these are visible on the sidewalks. In addition – these stink in hot weather. Bad idea if you ask me…
Well, how long has the city been promising street lavotories? I actually used the one near City Hall during it’s brief exsistence and it was not unpleasant.
Certainly public recycling should be an additional option to the current system.
that probably put a lot of hard working people out of work. those that depend on recycling to make money.
instead of going to pickup cans they would be rolling on welfare.