We Have No Garbage Day in Amsterdam!
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- Опубліковано 29 гру 2019
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With the underground containers found in most neighbourhoods in Amsterdam, "garbage day" is a thing of the past for our family. And good riddance! This video talks about some of the benefits of these containers, and how I don't miss garbage day ... at all.
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The $31 million spent by Toronto is over a 10-year period, and includes the delivery of new green bins. More information is available in the CityNews article about the new Toronto green bins:
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BlogTO article about raccoons breaking into the raccoon-proof bins:
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Snopes article about the NASA "space pen" myth:
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Amsterdam map of garbage & recycling containers:
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Toronto "Green Bin 2.0" video, where the security camera footage came from:
• The Green Bin 2.0
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I just binged 6-7 of your videos, and I'm now convinced that the Netherlands are a mythical fantasy land where simply living your life isn't an inconvenience.
Same. And my grandparents are Dutch. So I'm just heartbroken that they chose to move away from this mythical fantasyland
The city of Maastricht even has yellow brick roads
I went to Amsterdam in 2019 and absolutely loved it. So easy to walk around, bike and the Amsterdam Centraal station can easily take you to other countries. If it was easy to immigrate from America and I could find a job, I would highly consider living there or other parts of the Netherlands.
@@gabrielrenanamantedeaviao.750 Europeans were kinda busy killing each others
Its not
I am Dutch and I lived in India for 7 years. There was no garbage day there. Just garbage. Everywhere.
Garbage day there has a different meaning, every day is garbage day, as in garbage afoot every day.
Another solution
And poop
As for where I live, everyday is garbage day
Everyday is Garbage Day! And Garbage Evening! And Garbage Night!
As a Dutchie, also living in Amsterdam, I always find your videos fascinating.
If you grow up in the same environment, often you takes things for granted while they are actually very clever designed.
You don't know how lucky you are. I envy where you were born. (I'm American)
I love it. Got plenty of Dutchie family
I also live in Amsterdam almost my whole life but i’ve always thought of these underground garbage things as something very clever.
When there are shootings and stabbings and muggings on your street multiple times. You don’t want to walk your trash down the block to a garbage collector.
This one is actually not about how great the Netherlands are, but how shitty North America is.
I'm not Dutch, but that's the first time I've even heard of such a concept as 'garbage day'
This work only when you have a responsible government that empties them on regular basis. We had those installed in my neighborhood and they got filled really quickly and the area around them and it smelled...
the idea is that you fill them up a few days before they're emptied
Same here in Lisbon, they are all overflowing in my neighborhood. Not great.
@@secouepaslekombucha Is the lockdowns have anything to do with that? Or is it only a city organizational problem? Not enough workers? I want my community to adopt this. It seems that it would make for a more sanitary environment. But after reading the above comments, I now have these questions.
As a retired sanitation worker, I can tell you any government operated, centralized garbage collection point never works...They are never emptied enough. City or rural areas, the bins are almost always overflowing. The problem is other people, not from the area, who do not want to pay for their garbage removal take advantage of this service.
@@poa2.0surface77 lighten up
There is a story of a California park ranger who was discussing the problem of creating a bear-resistant garbage can. He summarised the problem as follows: "There is considerable overlap in intelligence between our smartest bears and our dumbest tourists."
Brilliantly put:-)
he could have said "and me"
The solution is very simple: The most secure garbage bin is the one that isn't there.
The National Parks and Wildlife Service in New South Wales just doesn't provide any bins at all and has signs up telling you as such and that you'll have to take your garbage home with you. And no, you can't just burn it because parks offering open fires are the exception. The rule is gas-fired ones with the flames hidden away that prevent visitors from accidentally starting a bushfire.
@@Roxor128 yeah, that won't work for Americans. They'll see no trash bin, read the sign to take your trash with you, and 60% of people would just chuck it into nature. Truly sad.
@@Roxor128 - That has got to be the dumbest solution I've heard in a while. No offence to Australians, I love you guys, but that's just asking for piles of garbage just 'out of sight'. All it really takes is for that first guy to dump and then everyone else will say "well if this person did it."
Imagine if we took all the good, innovative and smart factors of cities from around the world and implemented them into other cities... it would be so amazing
Amazing, yet quite contrary to the common sense approach we Americans have nevertheless been unable to get off our collective fat asses and put forth even a small effort to make happen. Anyone who thinks that the present day way of thinking, in general, might be remotely sustainable will soon enough see what it feels like to be a strip of bacon in the middle of the frying pan we call Earth.
Keep Calm
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@@brainnumbing8335 i have almost no trash expense. i just throw a few nuts on it and light up the whole mess.
@@victorhopper6774 Yeah I nut on my garbage too
@@brainnumbing8335 "Strip of bacon.....". I blame the dinosaurs, the planet's climate changed so badly when they were here it made them extinct! Get even, burn some oil!
@@1D10CRACY pretty sure the biggest theory is that the dinosaurs went extinct after an asteroid hit earth. Also, if we don't want to end the future of the earth, we need to STOP burning oil. It's not a game
We have this in Portugal since the 2000s. Didn’t know it was such an advanced thing
Another city slicker. Not sure how this would work if you lived 30 minutes outside of a city.
In England, I cannot imagine this coming to my city any time soon.
@@tcolondovich2996 I mean in my city the truck comes picks it up and goes to the recycle place that’s about 30KM away. It abranges tho cities within I think 75 or even 100km
wow portugal is such an advanced and cool country!
There’s this system in some parts of Cataluña, Spain as well.
For someone who's been living his whole life in a country like Finland, that feels beyond absurd. Granted, I never lived in a big city and we don't have raccoons here. But in towns/cities, you don't have your own garbage bin. The neighborhood or the building you live in will have them and you don't have to worry about them. And there are dedicated recycling areas around the city.
Another thing I'd like to mention is that we get money when we return the bottles and cans back to the shops. 0.15€ from cans 0,10€/0,20€/0,40€ from bottles. That amount is already included in the product price, but we can get it back. There are machines in the shops that you put them in and it gives you a ticket that you can turn into money or use it to buy something. The bottles and cans are then recycled and reused. I'm quite interested which other countries have this kind of a system in use? I know Sweden does at least.
You can trade in your cans and bottles for money in America. They have recycling companies in charge of that.
netherlands has a similar system for certain glass bottles (beer), all plastic bottles, but not for cans (I think from 2022 cans will also get included). You could already turn them in, but at a scrapyard. Netherlands doesn't have raccoons either, but lots of seagulls, pidgeons, magpies, rodents like rats/mice and crows would feast on plastic bags before we got those big containers.
