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- One of my very early videos, "We have no Garbage Day in Amsterdam", just hit one million views this week. Why was this video so popular? And what else can be said about garbage collection in Amsterdam?
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Suburbanites: "these garbages are dangerous because kids will climb into them"
Also suburbanites: build wide streets without sidewalks in residential areas where cars speed at 60km/h
I know right?! When I heard that I thought, "of course they said that".
My neighbor literally has an exposed electrical wire in a fish pond
Whch is funnny when kid can do the same in an American suburb seriously also add the those people in cars will go a little faster than the speed limit because they feel they can
@@FlagstaffslowTV they’re stuck in a bubble basically
@@USSAnimeNCC- It is a very thick bubble made of something I haven't found out how to pierce!
All children rush to the windows to watch the garbage truck. We are all still those children at heart. You provided exotic garbage truck material to watch. That just made us all even bigger kids at heart.
Who knew there was a market for artisanal garbage videos?
ho boy have you seen the penguinz0 Garbage Truck Hunts? Charlie had a bit of a phase there and they caught some pristine specimen in the wild. he even made a tier list
@@Vespuchian there are channels of literally just that. Both satisfying garbage truck videos and garbage man work vlogs
True that. Sad thing with moving recently: I can’t see the garbage truck clearly from my new apparment.
I guarantee I would watch trash pickup for at least a solid few weeks if we had magical underground trash bunker pickup.
It’s kinda weird that people can’t understand this, it’s not all that different from basically any apartment complex ever that has a communal dumpster…
@@ligametis he did mention there are other pests to worry about, not raccoons. one other commenter mentioned rats and mice and seagulls
@@ligametis well i don't really have experience with either, my trash is mostly left alone. i was just saying he didn't necessarily say racoons are a big problem in the netherlands lol
same, I've lived in lots of places and I definitely prefer the communal dumpster over having to remember which day is garbage day.
When I lived in college dorms, we even had multiple trash chutes near the stairs and elevators so people could take their trash out on their way out in the morning. It was so nice.
@@kyupin1075 Don't forget flying rats (pigeons)
"Even the most trivial of tasks, like buying a bag of milk"
oh you shit disturber you
The best way to buy milk!
@@NotJustBikes this is the only thing you've said that I adamantly disagree with. Ontario is a backwards place 😤.
I didn't even he said that until I read your comment because of course bag of milk.
Genuine question; Isn't it impossible to set a bag down while open without it just deflating and spilling everywhere? Or do you have to replace the cap every single time you set it down?
@@specialopsdave you cut a hole in the corner of the bag and slap it in a pitcher
I had proposed this Idea to my Architecture class for urban planning and my instructor scoffed at this idea. One of the other classmates shared this video and my theory was validated. My instructor took back what she said and agreed with my original idea.
I love how you aren't afraid to tell people they're stupid. It gives me hope for humanity.
Some people say I'm too arrogant in my videos. I tell them to go watch something else. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It is quite refreshing actually
@@coastaku1954 those types have never employed obviously bad faith arguments right out of the gate, and they totally don't deserve any ire you get... r/sarcasm.
@@coastaku1954 It doesn't sound alright (at least to me) if you really feel like shit because of such things, maybe CBT could help
@@coastaku1954 cognitive behavioural therapy
If communal garbage bins are communist, so are public roads lmao wtf.
To deflect Americans calling public goods communist, all you have to do is dress it up as "military". A nationwide network of highways that anyone can drive on free of charge? For national defense to move troops and tanks around. If you call this system "Tactical waste elimination ops", Congress will add $5 billion in funding just for fun no question asked.
And so is curbside garbage collection. If those people had any consistency they'd insist on personally driving their own garbage to the dump.
And this is why they need adopt-a-highway schemes in the U S of A... (and get lousy (in other words: Belgian) roads in the process...)
No, those are fascist.
@@HydratedBeans Considering the cost of infrastructure is exceptionally high in suburbia (according to Not Just Bikes), that could actually be a good idea in the US. Would incentivise people to live in walkable neighborhoods.
We don't have trash pandas here in Amsterdam yes, but we do have are rats and mice. Legions of the damn critters.
I think that's also a big reason why there was a big push for these containers.
Here in The Hague it was also the seagulls that would pick open the bin bags on garbage day
don't forget the pigeons and seagulls
@@quintvandijk533 those seagulls are terrifying. Much bigger and meaner than the ones here in Utrecht. You really didn't want to come in between a seagull and it's garbage bag in cities close to the sea like The Hague. Good thing you guys have underground containers now.
@@rvdb7363 you mean the flying rats.
@@SunAlucard here in Utrecht "vliegende rat" is only used for pigeons. Specifically for the 'city pigeon' that is often missing 2 or 3 toes and is always looking for some fries or other unhealthy food some tourist dropped.
Meanwhile, here in Houston, we have an entire stretch of 10-mile stroad where the county is building a median for the express purpose of 'stopping drivers from killing each other' because fatal crashes have become so darn common.
Reminds me of the NJB video about infrastructure safety. During the 2020 lockdown, miles driven dropped significantly but death rates rose. Which NJB pointed out is not only indicative of infrastructure safety, but also how congested US roads are.
@@NLTops Well, here's the sad truth locally. While miles driven decreased, road rage SKYROCKETED. At least once or twice a week, there's a news report on someone being shot locally in a road rage incident. Plus, the road rage is leading to more and more aggressive driving. I personally have witnessed multiple drivers get so enraged at seeing people going 'too slow' for them (mind you, drivers are already going 20-25 mph over the limit just to keep up with traffic flow), that they go into the yellow lined turning lane (where the median will be eventually) and just floor it.
I used to live in Houston (Kingwood) but now live in the Netherlands. They like those very wide straight roads there, I have seen statistics that they are in fact twice more dangerous than the narrow curvy roads here as the wide straight roads increase driver complacency and they become more distracted.
I still remember when I left in 1992 they were talking about HSR between Dallas-San Antonio - Houston...they are still talking about it, here they completed the HSR line two years after first proposed late 90's. A 2 hour HSR train to Paris sure beats a 5 hour drive and safety wise the HSR is so much safer, it is TGV based and they have not had a fatal passenger death in 40 years of service. When I take my kids on vacation HSR is quite nice, safety and speed in one and we arrive we are all refreshed and the cost is no more than the fuel you would spend on driving. I do not own a car so I could retire before 50 as most ppl spend as much on vehicles (+taxes,fuel, insurance,etc) as their home (best investment) . I learned this fact in micro economics at UT-Austin so when I graduated I immediately took a job offer in the Netherlands before they even finished their sentence and have loevd their cycle infra, the best in world.
-a Dane (second best cycle infra)
It would make more sense to add bike lanes in the middle. Am I the only one that watches these videos for city skylines ideas and to actually think about the type of city I would want to live in.
@@KRYMauL Bike lanes in the middle are a bad idea because bikes would have to cross 1-3 lanes of traffic to get to and from the cycle track.
Edit: I guess Washington DC did it successfully, but I can't see it becoming widespread.
All I know is NYC needs to start doing this everywhere. It’ll get rid of the stink & the juices & hopefully cut down the rat population lol. I appreciate this channel cus it shows us the future we COULD be living in in the US
They would need to be like five feet apart New York City is too tall( we have mainly apartment buildings) our population density would fill up the bins way too fast( what I mean by this is the population of New York City 8.8 mil alone is slightly higher than half of the entire population of the Netherlands 14.8 mil)
@Hopeful Interpretation 3 out of 4 are for recycling.
