I swear when my Mom sees someone is putting out rubbish and it's not the day before she just assumes that person knows more than her and puts hers out too 😁
I can counter that! I’m a German, living in England for about 15 years now. A few years ago I moved in a new flat and took the wrong bin out the night before thanks to habit. I realised it the same night but couldn’t be bothered and left it to the next day in the morning. Well… nearly every house in the street had the same (wrong) bin out. Only 2 houses knew better. I did switch mine but I seriously considered moving for quite a while after 😅
@@marcelbpunkt at least as long I’m living here, and best thing is, where I live now they have exactly the same system as I had in Germany growing up. Only the colours are different
@@marcelbpunktDifferent council areas have different rules, but most places at least require you to separate rubbish into recyclables and non-recyclables.
Okay so I AM GERMAN, and here is the EXPLANATION to why this is happening: most people don’t download the official planner. They will just watch their neighbours. I was literally always THE ONLY ONE to have that planner printed out. Some people I talked to didn‘t even know about the downloadable planner 😅 So when one starts to put out the trash can… everyone else follows their guide 😂
I'm German. My guess is as follows. The first guy puts it out early because he might leave for vacation or something. I think its not peer pressure but herd instinct. Other guys think they forgot and put the sacks out as well without checking calender first.
This also works as a prank. :P Just remember to not place the yellow sacks in front of your house etc. and that noone sees you doing it. Works almost every time ^^'
In india you don't care about the neighbours or civics law on how you cause them discomfort as long as you're rich and have connections with bureaucrats and politicians. Our neighbours have open drainage with sewer watering getting into them coming out of their houses along with plastic wrappers that they throw in them , they are not connected to sewage system like everybody else because they don't trust the pipes and don't care , they push all the sewere and plastic wrapped garbage towards us as our house is on a slop , they don't even let us install do something about it, because they think they own the city.
I always see the disappointment on my husband's face when our retired neighbor gets to mow his yard on a Friday while we are at work. 😂 He wants so badly to be first!
I imported this peer pressure to London. Around 10 years ago we actually had some proper snow in London, which stayed on the ground for 3 weeks. Now I’ve lived Uk /Germany 50/50 all my life and have certain habits I’ve acquired from both countries. So of course I go out and clear the snow from my part of the pavement, have neighbors walking past me commending me on my neighborly behavior. By the evening over half the street was cleared, the next day the whole street was cleared, with nighbours clearing pavements either side of theirs for elderly. We were the only street in the whole of London that was snow free on the pavements. It brought the whole neighborhood together with everyone winking and smiling at each other for months thereafter. Glorious 😊
I wish that worked in America. Many a year our condo building in New England was the only one that cleared the sidewalk and laid down de-icer on our section of the block. Despite the city fining building owners, because most of the landlords either were not in state or were Trusts owned by foreign Real estate companies speculating in property and had no caretakers. They just wrote the fines off as expenses.
@@josephteller9715 in Germany you’re obliged, by law, to clear and quick, de-ice ur part of the pavement/sidewalk by a certain time of the day. If not and someone slips.. u might be liable - to an extent. Thus everyone in Germany does their little bit which in turn is good for the community and saves costs for all too
It's easier for me to look out my window and see which bin my 80 y.o. neighbour is putting out than to remember the bin schedule. He hasn't let me down yet.
Sometimes. Sometimes not. In some cities, there are places where you'll see mountains of bags for multiple days (atleast from what I've seen, being a Dienstleister always driving around.
I moved to Hesse. No more "Yellow Sacks / Gelbe Säcke". We have proper bins here for plastic garbage. Looks much better and these things don't really happen. Wish the whole of Germany would adept, much better.
Nachbarstadt von uns hat sowohl Säcke als auch Tonnen. Darfst auch nur Säcke in die Tonnen schmeißen. Eigentlich sollten die Tonnen ja die säcke einsparen, aber die Stadt steckt in nem 10 Jahres Vertrag fest oder so xD
I live in a small town in Canada. I have a German friend. We were walking home at around 3 AM after a party. Not a car on the road. My friend said he's lived here so long, he's gone native, he doesn't think like a German any more. Then a cyclist rode by and went through a red light. Remember, not a car to be seen anywhere. My friend stands in the middle of the street, at 3 AM, yelling at the guy that he should obey the traffic signals. Tell me again how you're not German any more, Jürgen lol
Breaking the rules encourages a person to pick up a bad habit and sets a bad example for everyone around them, so it's important to break the rules only when absolutely necessary, not when it's convenient.
Rules are rules buddy. I still hate the guy with a burning passion who almost hit me on crosswalk early in morning with full speed while there was no other car.
On my street in Scotland, no one remembers whether it's recycling or rubbish. We all rely on the first person to bring out a bin. But if someone else also brings out the opposite bin, there is either an awkward stand-off with just the 2 opposing bins or a passive-aggressive showdown, where everyone takes sides.
That’s insane we have our trash picked up once a week on Tuesday mornings and every town and city has a recycling bin and trash bin they both go out on the same day at the same time because they get picked up within like 30 minutes of each other. They have multiple trash trucks and they each have their own routs to take and it’s extremely efficient.
@@PTSeTeGerman and efficiency is the biggest myth on earth. The entire country thrives on inefficient and pointless rules, Karen behavior, and hive mentality.
I study social psychology and this is such a fun practical example of what I'm learning about in class. In psychology, they call it pluralistic ignorance and it's when everyone thinks everyone else knows what they're doing and then everyone ends up doing something wrong because they all followed the incorrect behaviour of the first person putting out their trash on the wrong day
you can call that "herd drive / herd mentality / herd instinct" - that's the easier explanation for people, who brainlessly do the same thing others do - even when it might be wrong.
@@crashoverride6413 true, except herd mentality is a somewhat controversial concept in social psychology. It's not exactly that people do something brainlessly, they often just don't have enough information to make the correct decision themselves and thus follow someone else that they believe is doing the right thing. In most situations copying others ends perfectly well, but sometimes it goes very wrong
I did that once, too. Our yellow bags were taken on Friday per fortnight, but I had a planned hospital trip for at least a week starting Monday that week. So I put them out Sunday afternoon at our collecting place. And funny enough, in the evening several other bags found their way to this place, too.
That happens in my village, 1 person puts out the wrong bin and everyone else questions themselves and puts it out too just to be safe despite a clear schedule from the council 😂
We had that once too. A neighbor messed up the date and put the bin out one afternoon on the completely wrong day (it's always the same weekday, and this was not that day). By dinnertime the whole street had put them out, the next morning it had spread to three neighboring streets as well. (And come afternoon there was a lot of anger and embarrassment because obviously they were still full😂)
Here in Germany there apparently is one person in this town who goes around sticking little flags into dog poop that say "This is not a dog toilet" or "Would *you* like this in front of your house?"