It was fun to witness them being implemented, because the coastal birds suddenly turned up in cities way more land inward, because the cities on the edge basically got rid of street garbage completely.
Smart birds. But the cities won the battle ;)
@@caleb-gw8oo They are virtually in every supermarket in Finland. So when you go shopping it is a case of taking shopping bags and your recycling.
In Michigan/Oregon USA we get 10 cents per can/bottle, a little less than your .15€ and Michigan/Oregon are the highest in the US. Other states only offer 5 cents. Most states don't offer anything.
Thunder, we have the same system in Canada. Five cents for regular soda and beer cans or plastic bottles, twenty cents for the tall beer cans. You put them in the machine found in all grocery stores. I dont drink soda or beer but when I go to someone's house and they are going to throw the cans out in the recycling, I keep them and bring them back to the store when I go. I put the cans in the machine, get the paper slip, go in the store and get what I need, then give the slip to the cashier and have it deducted from my amount. I havent paid full price for a cartoon of milk in months, sometimes even getting it free!
This channel is basically one massive flex of Dutch's society and how modern and progressive they are.
I know, right? And the guy isn't even Dutch. He's one of those maple syrup ice hockey people from the frozen wastelands of Hoth.
@@ivo215 yup, he's got perspective of 'other'
They do some cool stuff, but maybe too progressive when they beat peaceful protesters... That was definitely a massive flex of power
@GN Too many Canadians are content being a little less awful than our gregarious neighbour to the South.
"Modern and progressive" it's just being pragmatic and solving problems.
Most places in The Netherlands still have garbage days. We do too AND have underground containers.
Saartje de Hond there is only one city that foreigners know in the Netherlands , Amsterdam only . The rest doesn’t exists
Overal in Nederland hebben we het, zelfs in het kleinste gehugd.
And some of them there is insane tax on garbage bags
Saartje de Hond same
@@hugo112max germans know The Hague
Actually, this should be titled " Every day is garbage day in Amsterdam."
haha
😂😂 so true though, literally and figuratively
that doesn't sound good
Fewer but heathier rats!
Our neighborhood in Prague replaced regular above ground dumpsters with these a few years ago. It wasn't accepted well. The underground dumpsters have receptacles smaller than common garbage bags, so you need to cram your garbage into it with force. Sometimes bags burst, so these hightech underground dumpsters are surrounded by heaps of rotting trash that didn't fit in.
The old dumpsters had a sliding lid that opened to a 1 by 1.5 meter opening, you could throw in a 100 liter bag once a week. Now we need to use smaller bags (30-40 liter) and go more often (so more plastic bags, more time spent).
The old dumpsters could be picked up and emptied by the garbage truck inside of 20 seconds. The underground one needs a crane and a crew of men guiding it with rods, and it takes 1-2 minutes each. Every Tuesday morning is a race to beat the garbage truck, because it clogs the one-way street for 20+ minutes.
yeah that sux I understand ya.
It's all about money not convenience
@@GG-ii1uc Duh. The real reason these were put in? You need special crane trucks to empty these bins, and only one trash company in the district has these. Happens to be friendly with a few higher ups in the local government. You get the idea.
@@iaadsi hahaha that's exactly what I was thinking about.
Same thing in Romania.
A better question would be how many bags do I need to chop up and fit a person into one of these receptacles
@@WhiteWolfeHU about 9
It still exist in the outskirts of Amsterdam. It is simple: if you have a garden in Amsterdam you have a big bin and a garbage day(there are exceptions). If you live in appartments you have the underground garbage and thus no garbage day.
Not just in the outskirts, in the brouwersgracht/Haarlemmermeerdijk area we also have rubbish days twice a week. The only under ground ones are for paper and glass recycling.
In apartments you still have garbage day for 'grofvuil'. Large waste that wont fit in the bins.
Pretty much any canal street still has garbage days.
Apartment buildings do not have garbage day in USA either. There is either a bin inside the building or above ground outside
@@robertm3951 Also, even when there's such a thing, it is taken care of by the landlord, that the trash cans are finding there way outside of your house.
Heyo! Dutch sanitation worker here! I actually empty these for a living (though not in Amsterdam) here's a couple fun facts for those of you who are interested;
- The containers for glass, packaging, paper, and textiles are usually grouped together in so-called 'recycling islands' or 'recycling streets'. These containers are emptied on a shedule like mentioned in the video. Ideally, the truck comes by when the container is just about full.
-The 'waste' containers (for non-recyclables) operate on a pay-per-click system, using a contactless household-bound smart card. The card opens the drum once, after which you can put a 60 or 30L bag in, and close it, which rotates the drum so the bag falls into the container.
-The container registers this action as one 'click' and it knows how many clicks it can take before it's full. Once it's at about 60%, it sends a signal to HQ and gets put on the route for the next day.
-When the truck comes by to empty the waste containers, after putting it back into the ground, the worker will swipe a special badge over the container display, resetting the 'click counter'.
-Using this system, the trucks only head out to 60-100% full containers, maximizing efficiency, and in our case, one truck is enough to cover 90.000 inhabitants on a 5-day 8-hour shedule.
-Containers can have many different mechanisms for lifting and discharging via truck-mounted crane! In the video, you see the so-called "mushroom" system, allowing the operator to empty the container and put it back into the pit, all without having to do ANY manual labor.
-Waste containers only need a small solar cell to power the locking mechanism and the click counter!
-Compactor containers like the one in the video are powered by a power supply that's mounted inside the pit. These containers have a screw compactor inside, and a laser tripwire that activates it when an x amount of bags have been dropped into the container!
-Depending on the company, area, and circumstances, crane trucks can empty between 50 and 120 containers per day! Trucks are typically operated by one person, who drives the truck to the various locations, gets out, and empties the containers via remote-control truck-mounted crane.
-Our trucks (like most in the business) have crane-mounted weighing systems, that can weigh a container in the air, once when full, and once when empty. This way, using geodata, the system knows which container we're loading based on our current location, and keeps track of the volume of each container when emptied. This data is then used to optimize routes, and move the emptying times backward or forward on the shedule as needed.
That's really cool, thanks for sharing!
I'm Dutch and never thought about how these work. Thanks!
Things like this are why when solving any issue, a government should first look at what other countries are doing and asking "Can we do this too instead of coming up with a super expensive new solution that might not even work?"
NY desperately needs these.
Germany could definitely also use this approach from time to time...
First by hiring a super expensive "consultant" to come up with that super expensive new solution that might not even work!