Fair warning: If you implement this, the rat problem wil at first appear to become worse as the resident rats will start scavenging everywhere looking for food.
Would probably cut down the number of staff needed though, and we know the garbage mob/union wont let that happen.
@@GARBO96 Lots of rats in Amsterdam
I've recently seen more and more people recommending your videos on Reddit. Usually with the tag line "okay so I know city planning might sound boring, but watch this dude's video it's really interesting!"
Yeah, reddit seems to like my channel; I see my videos being linked to quite often, and reddit is the most popular external source of views (though still less than 2% of traffic to the channel, according to TH-cam analytics).
That’s actually how I found this channel, from a post on r/FuckCars
@@kiwipomegranate Sounds kinky
@@leandrog2785 This reminds me of a CGI dragon fucking a toy car.
@@leandrog2785 I guess you could call them exhausted.
4:45 "Winter is the favorite Canadian excuse for bad city design"
Also applies to Russia heavily. Any modern urban solution is always opposed by someone saying "it wouldn't work here/the climate is different/the thugs will break it" and other nonsense. It's almost like excuses are the universal language of simple laziness and lack of care for the urban environment.
Yeah if there's one thing I've learned about cities it's that every single one has a long list of excuses for inaction.
@@NotJustBikes usually because the real reason is "I own a tyre/car/asphalt /oil etc etc" company, or "the people that own these things are paying me a considerable amount to keep the city car dependent"
Even about solutions proved to be working good in Canada some people still say that shit. Laziness and stubbornness.
@@abijo5052 In Russia more likely "My 12 years old child owns tyre/car/asphalt/oil/etc company"
On a more subtle note: as someone who walks a lot in a mostly-car city, I could totally pick up a few things and a few things there, but there's a social (& often explicitly stated) ban on bringing a bag wth things already in it into a big box store. I'm supposed to have left purchases made elsewhere in the car that I was supposed to have driven there.
(& If I'm not spending hundreds a month on a car, then I must be poor & a shoplifter, of course).
Yeah that's a good point: many big box stores won't let you come in with a bag. I actually haven't thought of how much of a problem that would be for people walking in suburbia.
Saturn/MediaMarkt tried that at first in the Netherlands. They wanted you to put your bag in an unguarded locker at the entrance with a clear sign they wouldn't take any responsibility for it. Obviously nobody would enter. Didn't last long.
Even if you drive a car, in many cities unless you want your windows bashed in and everything taken out of your car anyways, you still have to go back home if you buy anything nice that's large. There are some cities in North America that are so bad even grocery bags are an incitement to break your car window.
Very much this.
Recently, as a cyclist entering a big box store with my pannier, I was asked to surrender it at the customer service desk; to collect it once my I'd finished shopping.
I rightly pointed out that the woman in front of me carried in a purse with zero scrutiny. I also pointed out that a 2nd woman behind me was about to be allowed to do the same. The first woman's purse was easily 3X the capacity of my pannier.
I questioned the logic of the policy trying to be enforced. I received an 'education' into bag types; effectively, anything other than a women's purse led to suspicion and was required to be left behind the service counter as per store policy.
I asked why purses were exempt. I was further educated that denying purses was discriminatory against women.
My reply: "It's also discriminatory against men. I'll take my purse and shop at my leisure. Good day".
(I regret not also pointing out that the standing policy presumes a gender-specific purse-carrying bias)
Moments later, I was being mirrored by plain clothed security. Over the next 45 minutes, I took the opportunity to visit each and every department; engage with a staff member therein, pointing to the pursuant security members, asking who they were. I was told many times, "Oh, that's Mark", or "That's Jeff".
On my way out I beelined to personally greet "Mark" and "Jeff", each by name. They were annoyed and powerless.
An hour later, I made my purchases from their competitor. Here, I was not viewed differently for carrying a "not-purse".
Money talks; but so do shitty store policies.
Living in a Dutch suburb I can confirm: yes, we walk to the communal bins (2 minutes) and yes we walk to the grocery stores (2.5 minutes). Btw we have seagulls instead of trash pandas and they can cause a ruckus too.
We have Black Backed Gulls which are merciless to everyone including humans!
If I had a nickel for everytime TH-cam randomly decided to blow up a video that was 1.5 years old & I had given up on; I would have 3 nickels.
@Simulating - I see, you caught the rare opportunity to put the word thrice in a sentence. Well played
@@LilliHerveau I long for the day when I'm able to use "Frice" (four times) in a sentence. Yes, this is a real word.
@@Bluecho4 I appreciate your goal. Wouldn't want to force it.
@@Bluecho4 I find it remarkable how other people have replied frice in this thread before me.
The youtube algorithm knows garbage does well. Just look at the trending tab.
I have a question for the 'strong towns' series you're doing. Can you put a white 'strong towns' logo above the 'not just bikes' text in the thumbnails (preferably with number)? Then they're easier to pick out in the recommended list after you just finished one. The titles are often so long that it often doesn't show the [ST0x] on it.
Or he could make a playlist, that would be nice too. It's an interesting series, I think :)
there is a playlist just for strong towns
@@GuidovanSpellen He made a playlist lol
It's super easy to get kicked out of the playlist on the mobile app, because the playlist view gets in the way of the comments and like buttons. Definitely having a clear logo and number in the thumbnail is helpful.
The youtube algorithm knows garbage does well. Just look at American society.
"Socialism is when the bins are good, and the better the bins are, the more socialist it is, and if all the bins are good, that's communism" - *Richard Wolff, probably*
This is Richard Wolff from Democracy at Work with another Economic Update ...
wow he knows marxism!
Only when garbage is separated twenty different ways will the conditions be ripe for full communism...
@@heysemberthkingdom-brunel5041 I didnt know I was a communist till I took out the trash.
Actually its not socialism, its good city management. many capitalist countries like Japan and South Korea have public infrastructure as good as socialist countries. its just politics in USA and Canada which is converting them into shitholes. Commies blame Capitalists and Capitalists blame Commies for their mistakes but no body is ready to accept their faults.
If you ever do merch you’ve gotta do a communist garbage bin shirt.
Hah! I definitely plan to do some "evil leftist agenda" stickers. 😂
Marx and Christ on a tandem?
Yes please :)
If it’s communist to live in a well designed city, I guess I’m a communist
And this is why communism is so popular among young Americans: You can't have , that's communism!
@@HiopX I am not a communist, and most young progressives aren't either. Just lots of people don't know the difference between communism and socialised policies
I mean you technically could have a completely capitalist city, but it would have to have a subscription fee and be behold to shareholders in order to actually be functioning. I would love to live in Night City if it actually had good amenities.
Ugh, you with your seperated, raised and marked bicycle paths.
COMMUNIST.
No you are not! cause you are interchanging the term Communism with "Good City Planning and management". even Capitalist countries like Japan and South Korea have public infrastructure and public transportation systems as good as Socialist and communist countries and sometimes even better.
Watching this from Amsterdam with my Dutch girlfriend. Her first reaction was "wait, this is a positive video?".
There are a lot of great things about the system in Amsterdam, but this garbage scheme has its own issues.
1. Sometimes the nearest bins are full and then you have to carry your garbage around the blocks trying to find an open one or walk back inside as a failure.