It's usually because sometimes the trash collection is scheduled irregularly because of past or upcoming public holidays, and people are too lazy to look it up. So the person who started was probably going to be absent on the actual collection day, so they put it out, then somebody else though "Oh is it an off-schedule week again" and put theirs out too, others seeing it "Oh is it due again?" and so the whole chain reaction starts.
Actually, the first person probably was going on vacation for a few weeks and didn't want to miss trash day. Therefore putting it out early, and others got worried they missed it, so they just followed.
Where I live (Oviedo, Asturias, Spain), every day (except Sundays) trucks come to all streets to deliver trash cans, of the appropiate colours for recycling that are available that day (and a black one for whatever/organic), usually around 6~7 p.m.. The colours depend on the day of the week (idk the order, but it hasn't changed in, like, forever, I have a cooler magnet with it), and the trash cans are taken back by the trucks during night (~2 a.m. I believe), alobg with watever trash didn't fit and was left beside them. Since trash cans are already coloured, most trash bags you see are black, no special colours needed. There's also some trash containers that are always there, even some for recycling, in some parts of the city, usually not directly next to homes. So we don't really have this problem ;). Still, much fewer people take recycling seriously, in my understanding. Nice vid Also, sry for bad English.
We have big bins in Poland where you put the bags whenever you want. They are in closed, separate rooms, so the bags dont destroy the look of your surroundings
@@00Mali00 We have the same deal in Finland, and the point is that you place recycled stuff on different bins.. Like glass goes for glass bin, metal for metal bin, paper for paper etc.. The whole point is to make recycling easier
@@00Mali00 how can you say that? It's way better to have big containers for separate types of trash gathered in these "houses" available all the time, than a need to remember a schedule and then have bags just lying on the streets.
@@Pepegalord There is one family that is always the first and after they have put out their trash, all other families follow within the next few houres. Of course you're right: _Maybe_ they just happen to use the app right after that family has put out their trash, for 15 years straight, every two weeks
Thanks for putting a sub caption for Deutsch! I took five years of it in high school and college, but believe it or not you never get a chance to use it in the Midwestern US. It helps jog my memory a bit!
This is a universal human response. Every American suburb times their bins on the curb to the one overzealous neighbor and if they forget the whole block forgets.
The city I lived in didn't have a lot of alleyways so garbage was collected at the front of the house. Collection days are set in stone. Then I moved to another part of the country where people have their bins permanently in the back because we have alley access. Collection days are a moving target depending on location and whether there was a holiday. It really bothered me in the beginning until I realized the bins are so big it doesn't really matter like it used to.
I've never experienced that in America. Plus trash is collected weekly, not monthly. I've lived in neighborhoods where it is collected twice a week. I've never seen anyone put their trash out before the night before. Plus the bags must be in a closed bin. A month's worth of trash in bags sitting outside. Oh no.
@@comenowletusreason6330 shrug, where I live one person puts their cans out the night before which lets everyone else know to stick out their cans in the morning. The one time they didn’t people were running in their bathrobes when they heard the truck down the street which is always a fun sight.
This doesn't happen in Canada. If the garbage collection day is Monday morning, and I put my garbage outside of my house on Sunday afternoon, I will be complained about by my neighbors. They said it was too early to do so. We are expected to take out the garbage at night.
Because raccoons. In Toronto we had to have industrial competitions for raccoon proof bin designs. I can't imagine flimsy plastic bags sitting out like that for weeks, regardless of the type of waste, somebody will forget a morsel in there and it will be shredded all over the street.
@packratty I live in the Netherlands and we have the same issue, but with seagulls. The municipality urges people to only put out the garbage bags at 10pm the day before they are collected so the seagulls can't get to them😂
Never hear any complaints in my neighbourhood in Alberta. Currently my street is on Monday day, most people put waste out sometime on Sunday, but I often did on Friday if I am leaving for weekend. We have coyotes in the neighbourhood, so no raccoons :)
Imagine how appalled he’d be if he walked down the street in NYC. Doesn’t matter the garbage man is coming or if he even exists, there’s always 5000 trash bags on the sidewalk.
I never really noticed it until someone at a party told me that NYC smelled like garbage (it was part of a weird pick up line, and ended with that I should come visit him in Chicago where it doesn’t smell like garbage). Anyway, I’ve never been able to shake the fact that there are garbage bags everywhere and it kind of does smell like garbage in summer. I still love NYC though.
@JaneSays it smells like garbage in most ny cities most of the year, not just summer. Lol! (Im.from ny and I love ny, would never move out of state) but yea, it's dirtier than it should be, people just don't care at all if they trash their own neighborhood or others.
@JaneSays na that's only on some rly bad streets, most of NYC doesn't stink. I'm from here born n raised n for some reason my sense of smell is on Crack so trust me lol there's a lottttt of other smells
We had this happening in our city too. Some random guy would put the trash out 1 week in advance and everyone would do the same. After a big storm that made those sacks and the trash fly everywhere, my city decided that now it is forbidden to put the trash out to much in advance. You only can put it outside at 5p.m the day before they collect it. And if they see trash outside before it should be outside you can get a big fine. Now you don't see them till the day before.
My mother does that sometimes when she doesn’t know when the gelbe Säcke Are getting abgeholt. She then just says „when the neighbors got it outside we should put it out too, um sicher zu gehen.“
Haven't looked at our calendar in months. I just look out the window in the evening, and if any of the neighbours have their trash out, I put mine out too.
This happens in our street in Scotland. Everytime my missus puts the bin out the rest of the street has them out in a few hours, even if it’s early, lol
Even here in the states, people will look around the neighborhood like “oh was that today?” And pull their garbage bins out to the road, even if its not for another two days
I really thought this was a German phenomenon. Because here everyone is obsessed with it. Everyone tries to get the most out of one collection and this is even an appropriate conversation
I also see it with mowing your lawn. If someone in the neighborhood does it first, within a day everyone feels obligated to mow their own lawn so it doesn't look like shit next to their neighbor's.
I think somebody really was on vacation for that date, put them out on the street and others did just the same because they didn‘t remember the day the sacks get collected. So, not peer pressure.