@@KPnDC I don't know if would help
Not with how absolutely massive the underground bins would need to be
At least not with all the trash I see on garbage day
yup, some things have been tested and can be copied. Copy them!
A town we stayed in in the Netherlands had the same "no garbage day" system. Unfortunately people are the same the World over and a lot of the garbage found its way onto the street somewhere near the receptacles provided. Taking out the garbage was a rubber gloves and gumboots job.
So they basically took the concept that works in most apartment complexes, where you just throw your trash into a central location as needed & it get picked up (mostly) regularly, and applied it to the whole city? That's literally genius!
Yes! Except its aplied to almost all cities in the Netherlands. Only in more rural areas they have a trash day.
Sounds great! I hope their recycling bins doesn't get as full as the ones in my building get before pick up.
same where i live, we throw it out in a bin and it gets picked up like twice a week.
@@justicedemocrat9357
Yeah? Then why does L.A. smell like sour milk?
@@justicedemocrat9357 yeah I'd call it ingenious
Imagine being an American kid who moves to Taiwan, and then in the summertime you hear what you think is the ice cream truck, then you run outside and find out it's actually the garbage truck!
🤣🤣🤣 I was thinking the exact same thing!
We saw a street cleaner truck that played music in Wuhan, China. The had a water jet on the front and 3 men in the truck for some reason.
Or your Friendly Neighborhood Drug Dealer. There has been cases of Ice Cream Truck vendors dealing in the side
@@AntonioCostaRealEstate Pretty sure my dad ran that hussle. Also apparently some chicks will let you fill them up with blow pops.... Why did I need to know that dad? I will never eat a blow pop the same again. T_T
He was the type that loved salt and vinegar cuz they reminded him of eating Pssy
@@akimbofurry2179 Your dad is disgusting
At first I was thinking this was some holiday called “We Have No Garbage” Day
In Finland, I had no idea that trash day was a thing. I laughed at the prospect of having to haul your trash out once every two weeks!
Well, the plus side is that we don’t have to take a walk with our garbage every time we want to get rid of it
the garbage truck is the coolest thing ever to toddlers. adding music might just send them over the edge.
That is so true. Missing the time my kid still interested in them.
One of my favourite childhood memories is, when the garbage men let me drive with them in their truck until the the end of our small street 😁
When I was a little boy I wanted to be a garbage man……..
How disappointed are these kids, when they think they hear the ice cream truck coming?
Over the edge 🤣🤣
This channel is basically just dedicated to worshipping the Netherlands.
I love it.
Pim it’s about time haha
Imma wait until I know what they do to their garbage
because we are GODS
@@philosoftfurkitusjunkyard2462 Here in Amsterdam it is burnt in a very modern and clean trash to power station. That electricity powers the public trams and more and more electric buses as well.
@@amsterdammancom
Yeah, I have decided that smoking don't give cancer. But I can feel my lung is filled with something ashy. But we try our best.
Wow, I’m surprised by the situation in Toronto! Here in south Brazil we have locked trash containers on the outside of buildings, for organic and recyclable, which everyone in the building has a key for and each apartment takes care of their own trash to be disposed there. Then, twice a week the waste truck picks everything up. Now the real issue begins, as our waste treatment is nearly zero and we have piles of trash just dumped somewhere with no respect for the environment whatsoever.
When I lived in Australia, the condominium I lived in had shared garbage and recycling containers, so we would just take out the trash whenever the bags were full. You don’t need fancy underground if you’re just have a massive container in the side alley that everyone in the block uses.
It’s the same in Germany and Austria. A couple of big containers for certain kinds of trash/recycling either for the specific building or the building complex. And then once or twice a week the garbage truck comes by and empties them.
Same in the US, almost all Apartment complexes have Garbage drop off locations which gets emptied instead of collecting individual garbage, this video makes the video creator seem really ignorant about other cities
In Spain there is neither "Garbage day". Garbage is collected everyday (important due to the hot weather in summer). Containers are usually in the streets and in many cities, specially in historic districts, there are as well many underground containers.
I think spain's street cleaning army is larger than spains real army...
Same as in almost all of Spain.
Every day is a trash day :-)
They got automated trucks for trash pickups that do not require trash cans.
The trucks are not automated, it's just an crane which lifts and empties on a button press. The driver still moves the arm to the right trash bin. :D
I experienced the blessing of that system in Barcelona, 5 or 6 containers for different types of trash
and they were empied by as much different cars at the middle of night, I did not sleep that well at my stay in Barcelona.
Yeah, I'm generally quite impressed with these guy's videos about the Netherlands. But with this one I was like "Well, isn't this common everywhere". At least it is in Spain lol.
@@alfonso6558 Same. Too bad we made a bunch of underground containers, only to find out that with the summer heat they get smelly.
Spain is lucky the E.U took control of everything.
Big trash panda corporation is going to be so mad when they find out about this.
This is so awesome that you posted about this. I remember seeing this a lot when I was in Vienna for recycling and tried explaining it to people, they thought I was crazy.
I’ve been to Iran three years ago, they have garbage day everyday, garbage cars come everyday after midnight, so after you take out the garbage before midnight and you won’t see any in the morning plus I remember there was a fine if you take out the garbage in the morning which insure that the city remain clean and good looking
i love that, except aren't your garbage trucks hella loud? My biggest complaint about garbage day it the racket the truck makes; it would wake me up. but then if you live in a big city you get used to sirens and other loud noises all night so i suppose you'd adjust.
Thanks for sharing. Didn't know that
Iran is beautiful. Shame about the revolution.
@@recklessmermaid nope, idk how but they are silent here.
never had a problem with garbage trucks or heard of anyone waking up from them.
@@willythepeachfacelovebird indeed BIG SHAME
as a dutchie, the word trash-panda made me laugh so hard, just genius
HahahahahH ja same
Komen jullie wel uit Rotterdam!?
Meanwhile in here we called it wasbeer because they always wash their food before eating 😂
Yeah we can't call them "wash bears" they don't clean up after themselves. 😂
It is true though...that is what we call them and this video has excellent footage the completely explains the name Trash Pandas... :)
I don't know if this would work in my city. Most people leave their trash on the tables that they eat at or just drop their trash on the ground wherever they are at. It doesn't matter to them that a trash can is two or three SUV lengths away. I think it is because these people want to inconvenience others that come after them.
I just adore that expression "trash panda" and will call them that going forward...
Ok as a Dutch guy, I can tell you it's kind of a Myth here in this video that most of the Netherlands has these fancy trash containers.
because it is true if you live in an apartment or any toll building then you are most likely to have something like this. But in a lot of Dutch regular homes we just have garbage day like everybody else.