2. Most people are lazy when they find a full bin and just drop their garbage on the street. So the garbage fills up on the street outside the bin. The Netherlands is a windy place, so after one day garbage pieces are spread out all across the streets. It was a disaster scene in my neighbourhood for weeks!
Oh no! You rained all over the moonbeams, rainbows and unicorns commenters! Thank you for adding a little dose of reality here.
Experience shows that this is mostly a startup problem.
It takes some time for the council to find the required emptying interval for each of the bins, and some time for the users to get accustomed to the new situation. Give it half a year to a year and it will work much better. At least it did here.
(the best improvement was the removal of the card lock so the excuse of "forgotten or lost my card" was gone)
In short:
You guys still have it better than so many people. If it needs improvement, we trust you can make it happen.
Yes, some people do place their bags next to a full container, instead of walking a block to find an open one. And there is a lot of rubbish (Red Bull cans) lying around. But there are also people who pick up trash in the street or who have even 'adopted' an underground container to keep its surroundings neat. Most trash nowadays is all the cardboard from people ordering online and being too lazy to minimize the boxes and put them in the paper containers. It's not a perfect system but it's so much better than having to store your waste in a 50m2 appartment for a week. Also, the city is pretty active when you tell them the containers are full.
Except these are things that are all worse with how we deal with things here, pretty much as he outlined in the video. Essentially all the complaints you outlined can be fixed by installing more containers where they are needed. None of the problems with North American systems that he outlined can be solved with such a simple and cost effective fix.
If they did this in suburbia they'd end up making them drive-through and someone would overflow the bins with stuff that didn't belong
I live in a small village of about 3k inhabitants. Our plastic/cans and garden/veggy-kitchen material gets collected the old fashioned way, and we can choose to have an old bin or use street containers for the "rest". We have 2 "stations" of street sided containers, with a bin for glass (white/coloured), clothes, and "rest" garbage. I live across one of those stations, and we hardly ever have garbage spilling over. The containers have sensors which call for a truck to empty them, if needed. Those trucks visit regularly anyways.
@@peterslegers6121 That sounds like you have civilized people. I'm thinking about Americans
Oh like in the Simpsons movie
@@Relfar2 Tbf a lot of people are educated, but at least know not to litter.
You’re right, it’s that car centric society…
The only thing I know about out TH-cam overlords is that the algorithm does enjoy active comment sections. So the more mistakes or unanswered questions you leave in your video's, the more engagement it will generate, thus making TH-cam think it's a popular thing.
The flip side I just realised from watching this, is that I cannot imagine living in a sprawling, failing, car-dependant suburb. Your video's make a lot of sense to me, because it's about where I grew up. I don't know any different either. But that's also why I watch channels like this, to learn the difference.
I am unfortunately very used to living in sprawling, car-dependant suburbs, and it sucks. I almost wish to be ignorant of how good walkable cities are because then I wouldn't be so jealous all the time.
Every nation has their reflexive "but that's X!!!" argument whenever they run out of arguments.
For the US it's "but that's communism!" - for germany it's "but that's what the Nazis did!" - for france it's "but that's not french!" [i.e. not patriotic] - for the UK it's "but that's french!"
It matters with none of them weather the argument is actually *true* or not - the pure allegation is enough to end the discussion, because you don't even want to step _near_ such attrocities. In german we actually have a word for that: _Nazikeule_ (lit. Nazi cudgel)
It's just unfortunate that The U.S.' version can be used for anything that would make life better for everyone. I mean, you couldn't really argue that communal trash bins is one of the Nazi ideals.
To be fair, the Nazis exhibited the phenomenon of "fractal wrongness" to an almost comical degree - no matter which level you look at Nazi policies, all levels are wrong - just like the mathematical structure of a fractal.
Even in the very few cases the Nazis accidentally did something not outright terrible, they did it in a terrible way. Like their "animal protection" concerns that they used to be antisemitic (of course). Or their anti-smoking campaigns that were mostly about triple parenthesis being "behind" smoking to "destroy ar-yan manhood" or some such...
I swear some people in the US think every new idea is “communism”
@@creativecredence850 While I agree with you that it is far more common for the US version to be leveled at thing that would improve quality of life, the german version also sometimes prevents good things. To give just one example: The discussion about euthanasia doesn't really exist in germany. Most countries have a lively debate on if and when and under what circumstances to allow people to chose their own death and have medical professionals assist in that - in germany the word euthanasia alone is an absolute no-no word, because that's what the Nazis called their widespread programs of *killing* (not assisting in suicide!!) disabled and mentally ill people.
In my country it's also communism but the funny thing is that both the left and the right accuse each other of it. Why? Because our political scene is a mess
Both of the two main parties are socialist but one is more capitalism oriented. Interestingly it's also more progressive when it comes to cultural issues. The other party is more socialist but also conservative
This way both parties can accuse each other of communism. Apparently one is too gay (gay=commie?) and one is too wasteful. I don't want to support either because they're both trashy
"Communal garbage bins are communism" we already pay property tax, so why can't it just be communal instead of one singular bin for each house?
most people in the US don't seem to differentiate between communism and community, both are anathema
Jokes on you i live in a state w/o property tax
suburbia is so spread out, that you can max have 4-6 houses per trashcan. 4-6 households arent enough for such a developed trash system, it would be too expensive, you need like 40+ households for such a thing.
if you spread out ur garbage system in suburbia, to have 40 households per bin, people would have to drive to deliver their trash.
you could share your trash bins with your neighbours. 2-4 houses per trash bin would be ok in suburbia. but it wouldnt make the system much more efficient. and most people in suburbia dont like their neigbours anyway, suburbia is not designed to have good relations, its designed to seperate and degrade.
@@certaindeath7776 So, it would be per cul-de-sac?
because then you might have to interact with the neighbors!
and we can't have that, now can we? /s
interacting with comment sections in NJB videos is a mistake, my blood pressure rises with each passing second.
The sarcasm is getting extremely stale.
“Buying a bag of milk” such an Eastern thing to say. BC hasn’t had bagged milk in years. I like the idea of these bins.
Bagged milk best milk
Here in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, when installing these underground containers, they made sure that you have at least one underground trash container within 70 metres from your front door. And while we don't have trash pandas, we do have seagulls, crows and jackdaws and er... they are every bit as clever, if not more so, to open garbage as raccoons are.
I have heard that seagulls in the Netherlands wear wooden shoes... is that true?
@@MrEscen no they have their own bikes
@@MrEscen Absolutely, and they are expert cyclists!
I think a lot of these are just trolls. And as for the sincere ones... Well, it's funny that the word "our community" is held to be a well-worn cliché in US municipal politics, but mention "communal", and some people start confusing communal with communist... Trust me, former communist countries could only dream of having public infrastructure as good as that of the Netherlands.
The vast majority of these countries had atrocious pollution problems until the 1990s, when they started improving conditions after the fall of communism (one of the many issues with unaccountable totalitarian governments). The big irony is that a lot of the US' problems with pollution and promoting car-centric development are eeriely similar to efforts done by former communist countries in the 1960s-1980s. And the pedestrian zones built in that same era were built and designed in a very bad manner, light years behind the standards we've had in Europe (not only western, but central and increasingly eastern as well) since the 1990s. So the "OMG, Europeans are all teh ev000l commies" types really don't know a thing about the communist era (it was crap, no one in the former East Block mourns it nowadays), and don't know a thing about European urbanism.