Here in Australia in my street this I find to be the exact same. If one person puts out the bin a couple of nights before the whole neighbourhood puts them out. One time I put the wrong colour recycling bin out and everyone got mistaken and we had a good laugh at it coz no one’s bins got collected that week. Now I have a calendar prompt to not make the mistake again. This is a nice experience to work as a community I think.
Where I live we have a similar system of garbage collecting. One day the exact same situation happened.Garbage collection was scheduled for two days later. one of the neighbors put the bags out earlier, the rest of the neighbors did the same. Thanks to this, the garbage collectors arrived a day earlier.
My father always told me it’s forbidden to put out the rubbish bags and containers more than one day before they’re getting collected. So I’m a little confused now 😄
You really aren't supposed to. I don't know if it is a fineable offense but you shouldn't do it regardless. That is just an invitation for wild animals to rip them apart. And then they won't be taken away. Remember people, wild boars and raccoons love trash
@@anna-flora999 they can still smell the food residue. My Landkreis switched from bags to bin last year because it was a huge problem that animals ripped the bags apart
18:00 on the day before is the earliest you are allowed to put them outside, at least where I live. But no one ever really checks that, it's just a guideline I think^^
As I was watching this, I could feel my face morph into that of the rentner. By the end of the video I shook my head and a barely perceptible grumble escaped my parched scowl
As long as you don't start sorting through your neighbors yellow sacks and drag them back into the house to put in front of their apartment door once you find something that doesn't belong into the recycling like my old landlord in Hanover used to do, you are fine
@@lynnm6413 they'd probably drag me to prison bc unless somebody else in my household is dividing the trash with different bins, I just throw paper, packaging, food etc. in one and then put it in the Restmüll 🫣
@@NorroTaku Wir stammen ja irgendwo alle von dehnen ab daher biste auch einer ;D, wieso sollte ich denn auch den geruch in der Bude haben wollen wenn der Müll auch draußen stehen kann ? Und wenn viele andere ihren Müll am Mittwoch raus stellen, bin aber noch beim Dienstag im Kopf, mach ich mit. ;D
You should see when one farmer brings out the crop machine out for wheat. We regularly did that to check the functions and we were working for a government run testing place with very good reputation. All farmers nearby would drive to the fields and check if wheat, barley and so on we're dry enough for the cropping. They weren't.
If you were in The Netherlands and someone threw the bags improperly, the municipality will actually open the bags and try to find if your three something that identifies you. If they do, you will get a big fat letter with a fine in it 😂
Nah they don't.. Someone decided to throw a black garbage bag in front of the front door to my appartment block, and it sat there for about a week until I decided to throw it in our shared backgarden with the other trash bags that got dumped there, since my container was already full (including the extra bag from someone who tried to sneak a few too many extra bags into mine). Btw I don't live in a big city just a small village in the most southern province.
That what they do whur I live in USA. If it's out more than 2 days, u get fined. It doesn't ever happen except very rarely , however, because even with using big cans that lock, animals will get into them. I don't know how all that trash can be outside there without animals tearing it up ???!! 😮
My grandma's live opposite a guy called Jim. For as long as I can remember they know which bin to put out when according to what Jim does. And if he puts then out early or late, they follow suit. Always.
This is the first vid I've heard you speak. Gotta say I wasn't expecting you to sound so English. It's not bad, just unexpected. Love your content keep up the great work
Happens in the UK, we all have that one neighbour who we watch for them putting bins out, copy what bin they put out. Someone new moves into the street and messes it all up putting bin out early, then we all do it!
There was one time living in NC i lived in an apartment complex with a few hundred people, and the managers of the complex fired the trash removal company and didnt hire a new one, four weeks later everyone in that apartment complex had 5-11 of those bags each, we all took it to the dupster ourselves one day, and with roughly 20 or so trips around the complex with a pickup truck. Brimmed the 10ish yard dumpster filled the 3'x20'x20' area behind the dumpster to the top of the wall, filled both side gaps on the dumpster all 20' high. We filled the entire trash area to the brim with bags, It took them a week to uncover the dumpster again because the dupmster company refused to take it buried. Always had people collecting the trash every other day like they were supposed to after that.
@@GuilhermeOliveira-mi4xw Because any government has been absolute rubbish since Cameron took over. Got worse with every new PM - almost unimaginable, but true. Look at the Brexit mess - economic insanity, political madness, global laughing stock (5 PMs in 6 years, 3 of them unelected). Sunak only gives the impression of competence and sanity - he's not quite as mad as the others, but completely out of his depth.
Here we have a small trash closet/building out the front that the trash collectors can access so we can put out the trash whenever we feel like, without ruining the street for passerbys.
I always check my Abfall-App. And before the Abfall-App we had a little booklet and calendar in which you had a list and stickers and you stuck the right stickers for your street on the calendar so you were able to see the correct dates for your street for the individual types of rubbish (yellow sack, paper and general waste) and they included holiday deviations too
In our area it is not permited to place the trash outside many days before. In the city's regulation for trash it mentions that it can impose fines for that
Oh that’s not peer pressure, that’s herd mentality married to laziness. I for example tend to forget the dates, so sometimes when I see a neighbour putting out the trash rather than looking up the date I just put it out, too…😂😂😂
Everywhere I’ve lived in America they come by once a week to pick up trash and recycling. Same day every week. Can you give me some insight as to what the reasons are for such complexity around garage day in what seems to be many European countries?
@@SWTORLOL87 Well, at least where I live in Germany (Liam’s neck of the woods, actually) we have 4 different trash groups (pre-sorted recycling) and I just can’t be arsed to memorise the cycles, especially since one or two of those groups (see, didn’t memorise) are not picked up weekly but every other week… In that particular regard I’m just a sloth, I guess.
@@-----REDACTED----- dang. With all those taxes you pay you’d think they could afford some of those trucks with multiple compartments and pick it all up once a week at the same time. Of course, I’m not intimately familiar with the logistics of European waste management so maybe this is already the best way.
That would mess me up so bad. On holidays the place where I used to live had a funky system for shifting around trash days so I’d poke my head outside and check up and down the street. If only a couple bins were out, it wasn’t trash day. I learned not to put my bin on the curb on the wrong day because a full trash bin was just too tempting for the wildlife and they’d tear into it.
@@ProWeltfrieden Nop they usually just lay there till the next collection day (usually once all 14 days). At least around here nobody would put them away. Some people put them out earlier due to holidays for example.
plus they are unrecyclyble, like paper, metal, platic, metal, platic, paper, plastik layers in them. pet would be so much better but hey, outsite is paper, cant be that bad.... yes it can. >.