In fact we have even giant containers like you've just showed in your video this is pretty much identical.
I do not live in a suburb I live in a pretty decent City called nieuwegein that is pretty close to the major city of Utrecht.
the fast majority of the homes near me have just normal garbage containers.
However a lot of trash containers usually get put into a central location for picking up in the neighbourhood.
Animal wise we don't have to deal with trash pandas at worst we might have to deal with a curious household cat so we don't have that problem.
Which is something I think is quite difficult to solve in Canada.
I think when you have a big household and just have to dispose of a lot of trash. there is no way to go around a trash container.
I would say a simple solution to the trash panda problem is to have a simple and basic lock that uses a universal key.
that can be opened by anyone because that animal maybe smart but I doubt it be able to
beat a simple lock.
Thanks for sharing this information. It's nice to get a more realistic perspective.
Well hopefully this kind of garbage disposal system is gonna be implemented more.
"it's kind of a Myth here in this video that most of the Netherlands", there is no myth in the video. It's literally written in the title that is portrays AMSTERDAM and it's said in the video that not all places have it. If you wanted to talk about the situtation in the whole country that's cool. but do not accuse the author about spewing myths.
@@Baan616 You are absolutely right. And though it is not everywhere it IS slowly spreading. Of course it isn't one size fits all, if the density of people is lower it is less practical. I really do like this development and the video is great ;p
Ok as a Dutch guy I can confirm this is not a myth. The video clearly talks about Amsterdam and not the whole country (though it is most of Amsterdam and not 100% of it)
We might not have to deal with trash panda's, but a decent part of our country is near the see and we have to suffer flying rats (seagulls). There where enormous amounts of trash spread all over the roads before we worked things out.
Here in Leiden (Netherlands), we used to have a similar problem a few years ago but with trash birds (seagulls). On trash day, they would descend on the bags and rip them to shreds, strewing garbage across the streets, while noisily quarreling amongst themselves. The gemeente (local government) of Leiden undertook a campaign to get people to start using seagull-proof yellow trash bags, which proved quite unsuccessful, going as far as launching an ad campaign depicting the seagulls as gangsters. In the end, the gemeente gave up and installed these underground trash collection points (one right outside the house we had just bought). Although the noise of the trash truck can be excessive, and we've pressured the gemeente to adjust the collection hours to later on in the day, it's such a relief not having to deal with the mess and noise of the seagulls.
Gemeente = municipality in English.
Trash birds = flying rats
I can tell you not a real leienaar ;)
@@revivehydra7945 Volgens mij is het Katwijkse Duif ;)
@@Saaihead duiven = vliegende ratten* ;)
@@patrick-bu3eq Not quite, a council = gemeenteraad. The municipality = the whole town with all the land around it.
Here in finland weve had this for like, ever. Just throw the bag in one of those big trash container things and the truck comes once a week to take it from there, you yourself dont have to care about any garbage day, i didnt even know one existed.
The pen vs pencil thing WAS true. The soviets started with pencils, but the shavings started floating around, getting into everything, people's eyes, lungs, some of the pencils graphite even caused problems with electrical shorting.
This is not quite as universal as you make it sound 🙂. These underground trash bins are used in denser neighborhoods, inner cities and for midrise appartment blocks and highrise flats. They can often be card-locked for use by the residents only.
The underground recycling bins for glass, paper and plastic (and sometimes for other things like metals or old clothes and shoes) are universal; they are placed in every neighborhood and near neighborhood stores and around shopping centers, for use by everyone.
The lower-density neighborhoods (as in suburbs and smaller towns) do tend to have the large plastic rolling bins of different colours for trash and recycling, that are picked up on an elaborate schedule in alternating weeks - everyone has a gray one for trash and a green or brown one for composting waste, then most municipalities have a third colour (blue, or gray with orange lids, or whatever) for a third type that differs by municipality: I have an orange-lid one for plastics, my father in a different town has a blue one for paper. His plastics get collected in plastic bags once every fortnight, our more windy town stopped doing that as the wind made a mess of those bags, so they switched to the third container. Our paper still gets picked up by volunteers for the sports clubs and churches, who get paid for the volume they collect. In dad's town they didn't consider that economically sensible, and the municipality collects the paper trash in the blue household bins.
But even in areas with separate household recycling bins you'll find the underground recycling bins, at the least near the neighborhood store (but often in more locations), for people who don't want to collect all these separate fractions at home for two weeks, and don't mind walking 50 meters to dispose of it, or taking the empties back when they go to the shop.
As I mention, this is "most" of Amsterdam, not all. They are pretty universal in Amsterdam though, as the map from the gemeente shows, though they are almost completely absent from the canal ring. For the rest of the country, you're right: they're only in certain dense city centres.
Here is the coverage map for Amsterdam:
kaart.amsterdam.nl/afvalcontainers
@@NotJustBikes Sorry, you're right, I'm talking about the Netherlands in general, while you clearly indicate that you're talking about Amsterdam.
It's just that for many foreigners Amsterdam seems to be synonymous with Holland, and Holland with the Netherlands; and so conclusions based solely on this one large, dense city overrun by tourists in the center sometimes get generalised. Then people sometimes write off viable solutions because "their hometown isn't Amsterdam".
These underground recycling and garbage containers are a very viable solution, even for small towns, for any midrise apartment buildings, shopping areas etcetera; even if the low-density residential neighborhoods still have individual rolling containers for each home, with their attendant garbage collection days.
I just wanted to clarify that point; it was not meant as a critique on your video. I guess my small-town bias showed up in my comment, sorry. I love your videos, you make interesting points visually very clear. Looking at my own environment through foreign commenter's eyes has opened my own eyes and helped me think about things that I took for granted, and your videos make some of the good points very clear, even for people who don't live in this environment, I'd think. I put a link to your "continuous footway" video in my comment on Robert Weetman's blog on that subject, as your film shows in a few minutes what my bumbling words cannot quite get across to people who haven't lived with it.
@@NotJustBikes The canal ring will get them when the surface parking lots get removed along the canals (Agenda Autoluw). As of now there simply is no space there. In that part of the city the menace tearing open trash bags aren't trash pandas but rather crows and seagulls.
Thanks for the response! I'm happy to have people correct me, so I appreciate your take on the smaller cities. As a foreigner, it's impossible to know exactly what is a thing done in the Netherlands vs only in Amsterdam. I do my best at researching, but I'm always happy to be corrected, too! 😁
I live in a small town south of Rotterdam, we have underground bins. We have them since by grandma was a kid(we got electric ones 10 years ago) so its nog about the density of a city but about how much the city government cares about it
The reason pencils aren't a good idea in space is because graphite dust goes everywhere - and it's a conductor, so huge problems
I would think grease pencils would be a good option.