European urbanism, especially the people-friendly sort, has improved in leaps and bounds in the last forty years, on both sides of the former Iron Curtain. Somewhere slower and more haphazardly, somewhere faster and more dynamically, but it has improved everywhere. US citizens really should take note of this, take notes from us, their allies and friends on the other side of the Atlantic.
@@SianaGearz It's not like this collapse was unforeseen, it was already pending ever since the 70's, the USSR tried to stop the downturn but every step it took only made the situation worse and they had to dump even more money in subsidies which worsen the economy etc. When the USSR collapsed all of the vital support fell with it, sure it was atrocious, but it wouldn't have happened if the USSR hadn't been fucking with the economy for 15 years and refusing to adapt it's model and plans in time thus causing the tumor to grow.
"When you live in a walkable city...... You walk places."
Im in love with your passive aggressive tone 😀
Some people say I'm too arrogant in my videos. I tell them to go watch something else. 😂
@@NotJustBikes I guess they are not used to the Dutch being more direct in their insults.
He is annoying, a Canadian being spot on on cycling and Sinterklaas in the Netherlands!
@@NotJustBikes you have truly integrated into the Dutch way of commenting ;)
@@NotJustBikes If they say you are arrogant, just tell them: _"Everyone has the right to my own opinion"_
So I'm one of the ones who watched the garbage day video this week. That said, I had watched probably a couple dozen other videos of yours over the last two or three weeks, even recommended a few of them to people I know who have also been lamenting the push to end work-at-home because of how terrible commuting is. Strange that so many other people would suddenly watch it around the same time I did, but I understand why the algorithm would recommend it to me.
I think that the garbage day video was one of the first ones I watched from this channel and I certainly found it intriguing, but overall this channel has just outlined all of the things I hate about working in Canada. Seriously this last year of not having a reason to drive due to WFH has really opened my eyes to how unnecessary it should be to have to drive everywhere. I wish politicians here would take an interest in city planning and start correcting our zoning laws and make our cities nice places to live.
I' have suddenly watched the video a couple times this week. But I searched for it, I didn't get it recommended
I found this channel because The Algorithm recomended his video on child-friendly citties. Which is weird because I like urbanism but dont have kids. I binge-watched a ton of his videos but I watched the garbage one last. Mysterious are the ways of The Algorithm.
I also watched a few of the other videos before the garbage one, because I use non-car transportation often, and help others to reduce car dependence. I only clicked on the garbage video in particular because when I stayed in Amsterdam years ago, I recall piles of rubbish bags on the street. I though it was weird (and very not Netherlands) that they didn't have a better rubbish system. Maybe I overlooked something obvious, or these in ground bins are a new thing - unfortunately my questions weren't answered, but it is a cool idea so it got my algorithmic engagement anyway.
7:08 "I won´t talk about this in any future video." Thanks!!!
Rodents and flying rodents is one of the reason why my, and several other cities in Denmark, have been adopting these in the past 10years or so.
Where I live, we used to have bins on wheels in the basement, with garbage shoots on every floor of apartment buildings. Changing to the system in the video, has brought down not only the rodent problem significantly. But also saved our residential area a lot of money, and made our neighborhood cleaner. Both inside and outdoors.
I absolutely love this system. When going out the door, you bring a trash bag or two.
While a trash shoot is easier, it's disgusting. And I find it easier then when I lived in a house, and had to roll a bin to the street every week. And had to clean up trash in my driveway, every so often.
I love this channel. I've been thinking about studying urban planning or something along the lines of civil engineering, and the videos on here are definitely making me consider it.
Be prepared for a career full of frustration from other planners, engineers, and designers giving lame excuses for not creating walkable communities.
Cool! I don't know what it's like to be an urban planner myself, as I've never been one. But Dave from @CityBeautiful seems to like it! 😁
It’s funny, because I’ve been watching a bunch of videos from Not Just Bikes and other similar channels (I’m a slave the the TH-cam Recommandations) and my boyfriend is like « what’s up with the urban planning lately? Are you going through career changes? »
@@d.rabbitwhite I’ve learned this as well, but I still find it very interesting. I don’t think we can realistically change the way that North America was built, we can only fix what’s broken on the surface.
video idea: Zwolle. Zwolle has both an old medieval city center and modern city planning like Stadshagen. I think Stadshagen could be a nice topic it seems to be designed with a lot of car restrictions in mind, yet still car friendly. And it's quite new with thousands of houses build in the last 10 years. it has 20,000 people and is a great example of the latest Dutch city design policies.
I'm not sure why, but I have been binging your videos this past weekend (again). Idk there's something super relaxing about watching someone essaying about infrastructure while you eat breakfast.
Glad you like them! Enjoy your breakfast NJB. 😆
I am Dutch. This system happened to me twice, Amsterdam and Utrecht, and both times I did not comprehand how elegant and fantastic this system is. And we have no wasberen! (literally translated = wash bear) (=racoon). It is an awesome system, of which I read about in SF in my youth from books written in the 1940's. But just 2018+ starting to realize how awesomeness ^__^
"...but I WON'T talk about that in more detail in ANY future video!" -- Absolutely hilarious, coming from the man who makes it a habit to say "but I'll talk about that in more detail in a future video" at least two or three times in virtually every video he makes. I'm going to keep tabs on you, Paul, to see if you can keep this promise... hahahaha just kidding.
Anyway, in 'my' neighborhood the underground bins are locked. You need to have a 'miieu pas', a key card specifically made to unlock two specific underground bins near your home. If the nearest matched bin is full or out of order, you go to the alternative bin. There is only one milieu pas per household. If you lose your card, you need to contact a special department, and they will disable the lost card and supply a replacement.
No matter how stupid kids might ever become, there is little chance that they end up in the bin.
Its Evil NJB from the dark timeline.
BTW his name is Jason, not Paul.
What makes the video amazing is how it's a reminder that the US, Canada, and any other car dependent area can be much better. Having underground trash containers that are in walking distance simply makes sense. Just like how walkable cities make sense but a lot of people oppose them.
Communist this, communist that. Excuses for not having a better service.
Hey man, how does Swizz health care compare with French health care? Do you know anything about that? (very random question I know)
Excuse for: your country has things better then mine, and I didn't accept it. Because America is the greatest, best, of all
@@Pro09video really fucking expensive. Still stuck in the past regarding digitalization. Badly managed, in a geographical sense, due to being catonal and not federal.
And obviously having a shitload of private insurance companies creates unnecessary overhead and a lobbying group for deregulation as that gets them more profits.
Don’t copy our healthcare or any aspect of it.
Still better and cheaper than the US system though.
@@anonym3017 Thank you for the insight!
Sounds like something a commie would say…
so many "but i'll talk about that in detail in a future video" moments... I AM HYPED
At least I'm also starting to be able to reverence old videos, too. 😉
I watched your original garbage video a dew weeks ago as part of a binge after my brother introduced me to your channel. I had never heard of such a concept and honestly it's genuis! Thanks for expanding on it. I'm really enjoying watching all these videos. I hope your channel continues to do well, and maybe inspire some positive changes and improvements in more places!
In newer neighbourhoods in Stockholm we have underground tunnels that transport the trash at 60 km/h to a central facility by air pressaure. That way the trucks that picks the trash up don't even need to enter the residential neighbourhood and the central facility is usually placed near the main road so the trucks drives a much shorter distance to collect, allowing the service to operate with a smaller fleet of trucks.
