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| Leergutannahme translates to "Empties Acceptance" |
Recycling at the grocery store is easy....if you can read German! I had to take these shots and head home to translate the instructions. This is in an area as you first walk into the store .
When you buy a drink in a bottle here, you pay a fairly large deposit on the bottle. In the case of sparkling water (which is VERY popular here) the bottle can cost you more than the water. You bring the empty bottles to the machine, ...it reads the UPC codes and when you're done, it prints a ticket that you take to the checkout. Most Germans buy their beer in cases and you can see there is a place for the plastic crate return at the bottom. We peered into the round bottle return (picture #2) and expected to see the inner workings of a machine...but instead, we saw bottles, cans, and jars stacked & sorted on large tables in the room behind. Evidently, your returns drop into a hopper and an actual human takes them and groups the bottles for return to the appropriate company. I'm going to post more on recycling later! They really have a great system here.
Deede
When you buy a drink in a bottle here, you pay a fairly large deposit on the bottle. In the case of sparkling water (which is VERY popular here) the bottle can cost you more than the water. You bring the empty bottles to the machine, ...it reads the UPC codes and when you're done, it prints a ticket that you take to the checkout. Most Germans buy their beer in cases and you can see there is a place for the plastic crate return at the bottom. We peered into the round bottle return (picture #2) and expected to see the inner workings of a machine...but instead, we saw bottles, cans, and jars stacked & sorted on large tables in the room behind. Evidently, your returns drop into a hopper and an actual human takes them and groups the bottles for return to the appropriate company. I'm going to post more on recycling later! They really have a great system here.
Deede
That looks SO cool. I wonder why we can't get stuff like that more widely spread here??
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