@Yazmeli Ayzol pencil lead is graphite. lead is poisonous and can't really be used to make pencils. it's just called pencil lead. (if I remember correctly)
@Yazmeli Ayzol holy shit ahaha the more you know
Also NASA didn't spend any money developing space pens. The Fisher company spent millions of its own money developing it and then sold the pens to NASA for the same price as any other pens.
@Yazmeli Ayzol thats not true people have been writing with graphite for the last 500 or so years and with wooden pencils with graphite cores for more than 200 wooden pencils with lead core were never a thing and if u want writing with lead u have to go back at least 1500 years. plz do at least a tiny bit of research before perpetuating falsehoods.
That's not just Amsterdam, that's normal in a lot of European cities :)
I still haven't decided which i like better: cities that collect trash in containers on the street (like Amsterdam), or cities where each building has a garbage room on the inside with trash can/containers stored there.
I've seen some people use bungie cords to hold the lid tight and keep out trash pandas.
You mean a raccoon 🦝? Just asking
Wait never mind watched the video😂
@@noahclark3185 😊👍
For years i've used a heavy paver stone with absolutely no problem, but a one time burst of petty vandalism in the neighborhood had be thinking that a large stone near so many windows was a bad idea,
Since then, ive drilled a hole through the latch and the lid section it hooks onto, and i just place a padlock through the hole.
Usually i dont even lock it, the Racoons have never found a way past it yet.
Pencils are actually strangely dangerous in space. Graphite dust breaks off and is free to float around. The problem is that it can float into electronics and it is electrically conductive which can cause huge problems with no way to fix it.
Graphite chips tend to have sharp edges and presents a serious risk of getting into eye or lungs when they fly around freely.
I wonder why they didn't use crayons.
Wrong video?
@@jannis01 Didn't watch it, huh?
This sounds false, saliva and sweat are conductive too...
There is no "garbage day" when every day is garbage day.
Gargabe day tomorrow.
Less plastic shit we don't need and start to work with soil. Everything else will eventually nurture itself.
I only need to put out my garbage bin every two weeks, sometimes three because I recycle most stuff for further use. I don't throw out left overs and my recycle bin that I do use takes months to fill.
@@PetroicaRodinogaster264 Ur white, you get called "Karen" for "Caring", keep it up.
This is so foreign to me. No garbage day? Why doesn’t the US have this? I throw in a huge dumpster but most have 3 colored trash they put out once a week.
@Sir Hamsterlot That guy took out his trash and that other guy took him out with a stolen police revolver lol.
I agree, trash pandas are a nuisance. Would love to see this implemented here in Canada
i don’t remember other country having garbage day either so this is normal
"Trash pandas" at my college, we just call them students.
octet33 i saw an albino raccoon on campus once.
Wait, you have racoons with degrees? Wait, do they have human mascots?
HA
@@Simtar123 Some are clever enough. :-D
Honestly, the garbage system in the Netherlands is one of my least favourite things about living here. Ever tried to shove your plastic recycling one by one down the tiny opening of these orange plastic bins? It's like they don't want you to recycle. Also, the bins are often full and then people just start throwing their trash next to the containers, which then gets blown all over the street by the wind.
Oh Damn, you think that would be solved if they added an sensor that would notify the garbage collectors that the trash was full?
Yea seems like a big pain
sweden mostly just uses communal garbage rooms full of bins, emptied once a week. seems like a simple enough solution?
We just got these in our neighborhood (Sweden). We face the same issue. Never had this problem with collective containers.
Here in Bergen, Norway we use tubes that suck the garbage into a container building. I know some Swedish cities have this too.
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When I stayed at an AirBnB in Amsterdam I had no idea about this but just ended up taking the bag of trash to a trash can, this is awesome!
This isn’t ideal for all cities but man New York could definitely use it!
How long before they are stolen?
even after 2 feet of snow?
Have you seen all the garbage bags on sidewalks before garbage day in NYC? 😳 I don’t think this could accommodate all that volume
@@mattkennedy6115 and NYC cut funding to the sanitation department. As if the city wasn’t dirty enough already
Yeah cause people and buisnesses are going spend all that time dragging or transporting tons of garbage to these bins??? I can see this work to replace corner baskets but def buisnesses trash or household trash . You really think people are gonna spend all that time to put one bottle and piece of cardboard at a time ??? Buisnesses would have to hire a person and prob a vehicle just to get rid of their trash which would def be more expensive then hiring a private company
The way it got pulled out of the ground O_O; Fascinating ..
Yes very fascinating until the truck goes around the block at 5 in the morning, it’s also less fun when it’s a glass container and it even wakes up the demons from the deep pits of hell
Its actually much more common now, especially in europe. Not really something innovative..
@@borkmapper7419 I remember first seeing them some 8 years ago. And I live in Portugal. So yeah this is old news.
Lol i got so used to it that it is funny that someone finds it fascinating
If those were in USA, there would be people stuck in them trying to get aluminum cans.
as a dutch person living in the suburbs of The Netherlands I will have to correct you on one thing. what you're describing here is only in the big cities and usually in the centres of the big cities. we do have containers here. we call them KLIKOS and they get picked up weekly. however is done very efficiently and nobody minds it because its just putting your kliko on the side of the road and that's it.
Actually you are right but these KLIKOS will replaced by these underground containers in the future.
Watching this video made me aware of how convenient it is to have this modern way of garbage disposal. I live in Leeuwarden, north in the Netherlands and we have a shared underground garbage container. but I also lived in other parts of the country where we did ( and still do) have the weekly or monthly pick up system. Both work fine, but it sure is more easy do get rid of my garbage anytime it fits in my daily program...it's a kind of luxury and I now appreciate it more, thanks for this video
I'm Dutch and the underground system is only is city centers. smaller towns still use the bins or use a combination. Personally i have a bin for paper & cardboard, and another one for compostables (gft, natural stuff like fruit peels, egg shells, weeds from your garden etc), but the plastic goes into an underground thing, and so does the "restafval" (whatever doesn't fit in the previous categories.) . Then there's also above-ground containers for recycling glass, textiles, and cans. empty batteries go into a recycling bin in the supermarket.
And also, far less breeding grounds for flying insects like houseflies and mosquitoes that can potentially carry deadly viruses.