Whoa, I didn’t even notice how much the channel has grown. I think I started watching some time around the garbage day video. I wish TH-cam would show you when you subscribed to a channel
That would be a really useful feature! But yeah, the channel has grown insanely quickly!
It does: on the ‘About’ page of the channel…
@@NotJustBikes The mob has spoken. You have to quit your day job and become an urban advocate full time.
@@Arjannem that’s when the channel started
I think the commenters who shout "communist!" or "socialist!" at anything they don't understand, or that shows a different or potentially better way of living, haven't realised that doing so makes communism or socialism look *so* much better to large groups of other people. A bit counter productive if you're an anti-communist/anti-socialist type trying to argue why those systems are bad.
Now cue a load of people saying that this comment is "communist" or "socialist". :-)
The right wing and internal contradictions, name a more iconic duo lmao
You anarcho-syndicalist you. (^.^)
Communism is misunderstood. 😁
It's an American mindset from cold war propaganda that's unfortunately also seeping into the newer European populist right wing movements.
It's like they are unable to see how much better we have it here.
Shhhhh. Don't alert "the marching morons".
I suspect little boys with toy garbage trucks discovered your video and shared the hell out of it. I've heard of 4 year old kids literally watching hours of garbage truck videos on youtube because they're obsessed with them. And you better believe they know how to share that with their friends! Congrats on the views!
I've got more questions than answers. Thank you
As someone who was a 4-year-old boy at one point, I can confirm that garbage trucks are super cool
@@assorium The idea of a sprawling underground of 4 year olds sharing garbage videos is so bizzare to me.
I guess a consequence of lower barrier of entry to social networks is that childhood socialisation will evolve radically past playground rumors and older sibling trickle down lore
Well they have to protect their community from drowning in garbage holes and being taken away in a garbage truck.
@@danielalorbi haha, true! And you know by the fact that they didn't pass puberty, because another way they'd share another type of videos.
I work in NYC. Would love to see this type of trash collection taking place. Streets here are littered. It’s really sad, and quite embarrassing.
Where I live in Canada we have external mailboxes that you need to go to pick up your mail, I imagined external garbage bins would be roughly the same system
About the trash panda's, we have seagulls. Man, they just rip apart the trash bags in de morning and scatter all the trash.
It is such a big problem in The Hague that the municipality gives out free extra strong trash bags.
Lol, in Helsinki, seagulls will go after people's ice cream during the summer unless you're on guard when you are outside eating one in a park, and i mean they will fly up to you and nab your ice cream if you don't keep close to your self.
@@arkilos2253 I challenge that cheeky seagul 👀🤏
We got seagulls too. The other stuffs just such a big problem we dont usually put them on the list.
Just in toronto, theres also foxes, possums, skunks, porcupines, giant rats, and more living all over the city, plus the occasional bear in the suburbs, and several of these trash gremlins have surprisingly opposable thumbs on their little (or not so little) claw hands.
A double hand-lock 120L tub bin with a bungee cord strap is the best ive got to deal with the raccoons and i once found it 15 ft away from where i left it, pulled through the door of my breezeway and halfway across my backyard before the bastard gave up. **I** broke a sweat dragging the bin back to my driveway.
Never underestimate the trash panda.
No trash panda's in The Netherlands...
Laughs in seagull
Sky rats.
I'm so glad you became obsessed with these issues. I too have been bit by the bug. I've lived in the suburbs most of my life, and I always knew there was something off about it, but could never fully put my finger on it. Once it clicked, it made so much sense, and I just can't believe the insanity all around me and how so few people see it. When I try to discuss these issues with suburbanites around me, I usually get a fairly blank stare and it's increasingly frustrating. I hope to live in a more walkable place in the near future, but until then, I vicariously dream through videos such as yours. You're doing great work. Keep it up.
Yup. You are my "target audience": me, 20 years ago, when I knew I didn't like suburbia, but couldn't quite put my finger on why. Hopefully this channel helps to open your eyes to it!
@@NotJustBikes There is a large group of suburbanites who are swayed by the argument that the answer to not living in the suburbs is to live "off-the-grid" or moving to a rural area to "get back to the land"; just look at the popularity of some of these yt channels. N Americans are highly susceptible to this because of the myth of the homesteader, but this was actually forced onto people through the homesteading act and like I put it, largely a myth or "urban" legend. I'm going to be honest, I too found this appealing for sometime as I didn't want to "live in a concrete box in the sky", but now view this as complete regressive and only compounds the problems. Another thing I often hear is appeals to overpopulation because "just look at the traffic". My God, It's so frustrating. I share your videos everywhere because this nonsense is rampant.
@@al-du6lb blank stares? You must be living in a fairly civilized part of North America. When I occasionally want to risk my life and visit the United States, I'm usually the recipient hostile stares when I mention my now carless lifestyle. It's as if I'm attacking the very foundations of their identity by my mere existence.
@@rcmrcm3370 lol you must have visited the big cities. Ironic to this conversation, this is one reason why the suburbs were attractive and built in the first place. There are nice parts of big cities, but there are always areas which have a crime issues. I wish to leave the suburbs, but I want to move to a real town, not the big cities because for all the negative suburbs are fairly safe (when you're not driving in a car).
One downside of the underground containers -- and I say this as someone who overall likes them and has one in front of his front door: people ignore the volume limit and frequently overstuff them. Causing them to get stuck. Where you'll end up with piles of garbage around them until they're unclogged.
takes just a phonecall to the city council, or the trash collection company to solve that, and you could tell them to collect garbage more frequently.....
i use to live near a dumpster, the American/Canadian above ground version of your undergound bins. As many people can't lift the garbage up to the top to dump, it is way worse.
Aren't they supposed to have sensors which can see how full they are?
I feel like the level of sass has increased lately and I’m here for it!
Watching this channel always makes me yearn for my college days, because that was my first and still only experience living somewhere walkable. I went to undergrad in a small rural town.
There was one Main Street where any shops that mattered were located, with parking towards the back. Groceries, the eye doctor, the pharmacy, the bank, everything I could get to by foot. The sense of community was better too, because any friends I made either lived in the dorms nearby, or were from the town, and their house where their family lived was just a jog away. Now I’m back in my home city, and how much of a chore living here is painfully more obvious.
I think the underground bins are usually more common in neighborhoods with higher population density. They are also spread such that they're never more than a walkable distance from any residence.
Re: trash pandas: In the Netherlands the seagulls kind of serve that purpose... They may not be able to open bins, but they do fish trash from them if they are open, and rip open exposed trash bags. (Curse the people who leave their trash bags next to the underground bin if it happens to be full...)
I live in Enschede, a 100K something town. In a neighbourhood without high flats, we have 5 of these trash bin points within 200m. 2 of them are within 75m .
We have them (or bins like them) all over Sweden so it is not only population density. If fewer people you empty less often. 😄
Truth be told, I think they also make more sense in a bigger city than in, say, a small, quiet village with a few hundred people. Context is important. Somewhere, ordinary bins suffice, elsewhere, containers like this really help improve streets and dealing with communal waste.
I hadn't seen your channel prior to last week, now I'm hooked. All I know is the garbage day video showed up in my recommendations for whatever odd reason (I've never watched anything related to the Netherlands or similar previously). Like I said though, happy to have found the channel.
