Shocking truth of Recycling Trash in the US after returning from Germany | Reverse Culture Shock
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 พ.ย. 2023
- In this video, I'm sharing a shocking truth about recycling in the US after returning from Germany. It turns out that Americans living in Germany are actually recycling much more than Americans living in the US!
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We're Betty and Lee, originally from small towns in Southern USA. We moved to Germany and quickly fell in love with the country. As American expats living in Germany, things haven't always been easy, but we embraced our expat life and have grown to love our life in Germany. The hardest part of living in Germany is being so far away from our children in college and extended family so we have decided to try living part time in Germany and the United States. We'll share our travel experiences along with things that surprise us about living in both places.
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We recycle in my community. I have four waste bins in my kitchen, and at the recycling center there are around 15 categories. Sadly, the EPA said that our incinerator needed a million dollars' worth of upgrades, so now the incinerables are landfilled. We still keep them separate, just in case.
Thanks for watching and sharing your experience. It can be a confusing and frustrating situation for sure. Thanks for doing your part. What part of the country are you in? Thanks.
@@travelingexpatlife I live in NH. Recycling isn't that hard. In my kitchen I have four pull-out bins: aluminum cans, steel cans and glass containers (they're right next to each other at the center), plastic bottles and incinerables. In the mudroom is a box for clean mixed paper and one for corrugated cardboard, and there are gallon milk jugs. My neighbor gets my newspaper to start her woodstove. Occasionally I'll have a bag of metal items or something to go in the landfill dumpster. It takes just a couple of minutes to load my vehicle, and maybe five minutes to throw everything in the bins at the center. Add another ten minutes for socializing.
This just showed up on my video feed. Where I live, rural Oklahoma, the town has a recycling center. Also they take electronic waste to. Our houses got small recycling bins about ten years ago when they switched trash companies. We can put plastic # 1 and 2. Paper/cardboard, tin cans in them. It all gets put together in what looks like a trash truck but says recycling on it and gets sorted at the center. There are also three trailers with numerous compartments for different stuff in different parts of town. Just a few years ago a professor at the college started glass recycling. They pick it up once a year at the farmers market or you can take to the college and drop off at the bins. They mix it with cement to create yard ornaments and stepping blocks I think. I recycle everything I possibly can and wish more would also. EDIT TO ADD,, when the virus first started going around they stopped all recycling for about a year. Everyone that recycled including me was keeping some stored in our garages till they resumed it again. It killed me throwing some away, but I couldn't just keep piling it up
Thanks for watching our video and sharing your thoughts and experiences. I lived in Oklahoma many years ago and the town I lived in offered a pretty robust recycling program. The problem was that they only did normal trash collection and if you wanted to recycle you had to collect your sorted trash and take it to the recycling center on your own. Of course not many people participated in the recycling program. I hope they have a better system these days. Thanks again.
Loved the skit and seeing Mocha. I felt nostalgic seeing a dumpster. 😂
It’s hard times not having a dumpster 😂😂😂!
Reduce-reuse-(recycle) 😢 This waste of resources is heartbreaking. Einen guten Neustart Euch!
I agree with you, hopefully things will be handled better soon. The world deserves better. Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts.
Glad someone is saying something about this! (recycling more than the culture shock) Many places I've lived you have to haul your own recycling and pay for it, which is so crazy and backwards so of course noone does it. Other places you do the same but only for things more than the standard paper, certain plastics (I'll never get the difference tbh) and cardboard.
Wow! I have never heard of being required to pay in order to have your trash recycled. I imagine it’s not utilized very often. Crazy! Thanks for watching and sharing your experience.
I recycle at my house, but they won’t pick up glass or plastic bags.
Thanks for sharing your experience. It’s very different across the USA and other parts of the world.
Thanks for sharing that.
You are welcome. Thanks for watching. How is recycling done in your area?
Maybe you should offer the bags to the neighbors by posting on FB or CL. Where I am from we recycle paper, food/green, & moving boxes & a lot others stuff.
Great idea! Thanks for watching and sharing your tip.
Bin da, habs gemacht. Gruss aus Connecticut, bzw Fulda. 😎
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We should be paid to recycle as after all its our property we bought it in th first place.
Sounds like a great idea. Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts.
Move to the Province of Québec Canada.....we recycle everything.....even dog/cat poop for Industrial Compost! ♻
Oh wow. In Germany they have a Bio collection system for things like egg shells, plant clippings, coffee grounds, old fruits and vegetables, etc. But you aren’t supposed to put dog or cat poop in there, at least in the areas that I’ve lived in. In the U.S. I don’t think they do anything with pet waste in any region. Thanks for watching and sharing your experience.
TOO MUCH INFORMATION!!!
Get germanized , hi hi hi ....
Hello - thanks for watching!!!
Ugh this anoying
.Ugh so annoying. Oh no you can’tsave the world
Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts.
True!
Everyone can do a little something. Turn on your brain a bit and you get used to it. Plus there isn't that much rubbish lying around here.🤷♂️@@dalemoore8582
Dude seriously needs to get a life. Oy.
Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts.
In Germany, recycling is part of life!🤷♂️
Yes, absolutely! Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts.@@arnodobler1096