Yeah because the garbage man comes every week. Our trash is taken 52 times a year vs. just 12 in other countries. Although my dad is a garbage man so we've always had the perk of him just taking our trash to work with him whenever. 😅
@D3ViiANT noice. Yeah, I think we in the US probably have a lot more actual rubbish than recycleables to collect. Having dad grab it on the way out sounds pretty sweet tho...ngl.
@Kado yes but I'm sure we pay a lot more also, I send out multiple bins every week that are empty because I pay more then enough so there going to lift every bin I have.
Most cities and counties have strict rules on when you are allowed to put the trash out to the street. From what I have read the range goes from 48h before to the morning of the collection - depending on local rules. Meaning: you could actually report neighbors for putting their trash/gelbe Säcke out too early. And you wouldn't be the bad guy here 🤓
You need a schedule because it's kinda complicated, with different pick-up dates for the "Gelber Sack" (packaging), "Biomüll" (organic waste), "Blaue Tonne" (paper) and "Restmüll" for the rest. If you miss a date, you have to wait weeks for the next pick-up.
In the Netherlands its actually illegal to put the bins out too early. The official rule states that you can put it out no earlier than 7 am the day of pick up, though no one listens to that and most do it the evening before after dinner. And occasionally someone will do it 1 or 2 days earlier if they're out. But that doesn't happen much.
Well a bin is different. But not all cities in Germany have bins for plastic bags (yellow). If you have no bin, but a sack full of stinky plastic garbage (especially in the summer it pretty quickly starts to smell), what do you do with it? Leave it in your flat/apartment?
@@slaveNo-4028 fold open the comment 😜 sometimes they will leave it out a day or so earlier. Or if you're gone for longer, yoi ask your neighbours to do it for you
Where I live, Toronto, we are warned not to put out the bin till 5 pm of previous day of garbage collection. People get mad when someone does it too early. Funny how Canadians have upstaged Germans in this regard.
Not only will the whole street look like a dumpster until they pick it up, but also stray animals are going to have a nice time tearing apart the sacks at night, making the lives of everyone involved harder. Some people at least put them higher up like hanging them from a fence etc.
I love it, when the reason may be many people acting super orderly at the same time, then you hint of many merely being clueless of when the pick-up day is. Touché!
In the Netherlands you're not allowed to put your garbage or paper on the side of the road days before they collect it. I think you can only do it in the early morning of the day the garbage is collected. (At my place you have carbage, paper and glass containers so I can take my garbage outside whenever I want. Unless the containers are full)
I lived in a residential area in Cardiff (capital city of Wales, UK), our recycling was also in sacks like this. Our sacks were collected every week on the same day, most people put the sacks out on the street 1-2 days before collection day, typically 1-2 sacks per house (rather than the whole street piling them in the same place) The point I’m getting towards is, every residential area around the city centre was crawling with huge rats, freaking monstrous they were, the size of two adult guinea pigs stacked head to tail. The rats shredded the sacks open because people are dumb and throw out food in the recycling, and every week was the same, for like 5/7 days every week, there was trash blowing around every street, literally every 1-2 meters you see a piece of litter, until the lone weekly litter-picker comes and does the entire neighbourhood manually (and probably is serving community service- not paid), one piece of trash at a time. 2 days later, people start putting out their sacks again and the cycle continues endlessly. To me this says a lot about the difference between the UK and countries like Germany and much of mainland Europe (mostly Northern Europe tho).. It’s a shit hole in the UK, people totally ignore recycling rules. I know this because I handle some private house share rentals, I see many many people’s recycle bins regularly as I do my job, and I’ve seen stuff that would make most German people’s skin crawl… Literal polystyrene on many occasions, an entire frozen pizza, open half-full bottles of expired milk, mayonnaise, eggs, entire loaves of bread, literal electronic devices like disposable vapes, electronic air fresheners, cables… I see all this and much more every week. I get that it’s gross to have a pile of bin sacks on the street for 1-2 weeks, but man, the fact that you CAN leave bins on the street for that long and no one is freaking out about a rat infestation epidemic, speaks volumes as to how much the waste disposal and recycling rules are respected in Germany, as are many other communal cleanliness rules over there from what I understand, it’s a very hygienic country. Man I should move to Germany, f*ck Brexit for taking away that freedom… Must be nice to live in such a clean and civilised country…
The fact that this bothers him is proof that he has already become a real German.
He channelled his inner Rentner.
Yeah, he should call the Ordnungsamt
Sowas von typisch deutsch von ihm
@@R3tr0humppa 🤣🤣🤣
Einer von uns. Einer von uns.
The person who puts out their trash bins first, we call them a binfluencer.
This comment is severely underrated!
This took me out! 💀
Wow. That is really terrible. I'm very proud of you.
What about the person who puts it out 10 min before the truck arrives? That's me...
You win the best comment lol
Dude probably just went on vacation and wanted to get the trash out. He didn't know he'd start a chain reaction
I swear when my Mom sees someone is putting out rubbish and it's not the day before she just assumes that person knows more than her and puts hers out too 😁
@@yatshie8717same here. Your mom knows whats up
he knew that he'd start a chain reaction, everyone knows that
Yes, you are right. Maybe 4 weeks on vacation and the stuff rotting in your garage!😉 You want to avoid it.
No, this actually happens all across our country. It ensures that we don't accidentally forget it.
I can counter that! I’m a German, living in England for about 15 years now. A few years ago I moved in a new flat and took the wrong bin out the night before thanks to habit. I realised it the same night but couldn’t be bothered and left it to the next day in the morning. Well… nearly every house in the street had the same (wrong) bin out. Only 2 houses knew better. I did switch mine but I seriously considered moving for quite a while after 😅
They separate rubbish there now? 😂
@@marcelbpunkt at least as long I’m living here, and best thing is, where I live now they have exactly the same system as I had in Germany growing up. Only the colours are different
@@daylanerea8735 Nice. I lived there back in 2005 and there just was one bin for everything.
@@marcelbpunktDifferent council areas have different rules, but most places at least require you to separate rubbish into recyclables and non-recyclables.
Scary how everyone just follows along..
Be a true german and call the municipality about it
No. Angrily ring their bell and shove the rubbish inside their house. Than call the police
@@sdh4230 he said to be a true german and not an american Karen...