Great! Welcome!
Not even God knows the way of the google algorythm ;)
I love how well-ordered the trash has been placed next to the bin at 5:25. Can't imagine that would ever happen in my neighbourhood.
I think another reason this concept is so popular is because it uses a 'hidden' under-utilised resource - yes, underground space! It's similar to putting underground cycle storage. You can't build accomodation or store rooms on that public space because of access and rights issues. You can't build major structures because if you go too far you'll hit sewage lines or even tube train lines and there'll be all kinds of permissions issues. But you can just cut out a 2metre hole in the pavement all over the place, at really low cost with little complication, and stick a bin in it. It's a very satisfying and elegant solution.
It would be nice if the above-ground part could be made smaller and more elegant though, to increase the feeling that a useful bit of urban machinery had been stowed below ground (like with a power transformer room or a pump room).
buying a bag of milk? yep, he's Canadian
East Coast Canada
never seen them in BC
indians too. at least in my state.
Or eastern-european :D
What's wrong with bag?
@@TheKitMurkit nothing wrong with it, the service industry used them all the time
"people who live in car centric places don't know how it feels to live in walkable places"
*Proceeds to mention milk bags to trigger even more demographics
I liked getting milk in bags. Less plastic that way. 😉
@@NotJustBikes Would not milk in cardboard be even better then? Like tetra paks packagings?
@@bjorten tetra pak is much worse than cardboard, Tetra packs cannot be recycled because you can't separate the paper from the plastic and aluminum liner, and because of the same liners they can't be incinerated either.
@@rcmrcm3370 Tetra is recyclable in Sweden at least. 😄 I belive that is an so called excuse to not bother from the city.
@@Bookwright since tetra is a Swedish company oh, I suppose they want to keep up the pretence. It's the same in Ontario, a lot of the stuff that goes into the blue bin for recycling never gets recycled. It's just the way of getting the consumers to keep consuming so that the corporate sponsors of the politicians are happy.
Dang, and again mention the milkbag. Did you know we had them in the mid sixties? They got dumped when the tetrapack was introduced.
No, I didn't know that, I'll ask my mum.
You may be going back to them because Tetra packs are impossible to recycle and they release toxins when they are incinerated
Same in Hungary, except we dropped them somewhere around the mid-naughts.
@ I think the dropping part had something to do with that when they decided to switch to tetrapack. They were a pain to transport.
Apparently, Canada still has them :)
Man, this channel is kind of fucking me up. I've lived in California and Colorado for my entire life and figured I'd always at least stay in the US. I started watching Japanese TH-cam channels a few months ago and I've been thinking about how possible a move to Japan would be. My career (once I really get it started) would allow me to work pretty much anywhere and my fiancé works in graphic design so she would likely be able to find a job in any country too. She is not very interested in moving to Japan however. I kinda feel like Amsterdam would be a good middle ground though. Watching your videos just makes my hometown in Colorado feel so depressing lol I honestly hate driving so it always makes me second guess going out. We tried living in Denver for a bit because my fiancé loves being within walking distance of everything but it's such a stressful experience to walk around in Denver. Tons of constant traffic, homeless people that follow and scream at you, horrible biking infrastructure, etc. I think Amsterdam or Japan would literally be a perfect place for us to live. I appreciate these videos for showing me how great other countries are.
Also, I don't know if you've been to Japan or have ever cared to talk about Japan but I'd love to hear your thoughts on some of their city designs. I know many cities in Japan are vastly different but it would be interesting to see what you think of them.
I live in Newmarket Ontario. Garbage collection is every Friday for recycling and compost, and every second Friday for regular garbage. I also have to use the calendar on occasion to remind myself which Friday it is. What truly sucks is if I go away for a weekend and leave Friday morning my garbage will have to steam in the garage until the next Friday. This is lovely during summer months🤢
Those underground garbage cans are found in Ontario parks, mainly used to avoid attracting bears, and they definitely work just as well in the winter so that argument that it’s too cold for them here is mute.
Sometimes it’ll get to -30 in Algonquin where I winter camp and the garbage is still there fully operational.
Watching your videos makes me want to pack up and move instantly….alas, tomorrow I have to get up and drive 30km on multiple stroads to get to work. Transit isn’t an option 😖
I binge watched all of your videos in two days when i found your channel around March / April. You're simply fantastic. Witty, knowledgeable, and your videos have top notch production quality. I really want to subscribe to your patreon now
Thanks so much! Welcome aboard.
What we lack in racoons we make up in seagulls. Those flying rats will tear your garbage bag to shreds
Bin Chickens. Bin chickens make seagulls look like amateurs. The only thing worse is kea.
Worse, they'll actively steal from your hands in certain spaces. At least trash panda's will actively avoid humans.
@@gerbrandlub Oh gods I remember being on the ferry to Texel, and enjoying my sandwich outside, which isn't allowed anymore precisely because of those seagulls. I got a cut from the beak and a bruise on my face from the wings flapping against it. Absolutely horrible animals.
Yep, seagulls will tear up any exposed garbage bags
@@BlitzsieLDiscoLSnow When I went to the beach as a kid my grandma taught me a trick that worked most of the time. Chuck a small piece of food up in the air if you see the fuckers. That way you at least have a chance not to get smitten by the wrath of birds
The channel that teaches me a lot of stuff about my own country!
Maybe Not Just Bikes is the best channel on whole TH-cam and therefore people love to watch the great videos! 😎
Hrmm. Yep! The logic checks out!
This channel makes me wanna go to Amsterdam so bad lol I even started learning Dutch. It's an easy language for me as a German, so I might be able to keep this going. 👍
"... buying a bag of milk" We'll need some sort of follow up on that concept too.
It's a Canadian thing. Here you can get milk in cartons or in bags that you slip in a special pitcher. You just then cut the corner of the bag and you're ready to go.
I was in the comments just looking for someone talking about this.
he already talked about that in a previous video: th-cam.com/video/bnKIVX968PQ/w-d-xo.html
@@Francois_L_7933 It was very popular in my country as well in the past all the way up to 90s. I think there are still some that sell it in the bag, but it is rare now a days. It is czech, link too long, so you can search "mleko v sacku". If I remember well, this was both CZ and SK thing back then :D
@@nothereandthereanywhere Actually still is a thing in Poland, but you need to go to dedicated milk product shops usually to find it
I guess it was a “controversial” video? TH-cam loves people arguing in the comments
My personal anecdote says yes. My most watched video is one where people argue what is best. An ink printer or a laser printer.
Then his, "I'm not a cyclist" video should have gotten a lot of boost as well?
I want to argue with you but, well, I can't.
I don't think that YT like the arguing, but a lot of views and comments. Often happens that the arguing carries on longer that decent conversations.
@@keric3730 You can't? Why? Your mom told you so? Don't listen to your mom...
Arguing is the best!
For various reasons, I’m at a crossroads in my life at the moment. In the next 12-24 months I’ll have the opportunity to do whatever I please and go wherever I want.
Your videos have taken all the hardship out of where I should go to live while I’m doing whatever I want.
I always knew the Dutch were cool off the back of two visits to the Netherlands. I love how they treat adults like adults. They respect the fact that people will want to have self determination over things like drugs/prostitution/euthanasia, so rather than making them illegal they embrace the notion that these are all on-going facets of society (all around the globe) and they allow them to be part of society as opposed to adopting a moral high ground that makes them illegal. To me, this is a society that respects people’s ability to make discerning choices. Will there be abusers? Of course! But they’ll exist anyway. I’d much rather live in a society that affords me a choice rather than punitive action.