Take notes, New York and Philly!
get rid of the bugs and then you just have to worry about the Eagles fans
It would be too "socialist" for the USA.
What would nyc be without rodents and bugs? The rat is one of our mascots for a reason. Look it up.
Seems really expensive and unnecessary. If trash is picked up in a timely manner it's not really sitting around long enough to attract pests. And raccoons are really not that big a deal if you just put a lid on your trash cans.
In bigger apartment buildings in NYC and presumably other American cities, they just have a trash chute that leads to a dumpster, so it’s never garbage day and your garbage isn’t on the sidewalk. Literally just walk down the hall and throw your garbage down it. The issue with garbage bags on the streets is with smaller buildings.
We use the same system, except it's by building. The containers are monitored for fill level, so if the scheduled pickup is too late, they get picked up sooner. It's great! ❤
it would be kind of funny to put a baby in those magic underground garbage bins. "bye bye"
Should rename the channel to "Not just reasons to move to Amsterdam"
That would be a lie though!
Easy reason. Its the worst city in the country.
Move to Limburg. At least its not all flat here. Friendlier people too. :p
@@Soladrin I mean, for it being the worst city, it's doing pretty damn well compared to my sloppy us-of-a
...reasons to leave Canada....!
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He called those bins “huge” but those are the smallest once I’ve ever seen
They literally showed smaller ones in the video
lol also how is lugging your trash 50 meters to the nearest drop off convenient in anyway?
He's also carying somthing...with wheels...designed to roll.
@@howdareyou41 this is only in the bigger city's where it's much more convenient to use these mass containers for everyone because almost everyone lives in either an apartment or a smaller house with not alot or garden space, let me be clear, it is illegal to leave you trash container outside of your property when it's not a trash pick up day, so if you have to put the bin inside your apartment, well that's a no go, these are the best solutions, in more suburban places you still have trash days for normal trash and a separate one for paper and plastic and you have special containers for each, but that's impossible to do in bigger city's
@@torneagle4235 down gritty concrete steps :P that's how you destroy your ankles
I've been researching (a lot) about other countries and their ways of life. Thus far, the Netherlands seems to be the nicest in the sense of commuting. It's also good to know that plenty of people there speak English.
In my neighbourhood in Poland there is something similar, but less cool.
there is just a shack behind a parking lot with industrial-size garbage bins, that everyone just throws the trash into, and the garbage truck comes and picks up all of them at once.
We have those in Romania too. Garbage day is still a thing in smaller communities but even in cities with ~50k inhabitants (or at least my city), the dumpsters are underground like that. I really like them this way (one downside being that they are harder to close when poorly maintained) because they keep things tidy and keep dumpster divers out.
Edit: Actually it's just a substitute for normal dumpsters, suburbs still have garbage day.
Si din cand in cand vedem la TV cum sobolani au gasit cum sa intre in containerele astea subterane si se inmultesc necontrolat.
What city is that? because in Bucharest there is still garbage day...
@@vulturul Zalau
I made a correction saying that garbage day is still a thing, but around where I live, a lot of the old dumpsters were replaced with underground ones
That is a really clever way to handle garbage. We don't have racoons or possums getting into our garbage in Australia, but sometimes a dog may open a lid and pull out some garbage, but it's rare these days.
I assume that by "Dog" you really mean a big spider. Things get lost in translation my friend :)
@@Simtar123 no I mean dogs
The only dog that has pulled our rubbish bin over had 2 legs and was most likely pissed. Only ever happened once. You've got me wondering about why the possums don't go for the rubbish, their smart little bastards but there's a lot of vegetation around here and I've seen them get off the possum highway and into a tree.
@@JohnCran possums are small, and bin lids are fairly heavy for by comparison.
@@WonderWorldYTC you need to see more in the way of varieties of possums by the sounds of it. Some brush tails can get pretty big and while I've never seen them going through a wheelie bin I have seen them going through open top footpath bins near city parks before. That said it wouldn't surprise me if larger urban brushtails were to figure out how to lift a bin lid... Thankfully it doesn't seem to be an issue, I guess most possums prefer to maintain a healthy diet lol.
This was recommended to me by youtube today after I watched a few of your videos. I live in the UK and have weekly food waste and paper waste disposal, bi-weekly large green bins Canada style along with mixed recycling black bin. So I put all the bins out this Monday on collection day in a row and for some reason was the only house on the street not to have their food waste and paper recycling collected. I checked the food waste bin like "Huh maybe this was emptied." only to open it and be greeted with a writhing ocean of maggots at the bottom in my food waste. Actually vile. The imagine is going to haunt me and live rent free in my head for weeks if not months. I wish we had collections like this but I am stuck in shitty UK suburbia, much more walkable and accessible than North American suburbs but still terribly lonely and now I am discovering inefficient in so many other ways :D
Here in Switzerland we too have these type of bins jn a lot of places. We can see if the bins have been emptied as in the the surrounding areas there will be magots in the undergrowth... the stink of the open bin getting picked up is sickening
Yes, kids do sometimes end up in these. Just hope there is no compactor on the inside of that specific one.
On a serious note. I actualy do know of 2 occasions where it happened. One was near my school in Arnhem. A newborn was put in one of these at night by a parent. Passer by's heard it cry and called the emergency number (112).
Another one was where kids were playing with it. And one opened it. Got in. And closed it. The friend opened it again and no more kid above ground.
112 was called and a quick 30mins later ish. He was fine.
The most important thing to not here is. It's difficult. But not impossible.
I'd also worry about animals inside it, either them getting in themselves and getting trapped, or by terrible people :S
@@Amber_Oakheart If someone wanna hurt someone / something they will do it, whether it's a dustbin or anything else.
On a sidenote, those should be closed so nothing should be able to get in there unless it's a human doing it. No idea why he opened it again after throwing his garbage.
@@Amber_Oakheart Most of these don't just open as shown in the video. They actually require a card to unlock it. That's not to say someone couldn't throw an animal/kid in there.. but you can do that with regular garbage bins too and just lock it or put something heavy on top...
Almost anything can be used in a bad way.
"opened it again and no more kid"
Holy shit I thought you meant the trash compactor activated.
That's the reason the ones in Leiden need to be unlocked by scanning a "vuilnispas" or "garbage card" (literally translated for you non-Dutch speakers). If you don't have a working pass and can't scan the bin, it won't open.
Not to mention roads look a lot nicer without bins constantly in front of houses, especially true in London
bins are only out once every fortnight
But he did mention that.
Did you dislike 2:09 ?
I wish something would be done about businesses leaving bin bags in the street every day.
