Greenmania in Germania

Germans are so environmentally conscious that they have invested in huge systems to help recycle glass bottles. And people dutifully queue up and make sure they get their deposits back.

If they are so green in Germany, then please tell me why it is that they give what could be a nice job for a less-intelligent person to an energy-guzzling machine?

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Green
• environmentalist
• mass-hypocrisy

[charlessmyth]

Bien sûr, PeekyBoo :-) There is the complication that--although not necessarily a part of bottle recycling--the principle of recycling/recovery of resources will become more important, so that we are not embroiled in entangling alliances and/or conflicts over resources, which, to date, we could simply dispose of, as waste. The green-commie agenda is tiresome. However, there are many wrinkles in the whole cloth that is civil society, which comprises more zeroes than heroes, to live with.

[karolska]

I concur. This is found in every supermarket in Denmark. What I find great, however, is that if you don't care to get your money back, you can just press a button and it's automatically donated to a charity like the Red Cross.

[Quaddrator]

Einfach unglaublich!

[NimlotArt]

The Germans are great people. What a brilliant daughter...very bright and helpful. I hope she is drawing and painting...she's very talented.

[PeekyBooo]

They need machines to recycle those deadly fluorescent globes that the green-loony communists pushed on the public.

[PeekyBooo]

The bottles are probably crushed/smashed in the machine.

[olden89c]

The Germans were slow to adopt this system, in all of the Scandinavian countries this has been around for several decades now... I remember them from as far back as the 1980s. In every supermarket, for almost all bottles. The rest go in a special dumpster for recycling.

[ilyasr2]

I saw that in Finland...

[Amiduffer]

Those are pretty common in supermarkets here in the States.

[PeekyBooo]

I'm against the communist side of Green politics and the Global-Warming farce, but recycling a resource is good, especially at the supermarket to save on bills.

Green Politics has in many ways hijacked recycling themes.