@@MrJoeDone Americans don't say rubbish
Yes lol you got the citizenship now you have duties ;)
Call, but never email them
Okay so I AM GERMAN, and here is the EXPLANATION to why this is happening: most people don’t download the official planner. They will just watch their neighbours. I was literally always THE ONLY ONE to have that planner printed out. Some people I talked to didn‘t even know about the downloadable planner 😅 So when one starts to put out the trash can… everyone else follows their guide 😂
Omg I had no idea there is a downloadable version and i lived here all my life! Thank you for that tip 😍
The city puts many of them in all the mail boxes for free...
@Antonia xxx exactly. Usually they get mailed once a year, for the while
And the first guy is going on holiday and wants them collected while he's away
That's blasphemous
How could Germans not have every schedule ever??
I'm German. My guess is as follows. The first guy puts it out early because he might leave for vacation or something. I think its not peer pressure but herd instinct. Other guys think they forgot and put the sacks out as well without checking calender first.
i had the same guess
Me too... 😂
I could do a 1935 joke....
Activating the hive mind
This also works as a prank. :P Just remember to not place the yellow sacks in front of your house etc. and that noone sees you doing it.
Works almost every time ^^'
In the US our usual adult peer pressure is mowing your lawn. Or clearing snow depending on what time of year it is.
In Russia you pressure your neighbors to mow your lawn.
Yes!! American here. If I mow my lawn, guaranteed every neighbor in my subdivision will be mowing their yard within minutes!!
In india you don't care about the neighbours or civics law on how you cause them discomfort as long as you're rich and have connections with bureaucrats and politicians. Our neighbours have open drainage with sewer watering getting into them coming out of their houses along with plastic wrappers that they throw in them , they are not connected to sewage system like everybody else because they don't trust the pipes and don't care , they push all the sewere and plastic wrapped garbage towards us as our house is on a slop , they don't even let us install do something about it, because they think they own the city.
I always see the disappointment on my husband's face when our retired neighbor gets to mow his yard on a Friday while we are at work. 😂 He wants so badly to be first!
Or putting up/taking down Christmas lights 😂
I imported this peer pressure to London. Around 10 years ago we actually had some proper snow in London, which stayed on the ground for 3 weeks. Now I’ve lived Uk /Germany 50/50 all my life and have certain habits I’ve acquired from both countries. So of course I go out and clear the snow from my part of the pavement, have neighbors walking past me commending me on my neighborly behavior. By the evening over half the street was cleared, the next day the whole street was cleared, with nighbours clearing pavements either side of theirs for elderly. We were the only street in the whole of London that was snow free on the pavements. It brought the whole neighborhood together with everyone winking and smiling at each other for months thereafter.
Glorious 😊
Like one street in London is now officially Germanized... 😅👍
I absolutely love this comment 😂
I wish that worked in America. Many a year our condo building in New England was the only one that cleared the sidewalk and laid down de-icer on our section of the block. Despite the city fining building owners, because most of the landlords either were not in state or were Trusts owned by foreign Real estate companies speculating in property and had no caretakers. They just wrote the fines off as expenses.
@@josephteller9715 in Germany you’re obliged, by law, to clear and quick, de-ice ur part of the pavement/sidewalk by a certain time of the day. If not and someone slips.. u might be liable - to an extent.
Thus everyone in Germany does their little bit which in turn is good for the community and saves costs for all too
Well, instead of being bothered by them sitting at home, now it’s others’ problem 😅
It's easier for me to look out my window and see which bin my 80 y.o. neighbour is putting out than to remember the bin schedule. He hasn't let me down yet.
That's the grumpy guy from his other videos, right?
He’ll not be around forever… better be prepared and find yourself a second Rentner!
"...there no Problems, there only solutions.."
Same here 😂😂
You don’t need to remember it. Just check it once in a while.
"Do they collect the yellow sack tomorrow?"
"don't know. Did some neighbour put it out yet?"
"yes."
"then i guess so"
Literally this. It's one guy in every street who watches the calendar and everyone else just follows.
This is the correct answer.
"Oh look, all the other neighbours put out the yellow sacks already as well. So if they all do it it can't be wrong."
guess who is the one person who started this .. ( music on,😏 )
Why is there a chart for the right garbage can. Germans over engineering again
I love your calendar with the different garbage cans! It shows how it regulates your life. 😅
Sometimes, the Abfallkalender isn’t correct. You have to check in the Amtsblättchen when they collect it. Or just watch what your neighbour is doing.
Sometimes. Sometimes not.
In some cities, there are places where you'll see mountains of bags for multiple days (atleast from what I've seen, being a Dienstleister always driving around.
Doesn't work if the neighbour just does whatever.
Doesn't work if the neighbour just does whatever.
Amtsblättchen! 🫣😂👍🏼
Never happend where I live.
In Japan they have the same garbage system, but if you put your trash out early and someone sees you, you will get yelled at by your local old person
😂😂😂😂❤
They take their recycling sorting very serious as well. If you incorrectly sort your stuff your neighbour’s will judge tf out of you😂
@@Hoodie-K Yeah! I wish America was at least half as strict with their garbage disposal
Old people in Germany are also not shy to scold you. They were the ones who were enforcing masks on trains and metros
I lived in Japan for 4 years...I can vouch for that :-)
Holy fuck mans consulting a spreadsheet to take out his trash. Possibly the most German thing ever
recycling is national sport here.
I even have it on my mobile... lol
We have that in Belgium too, but normally each year you get your own calendar book.
@@gevorgvanarmenie9788 considering Belgium isn’t real that’s awfully strange
@@alek1766 Wait, am I a fake citizen of a fake country? My whole life is a lie?
I moved to Hesse. No more "Yellow Sacks / Gelbe Säcke". We have proper bins here for plastic garbage. Looks much better and these things don't really happen. Wish the whole of Germany would adept, much better.
This is what I was looking for, wtf is a yellow sack?! So yall have to sort your recycling..I don’t miss that.
We don't have the gelbe Säcke anymore, we now have the gelbe Tonne.
Da ist bei uns schon das gleich passiert: einer stellt die Tonne zu früh raus und die halbe Straße macht es nach :-)
Nachbarstadt von uns hat sowohl Säcke als auch Tonnen. Darfst auch nur Säcke in die Tonnen schmeißen. Eigentlich sollten die Tonnen ja die säcke einsparen, aber die Stadt steckt in nem 10 Jahres Vertrag fest oder so xD
@@einstapelwasserDeutschland at its best
We now have the gelbbedeckelte schwarze Tonne 😀
Wir haben eine schwarze Tonne für den Restmüll(in München)
I live in a small town in Canada. I have a German friend. We were walking home at around 3 AM after a party. Not a car on the road. My friend said he's lived here so long, he's gone native, he doesn't think like a German any more. Then a cyclist rode by and went through a red light. Remember, not a car to be seen anywhere. My friend stands in the middle of the street, at 3 AM, yelling at the guy that he should obey the traffic signals. Tell me again how you're not German any more, Jürgen lol
Damn he must be from the country side, in bigger city basically every german does the red light crossing 😂
@@hypnotize107 I'm not so sure. In Munich the looks i got...
yeah many Germans ignore the red lights when there are no cars and the road is free.