So, when I consider all the above, coupled with these fascinating insights to the Dutch way of life…and their innate ability to make really sensible “quality of life” changes to their living environment…I’m emigrating to this wonderful corner of the world and I want to thank you for making this decision so easy.
I’ll make a point of looking you up if you’re still there.
Happy to have you here! Just remember, we're very eager to speak English to you. So if you want to learn Dutch, b eprepared to have to remind people to talk Dutch to you, no matter how frustrating the conversation may be. Otherwise you'll never learn.
Also, remember that there will be a lot of complainers too... let them complain, it's usually better than ending up in an arguement. And that those complainers are, in the end, usually a very vocal minority. It's that mantra that keeps me happy (aside channels like these and copious amount of traveling).
I'm sure you'll be welcome in a country that is already massively over-populated, and that has its own set of very serious problems, including intensive organized crime activity. You might also ask yourself what happens to all that garbage once it's collected. The answer might surprise you.
While living my life both in Nottingham (UK) and Zoetermeer (NL) I experience a great difference between rubbish collection and options to recycle waste.
Nottingham collects the wheelie bins every week, with one week for recyclables (plastic, paper, cans) and the other week for all other rubbish. Glass is not allowed to be put with the recyclables and goes in the general waste wheelie bin.
Zoetermeer offers underground containers for waste for flats and wheelie bins for family homes. The wheelie bins are collected once a week and the underground containers are emptied as soon as they are filled up, guided by a detection system.
As you mentioned in one of your videos about the planning of residential areas in The Netherlands, there usually is a shopping hub in each area. These often include a little island for dispensing your recyclables, with separate containers for paper/carton, transparent glass, coloured glass, plastic, cans, batteries.
One of the funniest questions I ever got asked after showing someone the original video (or a picture of the bins) was asked in New Orleans (a city whose geology, geography, and water table are famously not well-understood). The person looked me straight in the eye and asked if these would work "with the high water table here" and I couldn't stop myself from responding "as opposed to the Netherlands...where it's...not?".
Obligatory mini-explanation:
New Orleans was not built below sea level
Most of the city is is not "below sea level"
The French Quarter is several meters ABOVE sea level
No one says "Nawlins" and "NOLA" is a typeset abbreviation, nobody says it out loud.
New Orleans is NOT CAJUN (unrelated, just seems to need repeating)
It was definitely the "carry a garbage bin with wheels" part that made the old video popular.
It's so weird that people watching managed to ignore the fact that he was carrying it up and down stairs.
@@haphazard1342 Not to mention those are better than drums in making noise. I live where nearly every street is cobblestone of some sort. Some people on the backside of my house live where the garbage truck cannot move to, so they roll their bins 50m across the small stones. It sounds like a gnome army is attacking. I don't need to remember the garbage calender. I only need to react to the sound ;)
My bin falls down if I wheel it down the curb lol. They want him to have to pick it all back up again.
@@haphazard1342 The channel name has "bike" in it so the people just assumed he eats only salad and has intelligence comparable to a rabbit.
@@haphazard1342 Those who complained he carried it up and down the stairs instead of making a racket to raise the dead, are the jerks that like to make noise to remind their neighbors they exist and are the center of the universe. Unfortunately there are a lot of jerks in the world.
Interestingly one of the NYC mayor front runners has made converting to bins one of her signature issues. (Not underground, surface bins at least like barcelona) I wonder if that woke something up deep in the bowels of the algoritm. Either way, I love my walkable brooklyn neighborhod, but I hate garbage city, so I hope we do something here.
I think you had only 100 subscribers when I first found your channel and it’s been fun watching it grow. It’s really interesting to see how these topics are finally received by a more general TH-cam audience. Most of these people have never had their world view challenged in such a simple way so I guess it’s no surprise they react defensively. At the risk of your mental sanity I really hope TH-cam continues to promote your videos. They absolutely need to be seen by a general audience.
I keep myself sane by not reading the comments after the first few days. There are a lot of people out there who get violently angry when you suggest that the US isn't the greatest country.
Thanks for watching for so long!
@@NotJustBikes Thank you for making such great videos. I must say I'm one of your Dutch viewers who likes the ego-stroking the videos give me, but it does surprise me that most US and Canadian cities are disgned that way. Thanks for all the information!
@@NotJustBikes At least many are too stubborn to learn from others. Which is rather ironic, considering the history of the country - a part of the reason why the United States became the leading world power was their willingness to learn from the downsides of Europe and improve upon the old continent. Now that the roles have been switched for at least the past 100 years or so, the rest of the world has been doing catch-up and in many ways surpassed the United States.
That said, I understand how frustrating the ridiculous responses can be. Now matter how clearly you articulate, no matter how clear and consistent your argumentation is, there are always some idiots who completely misinterpret everything you say and miss the point completely. It might be because of cognitive dissonance and intellectual dishonesty rather than actual intelligence though. Some people might be too self-absorbed to keep an open mind for new information and they are just reacting to a few sentences or keywords and their preconceived idea about you and the channel.
It is difficult but try not to take it personally and also remember that the overall reception of these videos tends to be overwhelmingly positive for such controversial subject (in North America, that is) and there are also other people to correct misinterpretations on your behalf. I think you are doing really well in that regard. Keep up the good work! 🙂
In Singapore, we have a system of garbage chutes that also use gravity to consolidate rubbish in a large bin or a huge hopper at the bottom (depending on how your apartment block is built). Older blocks have a chute in every home, even the first-floor units (which are raised off ground level for this purpose and for privacy). City council workers collect the bins from each chute and bring them to a central refuse building in the neighbourhood, thereafter collected by the garbage truck. Newer apartments have a centralised chute in the lift lobby which everyone uses, and a garbage truck can access the hopper directly to empty it.
I was wondering how difficult it is to live in US & Canada if I had to. After watching many videos in this channel, I understand that it is way more difficult than what I have perceived already.
Tell me you're from Ontario without telling me you're from Ontario - buys milk in bags.
Maybe they like that natural udder feel? I'll say this: it's better than panic-buying gasoline in bags.
@@coastaku1954 Ahhh the Lakeshore GO line. The only fairly reliable all day, both way train service in Ontario.
Yeah and you are a Torontonian
This guys snark and cynicism levels are increasing in each new video.... and I love it!
Some people tell me I'm too arrogant in my videos. I tell them to go watch something else. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@NotJustBikes you are right to tell them that😂. Snarky & cynical; my style exactly (not being cynical here😉).
@@NotJustBikes adds to the entertainment for me, as you are at least 90% right imo.
Having lived in Amsterdam for 5 years (sadly ending Oct 2020, now back in the car-dependent US) your videos and perspectives resonate with me for sure! Regarding your 'bins are full' issue in Amsterdam, as you know, it's not allowed to just stack trash next to the receptacle if it's full, yet everyone does it. The ONE time I did it (because, hey, the locals do it!) some nosey neighbor went through my trash bag, got my name and address from something in it, and reported me to the council, at which point I was fined heavily. Learned that lesson really quickly! But it grated on me every time I would walk past those same bins and see a lot of stacked-up trash there (because the bin was either full or, more likely, the round scissor mechanism of it was jammed).