The redevelopment of elephant and castle has this system
Seems like there is still a garbage day when the bins are collected
Yep that was my reaction too, it just moves the garbage pickup from trucks that go down your street to trucks that go... to other places? Also if you have a lot of garbage it seems like it could be a pain to carry your trash regularly to wherever these underground collection spots are, considering I don't think they are probably on residential streets.
Exactly massive eye roll when the garage lorry came for me
Except of course, that every neighbourhood DOES have a garbage day every (other) week, they just empty out the large containers, instead of the wheelie bins per house.
Like living in an apartment. Great, you have a shared neighborhood dumpster. I rather not hike every other day to take out the trash when it is snowing or raining outside.
@@irtheLeGiOn Yea I like opening my back door and walking still on my private property to take my trash to my bin outside. If I had to go out into the street to dump my trash every time that would be a pain. With these ones in Amsterdam I have to make sure I'm dressed and have shoes on just to dump a single trash bag.
True but he means for your schedule you don't have an assigned "garbage day" where you have to wheel out your bin
@@ceezb5629 except of course you do. Plastics, paper, and glass work, as well as green waste (garden clippings) are still mostly picked up through personal containers, and bags. Not to mention that the underground non recylable garbage containers are generally only used in high population areas (appartements) and narrow city centres.
You know what tf he means... smh
A drawback of these underground containers is that when they're full, garbage just gets dumped right beside it. Where I live, this starts the day after the garbage container was emptied.
@assassinlexx We dump it in the canals.
Just kidding.
In Portugal they get emptied every night, at least the residual waste, recycling and glass maybe not. So I just look out of the window to see if there's space or just bring it out in the morning.
Our city switched to pay-per-use underground containers and you wouldn't know it was full until you had already paid for it and the bag wouldn't go in. Fun. And to top it all off, they decided to give half of the city 90% of the underground containers, increasing the problem.
@@ErdeAnAlle Same at Spain. I don't know if they empty them all every night. I guess they check all and they empty the full ones. But I'm not sure. In any case, even if there's trash left outside the bin, it's not there the next day.
So taking your trash down 20 steps is difficult but walking around block makes much more sense...
Taking down a heavy bin with 14 days worth of trash versus carrying 1 days worth to the bin that you were already going to walk past. 🥱
@@user-sx4yu3nw4j i'd rather carry a heavy bin once every 14 days than have to take out one bag every day
@@natesrubin I wouldn't, but hey, something for everyone
That is a really great way to keep the garbage tucked away and the city clean.
I live in Greece and the garbage trucks empty all the bins every night. We don't have smaller individual ones but each block has at least 1 big bin on each side and the trucks pass by all streets vertically and horizontally.
the more i watch this channel, the more i want to move to amsterdam
By underground I thought like a big thing with all of them connected
That's what I thought. With a big conveyor that takes all the trash to the dump.
in Bergen (Norway) there is a system almost as you describe, you open the lock with your key card, throw the trash in and it gets sucked to designated place underground like some km away from the original place where you threw it, there are garbage receivers in different parts of the network
@@GeneralChangFromDanang I thought the same thing, but a futurama style vacumuum tube sucking it all away somewhere.
@@Malandrin great way to get rid of a body?
Like the Dumpit to Crumpit system in The Grinch?
Some of the Trash Pandas still figured them out because they are smart little bastards. 🤣🤣 🦝
true ... the love a challenge and some are practical jokers ... I watched a trash panda wait for people on their nightly walk resting one paw on a tree and the other under the handle of a metal trash can lid and peeking to see where the people were .. once beside him he opened and slammed down the lid twice hard and fast ... the people jumped and ran ... the trash panda looked back at me and smiled ... literally smiled ... he knew i was there and he knew exactly what he was doing ... best laugh I ever had ... and yes the couple were still out for their walk when i crossed their path later and I told them what happened when they asked about it ... they laughed too and after that laughed when he tried again ...
I'm curious, do you think we can't understand what a raccoon is without a picture?
Love how he carries the full bin down the stairs instead of rolling it
Maybe he wouldn't have hated garbage day, so much, if he had figured out how the wheels work.
Funny how his voice matches a guy that can't use wheels.
Yes, because those tiny 5-inch plastic wheels work sooo well on 8-inch steps. Geez Louise, you can't figure out that he carried the bin because bouncing it down those 20 steps would be even more frustrating?
@@davidjorgensen877 easier than carrying it. rolling friction is great
@@berengerchristy6256 If you're a weakling, otherwise, no. Friction ain't the problem, it's the incessant bouncing.
I live in a more rural town in the Netherlands, we do still have a garbage roster, some days only the green bin, some days only plastic and some days only grey, but the main reason why this isn't a big problem for us is because we don't have trash panda's, as long as you close the lid of the bin there's no problem, we do have 1 central glass container and we have one of these central garbage collector units next to an apartment building, which makes sense 'cause they haven't got space for separate bins per apartment.
In Rome (and in all Italy as far as I can tell), we have huge public bins that get emptied once periodically, so no garbage day either. Luckily we don't have raccoons, althought some poor people look for salvage sometimes. Plus when there is a delay in the cleaning service, people tend to throw the trash outside (which made for some "nice" christmas postcards, just awful). When I moved to Tarragona (Spain) and discovered the underground bin I was amazed. So elegant and clean. Althought some of them still tend to smell (probably due the fact that during summer it gets pretty hot).
lol In Rome you are lucky if they aren't striking
Hmm... here in Asturias we have underground containers but only for the recycling trash. General purpose ones are containers and they are picked up every day. They never get truly smelly.
bruh what do you mean we literally have wild boars in Rome
0:30 Taiwanese kids be like... ICECREAM!!. seconds later.... ahhh damm
Ice cream carts actually use a horn with a pretty unique sound in Taiwan
@@fucku123hugo I'm more surprised that they actually exist. I always assumed that ice cream trucks are an american invention.
@Conor Hampton plot twist: Taiwanese kids bringing garbage bags to an ice cream truck in USA.
@@fucku123hugo you must be fun at party's
Meh, I'd probably get a couple of scoops anyway.
I think there is a reason why parents keep the garbage bin the garage until the night before garbage day.
In Rwanda, the garbage men knock on your door and pick up the trash from your house, in my neighborhood they come on Mondays at 7am. Very convenient.
In Ireland we make people feel better about having to go to the nearest recycling place by calling them Bottle Banks "No its not a Recycling Bin, its a bottle bank! you're donating to the bottle factories! how nice of you!"
For a while they had this in the US, but would pay you for “donating.”