Breaking the rules encourages a person to pick up a bad habit and sets a bad example for everyone around them, so it's important to break the rules only when absolutely necessary, not when it's convenient.
Rules are rules buddy. I still hate the guy with a burning passion who almost hit me on crosswalk early in morning with full speed while there was no other car.
On my street in Scotland, no one remembers whether it's recycling or rubbish. We all rely on the first person to bring out a bin. But if someone else also brings out the opposite bin, there is either an awkward stand-off with just the 2 opposing bins or a passive-aggressive showdown, where everyone takes sides.
I love the way your brain thinks this out. This is exactly how I’d perceive it
Hahaha this is hilarious!!!
Same in Australia 😂
Culloden of the Cans, lol!
That’s insane we have our trash picked up once a week on Tuesday mornings and every town and city has a recycling bin and trash bin they both go out on the same day at the same time because they get picked up within like 30 minutes of each other. They have multiple trash trucks and they each have their own routs to take and it’s extremely efficient.
I was just thinking the same, once a month? Hell to the "German efficiency"
You only have two types of bins? Animals!!
@PTSeTe Right! Where do you store a month's worth of trash? Doesn't it start to stink?
@@PTSeTeGerman and efficiency is the biggest myth on earth. The entire country thrives on inefficient and pointless rules, Karen behavior, and hive mentality.
@@spillingthetea2519 according to this video, apparently they just throw it outside like they live in Philadelphia (Filthadelphia) or something
I study social psychology and this is such a fun practical example of what I'm learning about in class. In psychology, they call it pluralistic ignorance and it's when everyone thinks everyone else knows what they're doing and then everyone ends up doing something wrong because they all followed the incorrect behaviour of the first person putting out their trash on the wrong day
Like when a whole class stands in front of an open door assuming it’s locked because the first person didn’t try to open the door
you can call that "herd drive / herd mentality / herd instinct" - that's the easier explanation for people, who brainlessly do the same thing others do - even when it might be wrong.
@@crashoverride6413 true, except herd mentality is a somewhat controversial concept in social psychology. It's not exactly that people do something brainlessly, they often just don't have enough information to make the correct decision themselves and thus follow someone else that they believe is doing the right thing. In most situations copying others ends perfectly well, but sometimes it goes very wrong
Is there a way to avoid situations like such?
@@ayeshaimranxyes, always check an original source on the matter. People have the internet in their palms, it's so easy nowadays.
"This neighbour must know something I missed... better join his schedule..."
I did that once, too. Our yellow bags were taken on Friday per fortnight, but I had a planned hospital trip for at least a week starting Monday that week. So I put them out Sunday afternoon at our collecting place. And funny enough, in the evening several other bags found their way to this place, too.
Plottwist: You're the reason he made this video
Well.... The sanitation people will see them in advance and have an idea on how many cars should they send when the time comes....logic, no?
I love these videos with subtitles. They help a lot
That happens in my village, 1 person puts out the wrong bin and everyone else questions themselves and puts it out too just to be safe despite a clear schedule from the council 😂
Just put all the Trash out just to be safe. But the next Blaue Tonne and Gelber Sack isn't until next Month. Sicher is Sicher...
I love this😂😂😂😂 I wish this happened in my town
We had that once too. A neighbor messed up the date and put the bin out one afternoon on the completely wrong day (it's always the same weekday, and this was not that day). By dinnertime the whole street had put them out, the next morning it had spread to three neighboring streets as well.
(And come afternoon there was a lot of anger and embarrassment because obviously they were still full😂)
In Canada where I am, you get passive aggressive sticky notes on your garbage saying "today is not garbage day" if you put it out too soon 😂
Here in Germany there apparently is one person in this town who goes around sticking little flags into dog poop that say "This is not a dog toilet" or "Would *you* like this in front of your house?"
@@99xara99 okay, that's hilarious 😂😂
@@Mishyou33 it is until you end up having a conversation with such a person 😂
In Spokane WA, where I am, you just get your trash turned over and riffled through by tweakers 😮
@@99xara99 Make some that say “this one wasn’t the dog” lol
I like how you speak in your accent😂😂
New Yorkers: “that’s the cleanest street I’ve seen!”😱😱😱😱😱😱
Philadelphians: you jawns have clean streets?
That's because NYC trash collection has been part of organized crime from the 1800s!!!
@@abcw114 Europeans: " I think they misunderstood the meaning of a word "Clean".
You win the comments for this video, Alex. 🏆
Eastern Germans: why the fuck are there garbage bags 🤢
It's usually because sometimes the trash collection is scheduled irregularly because of past or upcoming public holidays, and people are too lazy to look it up. So the person who started was probably going to be absent on the actual collection day, so they put it out, then somebody else though "Oh is it an off-schedule week again" and put theirs out too, others seeing it "Oh is it due again?" and so the whole chain reaction starts.
People are far too trusting
@@Olter_ well, the müllabfuhr (rubbish guys) in my hometown is pretty well organized and they come every time pünktlich laut Abfallkalender.
Mfg
Actually, the first person probably was going on vacation for a few weeks and didn't want to miss trash day. Therefore putting it out early, and others got worried they missed it, so they just followed.
so true. i never ever check the rubbish calendar, i just put out the yellow sacks when my neighbors do. 😄
Where I live (Oviedo, Asturias, Spain), every day (except Sundays) trucks come to all streets to deliver trash cans, of the appropiate colours for recycling that are available that day (and a black one for whatever/organic), usually around 6~7 p.m.. The colours depend on the day of the week (idk the order, but it hasn't changed in, like, forever, I have a cooler magnet with it), and the trash cans are taken back by the trucks during night (~2 a.m. I believe), alobg with watever trash didn't fit and was left beside them. Since trash cans are already coloured, most trash bags you see are black, no special colours needed. There's also some trash containers that are always there, even some for recycling, in some parts of the city, usually not directly next to homes. So we don't really have this problem ;). Still, much fewer people take recycling seriously, in my understanding.
Nice vid
Also, sry for bad English.
We have big bins in Poland where you put the bags whenever you want. They are in closed, separate rooms, so the bags dont destroy the look of your surroundings
That is for regular trash. You don't t recycle much there, do you?