Maybe it was not your nosey neighbor, but the council itself. It is quite common that people from the council get sent around to collect improperly left trash and then scan it for addresses and issue fines.
Here in foggy Cornwall we have a brilliant system in town centres where businesses put their rubbish on the pavement in black plastic bags once a week and the seagulls rip them open and strew everything all over the place. For some reason, most of these businesses seem to believe that they are no longer responsible for their rubbish once it scattered all over the street.
Nice to see you filming in my home city of Delft ^^ (looking forward to the video)
People worried about kids climbing into a garbage compactor
1) they can climb into a regular bins
2) suburbs are full of drowning machines (pools) and body manglers (big ass cars). Maybe worry about those first.
Agreed
And don't forget about that hand-eating machine in the kitchen sink.
We got bins here as well. And basically every area that has a clump of stores has at least some of those bins to drop stuff off in. I always drop it in the communal bins, because it doesn't cost me anything as opposed to the bins being picked up. Got to go to the stores anyway, might as well bring thrash on my way there.
Been sharing your vids to my american friends, dutch myself. Your strong towns vids gave a lot of insight about North America city planning. So I'm happy that I'm in Zwolle. Come shoot some video material over here, Zwolle is beautiful.
I second that. Zwolle has both an old medieval city center and modern city planning like Stadshagen. I think Stadshagen could be a nice topic it seems to be designed with a lot of car restrictions in mind, yet still car friendly. Heck I think this is such a good idea that I will post this suggestion as a direct comment as well.
Happy to hear it’s your first million views, partially cause I watched it yesterday, mostly cause I think you deserve it and I’m happy for you.
Thank you!
As a Dutchman who has never left Europe these comparison videos are very interesting. And your calm voice also helps.
Covid garbage pile-up was only in the first few months in Zeist. That said, bureaucracy can be a bit slow at expanding garbage capacity where necessary. Our apartment complex has dedicated containers but still lacks its own PMD pickup, I asked the city about it and their only suggestion was go to the Milieustraat. Some underground containers around the city center are unlocked and don't require a card to open so I can dump my PMDs there on my way to work, but unfortunately some of my neighbors just dump it in the regular trash container - goes to show how little effort some are willing to put in for recycling. There's been some advances in automated garbage separation recently so that's good news.
@@jbird4478 It is definitely seeing major failures and that may contribute but it's unlikely to be the driving cause of the behavior of the average non-recycler. There were reports of what you say in recent years but only in 2021 did the inspectors present those conclusions. Before that people did it entirely on their own initiative - people have been lax when the failed experiment had barely begun and long before that as well. Not everyone jumped on the glass/paper/biodegradable recycling bandwagon at the offset either, the classic example of the tea-bag going into three different bins. Hopefully the aforementioned advances in separating at the end-point will make the problem of getting the average person to separate their own garbage a moot issue.
In Zeist, of all places ? I blame the Immortals... (Highlander II reference... No, seriously. Why the hell did they name an alien planet after a Dutch town ?! X-D)
@@ZemplinTemplar Zeist is about to be decapitated, because THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!
I'm pretty sure we have similar bins in Canada (including in balmy tropical Winnipeg), but only in parks and on commercial streets. Such big belly bins allow cities to pickup trash less often. Possibly this helps cities reduce service vehicle trips, however it may require a larger vehicle that idles more often compared to smaller vehicles doing more frequent smaller pickups.
"Kids are not that stupid here" lmao kind of true though
Anyone stupid enough to climb into one, deserves what ever happens after.
And should they die, atleast they'll get a Darwin award...
@@PerfectAlibi1 That's like saying "any child stupid enough to walk into the middle of a road deserves what ever happens after. And should they die, at least they'll get a Darwin Award".
@@specialopsdave
Any kid capable in doing so, should've already been taught not to do that..
In my neighbourhood in Utrecht I live next to 6 of these underground garbage bins. They are amazing! We used to have 2 bins for plastics recyclables but with covid and the enormous amount of online shopping the paper bin was overflowing like you showed. So they replaced one of the plastic bins with an extra paper container and increased garbage pickups. No more trash on the street!
Probably one of the reasons I loved living in Chicago so much. Walked everywhere, and very rarely used a vehicle.
As a fellow "Canadian in Amsterdam" I can endorse the overflowing waste the city is currently experiencing due to COVID, but I'm afraid in my part of the city, Staatsliedenbuurt, the solution still vexes local city services. They've done away with separate plastic containers now (and integrated that into general waste), because the sorting machines (apparently!) do a better job than humans. It's the bulky waste that really irks me!! People with little regard for the beautiful neighborhood just "fly tip" large waste any time they want, even though there is a weekly collection on a specified day. The city is powerless to monitor and/or enforce penalties on individuals known to do this....
You could 'adopt' a garbage container. Then when there is 'grofvuil' placed next to it on the wrong day, you can send the city an app and they come clear it away. They give you some tools to clean up the small messes.
@@EmOrganizer How do you do this? I'd love to make sure my local little garbage container area remains clean.
7:13 hearing americans call everything unfamiliar communist is always funny.
''Buying a bag of milk'' Welp, that's probably the most Canadian thing you've said on this channel
literally watched like 20 of your videos this week. never before. truly amazing how the algorithm works
Love your sense of humor and your intelligence. I think you are my favorite channel on TH-cam. Cheers
I caught your "I'm not a cyclist" video a week ago... It came up in suggested videos for a week before I watched it and now I'm progressing through your other videos. It seems logical that a video that gets people watching many other videos by a channel is more useful to youtube than a popular video getting no follow-on views. Not sure if that's what's going on here, but your content is good. Especially interesting for those of us who live in bike friendly geological locations where local governments understand the benefit of bike infrastructure (traffic, parking) but go up against anti-lycra folk who think every traffic problem is solved with an extra lane for cars.
Aight those bins look great but what if we wanna see the cute little trash pandas :(
Didn't expect to see you here, love your videos keep it up
@@Emerald_Forge bro my 2nd passion is hating terrible city design
@@HipyoTech As it should be!
I think it's such a popular video because the majority of people who saw it had no idea that was even an option when it comes to trash. Everyone here in America hates trash day, but since no other options have really been explored except maybe in the large cities, no one even knew there could be an alternative. Now that I know, I desperately wish this was a thing where I live, along with other enjoyable things about living in a walkable place, to the point where I've debated moving out of the country to a city like this for a while to see how it is.
No pal, you have a great YT channel... people heard about it and just randomly picked a short video to try it out... or maybe not. Greetings from Argentina (garbage is a mess here, like pretty much everything else, but we have bicycles and walkable cities at least).
I found this channel today and have been binging the hell out of it! I'm a Canadian with a Dutch best friend so everything you've posted is interesting to me!
I think I've watched everything you uploaded and this channel has changed my whole outlook on my city overnight, and my life too. Victoria, BC is a very livable place as far as North America goes, but now I want to get involved to keep improving it! I can walk to my main place of work, and most other things I need, but when I do need to drive, I can think of many places that would be vastly improved for everyone with better non-motor-vehicle infrastructure. There's already a lot of changes from when I last lived here ten years ago (coincidentally I went to London, ON for a degree, can confirm it's boring), but still so much more to do! And even though I'm a hermit-like recluse, happiest in front of a computer, these videos make me want to go outside and appreciate my local neighbourhood.
Thank you for making this channel, it's amazing.