@@KRYMauL I think we have it here in Canada, and the pay is only like a few cents.
@@KRYMauL no, you got the money back you had already paid. It was 10 cents in california and 5 in oregon, basically you paid extra for every can and bottle you bought, and then got the money back as a credit note for the shop when you put it in the machine. recyling day meant lots of poor people did the rounds and took bottle and cans out of trash cans so they could redeem them and buy food. no idea if it is still a thing. I Haven't lived in the US for 12 years.
@@ForeverNeverwhere1 It's not uncommon for plastic and glass bottles to still have the printing on them for the refunds. Whether the refund programs are still active or not I don't know, I don't live in either one of those states.
In Australia, we pay people for depositing their recyclable bottles.
Years back my brother went to Austria to attend a medical conference, & when he came back we were so eager for him to tell us about the wonders he saw in Europe, but the thing he was the most fascinated about was their garbage system (which is similar to what you showed)
So yeah it's a pretty cool system especially coming from a country where if a plot of land is empty for more than a week it becomes a trash dump
Which country is that?
@@CriticalPosthumanism **sigh of shame** Iraq
In Austria? we have a garbage day but mayby not the same way like amerika. you pay the garbage can with the local rate. you can decide how often the come (once a week 2 or only all 4 weeks) and only residual waste or with plastic or with biological waste. there many place where you can bring your waste(only recicling not residual). but we have not really problems with animals.
i wish new york city would implement this. i love how walkable, bikeable, and public-transit-able it is here, but i can’t stand the mountains of trash that fill up the sidewalks.
I haven't travelled a lot, but the only places where I have seen garbage being collected only once a week, were small villages or villa zones, meant for no permanent living. Here in Sofia we don't really have fancy underground bins, but the normal ones are emptied every day. We have a couple of them for every apartment building because you know, a regular family makes at least a bag of garbage every day or two. I personally can't imagine having to wait a whole week with smelly garbage just to be able to get rid of it. It sounds insane!
However this is relevant, and not always the best solutions. Since Amsterdam is an overpopulated city, the trash is also huge, so huge that these underground bins are fully overloaded in no time, and the trash gets left outside the bin, causing huge rat investations
@Denam an excellent comment, this was the best response possible
I think most canadian communities would need a lot of convincing for people to throw their trash out a block from their house in winter compared to leaving it out once a week, even if in the other 3 seasons you have to deal with trash pandas if you can't effectively ward them off in your area.
A block is a bit much yeah. A few hundred meters for an entire apartment complex here in Norway in the writer is just fine tho.
Depends how much they could reduce the bill. Garbage pickup in my city comes to about 50 bucks a month. I’d walk a block for some of that back
@@shogged taxes though. Paid by my communist taxes, dude. No bills, no worries. Wonder how much I "pay" if you break it down?
Magnus Winther would be cool to find out, I’m sure there are savings from needing less trucks/drivers, but carrying garbage a block might also encourage people to reduce their total waste. Could be savings at the landfill as well
@@shogged we also separate plastic and food waste in their own bags, which means it takes a little longer before you have to go out
I used to live in a couple of condos in Canada that had garbage chutes. You made me realize how much I miss those.
"Taking out the garbage is a bizarre topic for a youtube video"
After watching HowToBasic since 2017, nothing is off the table for me anymore.
I live in greater São Paulo and in my city we have trash collection 3 times a week, plus recycling collection in the other 2 days remaining. That Toronto’s schedule is a little weird because you’ve to keep your trash in your home for a really time.
But, about the garbage container in Amsterdam: simply genius. I hope this trend grows worldwide.
"They have Huge bins"
**Caries a standard sized bin everyone in Britain has.**
Fr, I live in California and ours are fucking massive compared to the ones he showed
@@witssen9954 - Yep, they make 'em a lot bigger than the ones he showed.
...and it has wheels smh what a pleb.
Maybe he means - they are huge when you're thinking about the waist bins that you would uside *inside* the house?
@@JoseARomo-qv5fk Mfs trash cans are smaller than a kitchen one
Speaking of Trash Panda's, I just found your channel a couple of days ago and I've been rummaging through your videos and binge watching them. Thank you for what your doing and how you have contributed to a better World. 😀👍❤
Why does it feel like Amsterdam has it all figured out, meanwhile, the "most powerful country in the world" is still living in the stone age?
found on Twitter Quote of the day: “There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.” Yellowstone Park Ranger on why it is hard to design a bear-proof garbage can."
thank you.
I don't get it, what do the dumbest tourists do that is similar to smart bears? Eat trash?
@@gertrudesuzan9253 I think they make unfortunate comments on UA-cam.
@@gertrudesuzan9253 If the garbage can is designed for smarter people, the dumber wouldn't be able to use it. So it needs to be simple enough but that means bears can open then also.
this is often the problem with our societies. Weakest links ruin the whole chain ;)
Honestly, the concept of "garbage day" is something foreign to me. Garbage is picked by trucks daily where I live and I was uttey shocked to learn that in some countries it is only picked once a week or so.
How much garbage do you have o.0
Once a week is all we need where I live.
Same
In New York City, they don't even pick up the garbage. It just stays on the streets.
Still happen of course in mostly suburban areas and smaller towns.
Lmao. It's picked up only once a month where I live. And I live in a relatively expensive area.
We’re travelling in Kalamata, Greece right now and it seems like the garbage bins are kept below ground here too - though they don’t seem as high-tech as in the video and we’re still waiting to see how they are emptied.
I remember seeing this system in Spain back in the late 90s (must have been one of the first places to do it?) and was really impressed. It was also all separated for recycling, which coming from 90s regional Australia was a bit of an eye opener.
I'm so jealous. We have 3 separate days for compost, recycling and garbage where I live, so the street is almost always filled with crap.
Also it is easier to recycle mixed waste if it is "fresher", especially compostables.
U not gonna recycle compostables
@@kids6250 It is used to make flower soil, which is sold in big plastic bags in garden centres. You can re-use the compostables to grow flowers and plants in your house or garden :)
The fact that they're *introducing* trash bins with garbage days in some parts of my city, replacing the good ol' big containers 💀
Where's the rest of your sentence?
@@bclaus0 gone, reduced to atoms
Am i the only one who thinks that this is good but needs a way to avoid people "accidentaly" dumping living animals inside?
I thought exactly the same when I saw the trash compactor part! There are some monsters out there who would do that for sure
I hate that that was my thought too. Hopefully they don’t have many cases of that. Just last week a local rescue was dealing with dumped puppies without a mother, thankfully someone found them.