@@00Mali00 We have the same deal in Finland, and the point is that you place recycled stuff on different bins..
Like glass goes for glass bin, metal for metal bin, paper for paper etc.. The whole point is to make recycling easier
@@00Mali00 in Poland trash is segregated - these separate rooms/small houses for trash have 6 segregation types inside
Yes I'm confused, bc it's always been this way for me in Germany where I live. Just one bin extra for yellow sack
@@00Mali00 how can you say that? It's way better to have big containers for separate types of trash gathered in these "houses" available all the time, than a need to remember a schedule and then have bags just lying on the streets.
My mom literally has no idea when to put the trash outside, so she copies our neighbours (we live in Germany)
Life hack, I do the same xD
we've been doing that for 15 years and I'm pretty sure the entire street copies that one family
@@jankisi or they just use the app...
@@Pepegalord There is one family that is always the first and after they have put out their trash, all other families follow within the next few houres.
Of course you're right:
_Maybe_ they just happen to use the app right after that family has put out their trash, for 15 years straight, every two weeks
Aber einen Kalender habt ihr, oder? Gibt es eventuell auch online
Ask 4 Italians when the yellow sacks are collected, you'll get 6 different answers 💀
Same in germany, no one really knows, we just go with the flow 😂
Thanks for putting a sub caption for Deutsch! I took five years of it in high school and college, but believe it or not you never get a chance to use it in the Midwestern US. It helps jog my memory a bit!
This is a universal human response. Every American suburb times their bins on the curb to the one overzealous neighbor and if they forget the whole block forgets.
No
The city I lived in didn't have a lot of alleyways so garbage was collected at the front of the house. Collection days are set in stone. Then I moved to another part of the country where people have their bins permanently in the back because we have alley access. Collection days are a moving target depending on location and whether there was a holiday. It really bothered me in the beginning until I realized the bins are so big it doesn't really matter like it used to.
Something about that is just really cute to me. Like, they're just a bunch of little goobers copying each other!
I've never experienced that in America. Plus trash is collected weekly, not monthly. I've lived in neighborhoods where it is collected twice a week. I've never seen anyone put their trash out before the night before. Plus the bags must be in a closed bin. A month's worth of trash in bags sitting outside. Oh no.
@@comenowletusreason6330 shrug, where I live one person puts their cans out the night before which lets everyone else know to stick out their cans in the morning. The one time they didn’t people were running in their bathrobes when they heard the truck down the street which is always a fun sight.
You are now officially a true German.
No, a true German knows that peer pressure is when you just follow orders in the 1930s and 1940s
This doesn't happen in Canada. If the garbage collection day is Monday morning, and I put my garbage outside of my house on Sunday afternoon, I will be complained about by my neighbors. They said it was too early to do so. We are expected to take out the garbage at night.
Because raccoons. In Toronto we had to have industrial competitions for raccoon proof bin designs. I can't imagine flimsy plastic bags sitting out like that for weeks, regardless of the type of waste, somebody will forget a morsel in there and it will be shredded all over the street.
@packratty I live in the Netherlands and we have the same issue, but with seagulls. The municipality urges people to only put out the garbage bags at 10pm the day before they are collected so the seagulls can't get to them😂
I'm in BC...forget raccoons. BEARS
@stillhuntre55 Exactly. You get fined putting them put early where I live in BC because of bears 🐻
Never hear any complaints in my neighbourhood in Alberta. Currently my street is on Monday day, most people put waste out sometime on Sunday, but I often did on Friday if I am leaving for weekend. We have coyotes in the neighbourhood, so no raccoons :)
Probably the most people don't check when it's due. They just look "yep there lies the gelbe Sack again I'll throw mine out too."
Thats me 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Imagine how appalled he’d be if he walked down the street in NYC. Doesn’t matter the garbage man is coming or if he even exists, there’s always 5000 trash bags on the sidewalk.
I never really noticed it until someone at a party told me that NYC smelled like garbage (it was part of a weird pick up line, and ended with that I should come visit him in Chicago where it doesn’t smell like garbage). Anyway, I’ve never been able to shake the fact that there are garbage bags everywhere and it kind of does smell like garbage in summer. I still love NYC though.
Same in London 🤣
@JaneSays it smells like garbage in most ny cities most of the year, not just summer. Lol! (Im.from ny and I love ny, would never move out of state) but yea, it's dirtier than it should be, people just don't care at all if they trash their own neighborhood or others.
@JaneSays na that's only on some rly bad streets, most of NYC doesn't stink. I'm from here born n raised n for some reason my sense of smell is on Crack so trust me lol there's a lottttt of other smells
@@steph8703 I’m also born and raised in NYC. We can have different opinions!
We had this happening in our city too. Some random guy would put the trash out 1 week in advance and everyone would do the same. After a big storm that made those sacks and the trash fly everywhere, my city decided that now it is forbidden to put the trash out to much in advance. You only can put it outside at 5p.m the day before they collect it. And if they see trash outside before it should be outside you can get a big fine. Now you don't see them till the day before.
we have this too in england, i have no clue what day we put the bins out i just trust that someone else on my street knows and i can follow them
Just the fear of missing the right day or reading the calendar wrong :D So just do what your neighbors are doing, I totally can relate :D
It's not peer pressure, it's swarm "intelligence" 😅😂
/swarm stupidity 😆
This explains nazism
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@fmango no, no it doesn't
@@fmango Ffs
My mother does that sometimes when she doesn’t know when the gelbe Säcke Are getting abgeholt. She then just says „when the neighbors got it outside we should put it out too, um sicher zu gehen.“
Best Post für immer.
I really like this channel thingy whatever. Its so funny showing the difference between us British and German people 😊
Haven't looked at our calendar in months. I just look out the window in the evening, and if any of the neighbours have their trash out, I put mine out too.
In the Netherlands this is actively illegal and will get you fined hundreds of Euro's.
In Germany it is illegal, too, to put them out too early. Ordnungsamt will have fun
As it should be, this is just stupid!
Very true.
They're a bit more relaxed with the wheelie bins though
It's the same in Germany (illegal use of sidewalk), but it's not often fined.
Here in Belgium we just get annoyed when someone puts their garbage out more than a day before they come to collect it.
There are fines for that in Belgium
@@larsvd5354 I was going to say the same thing 😂 it's only allowed after 7pm the evening before. Strange that Germany doesn't have this ruling.
the first guy probably went on vacation or something.
This happens in our street in Scotland. Everytime my missus puts the bin out the rest of the street has them out in a few hours, even if it’s early, lol
its so crazy, when i moved out of germany and realised that like its not so serious with the trash everywhere i was so surprised
Germany is worldwide number 1 in recycling and our need to be efficient at all times makes the whole process uniquely German.
@@solala1312 still allegedly not as good as we (like to) think.
I like this kind of casual talking video style too!
Even here in the states, people will look around the neighborhood like “oh was that today?” And pull their garbage bins out to the road, even if its not for another two days
It's the same in The Netherlands ;)
Its how I check what recycling to put out, instead of checking the calendar
I really thought this was a German phenomenon.
Because here everyone is obsessed with it. Everyone tries to get the most out of one collection and this is even an appropriate conversation
I also see it with mowing your lawn. If someone in the neighborhood does it first, within a day everyone feels obligated to mow their own lawn so it doesn't look like shit next to their neighbor's.
I think somebody really was on vacation for that date, put them out on the street and others did just the same because they didn‘t remember the day the sacks get collected. So, not peer pressure.
Of course peer pressure!
@@brera2434 peer pressure would be letting trash accumulate in your house, because you missed the take out date
And because one person screwed the system, the others mindlessly followed. XD
It happens here too. It's that "somebody must know something we don't" vibe.
Here in Australia in my street this I find to be the exact same. If one person puts out the bin a couple of nights before the whole neighbourhood puts them out. One time I put the wrong colour recycling bin out and everyone got mistaken and we had a good laugh at it coz no one’s bins got collected that week. Now I have a calendar prompt to not make the mistake again. This is a nice experience to work as a community I think.
Gday mate, another australian
When the whole neighborhood depends on one person 😂😂
More of these real life videos please, I love them :D
Liam, "I don't know why but I just thought it was hilarious!" Reason: Liam is permanently HAPPY!
Where I live we have a similar system of garbage collecting. One day the exact same situation happened.Garbage collection was scheduled for two days later. one of the neighbors put the bags out earlier, the rest of the neighbors did the same. Thanks to this, the garbage collectors arrived a day earlier.
My father always told me it’s forbidden to put out the rubbish bags and containers more than one day before they’re getting collected. So I’m a little confused now 😄
You really aren't supposed to. I don't know if it is a fineable offense but you shouldn't do it regardless. That is just an invitation for wild animals to rip them apart. And then they won't be taken away.
Remember people, wild boars and raccoons love trash
@@j.v3896 not sure how interested they are in plastic waste
@@anna-flora999 they can still smell the food residue. My Landkreis switched from bags to bin last year because it was a huge problem that animals ripped the bags apart
@Princess Azula and foxes. And roaming cats. And in the countryside also dorfköter
18:00 on the day before is the earliest you are allowed to put them outside, at least where I live. But no one ever really checks that, it's just a guideline I think^^
As I was watching this, I could feel my face morph into that of the rentner. By the end of the video I shook my head and a barely perceptible grumble escaped my parched scowl
As long as you don't start sorting through your neighbors yellow sacks and drag them back into the house to put in front of their apartment door once you find something that doesn't belong into the recycling like my old landlord in Hanover used to do, you are fine
@@lynnm6413 they'd probably drag me to prison bc unless somebody else in my household is dividing the trash with different bins, I just throw paper, packaging, food etc. in one and then put it in the Restmüll 🫣
@@edithputhy4948 I have so little room in the Restmüll, I have to sort everything so it works at all.
Wie die Lemminge. Wenn einer es tut, tun es alle anderen auch
Ich würde die Säcke auch nicht in der Wohnung lagern und warten bis die Müllabfuhr erscheint..
Ich würde es raus legen wenn andere es machen, spart mir Zeit und ich muss nicht in einem blöden Kalender gucken
Affe sieht
Affe tut
lol
@@NorroTaku Wir stammen ja irgendwo alle von dehnen ab daher biste auch einer ;D, wieso sollte ich denn auch den geruch in der Bude haben wollen wenn der Müll auch draußen stehen kann ? Und wenn viele andere ihren Müll am Mittwoch raus stellen, bin aber noch beim Dienstag im Kopf, mach ich mit. ;D
You should see when one farmer brings out the crop machine out for wheat.
We regularly did that to check the functions and we were working for a government run testing place with very good reputation.
All farmers nearby would drive to the fields and check if wheat, barley and so on we're dry enough for the cropping.
They weren't.
If you were in The Netherlands and someone threw the bags improperly, the municipality will actually open the bags and try to find if your three something that identifies you. If they do, you will get a big fat letter with a fine in it 😂
Nah they don't.. Someone decided to throw a black garbage bag in front of the front door to my appartment block, and it sat there for about a week until I decided to throw it in our shared backgarden with the other trash bags that got dumped there, since my container was already full (including the extra bag from someone who tried to sneak a few too many extra bags into mine). Btw I don't live in a big city just a small village in the most southern province.
Well this isn't exactly improper they have just got the day wrong.
Awesome!🙌
That what they do whur I live in USA. If it's out more than 2 days, u get fined.
It doesn't ever happen except very rarely , however, because even with using big cans that lock, animals will get into them.
I don't know how all that trash can be outside there without animals tearing it up ???!! 😮
@@actuallyNo... there Arent alot of wild rodents or other animals in europe
Tja da wollte jemand seine drei Wochen Urlaub in Ruhe machen und Zack! Er kontrolliert die ganze Gasse 😂
Thats the content I will enjoy all over everyday !
My grandma's live opposite a guy called Jim. For as long as I can remember they know which bin to put out when according to what Jim does. And if he puts then out early or late, they follow suit. Always.
This is the first vid I've heard you speak. Gotta say I wasn't expecting you to sound so English. It's not bad, just unexpected. Love your content keep up the great work
He is from England
Happens in the UK, we all have that one neighbour who we watch for them putting bins out, copy what bin they put out. Someone new moves into the street and messes it all up putting bin out early, then we all do it!
I guess that one person just didn't want to keep the trash in the house ...
For a change...
Or goes to holiday
what's in those yellow sacks exactly ?
@@YounesLayachi used/emtpy plastic packages for recycling. And PET bottles (those that don't have deposits) as well as used cans and stuff.
@@ddd15557 i thought plastic cannot be recycled ..?
There was one time living in NC i lived in an apartment complex with a few hundred people, and the managers of the complex fired the trash removal company and didnt hire a new one, four weeks later everyone in that apartment complex had 5-11 of those bags each, we all took it to the dupster ourselves one day, and with roughly 20 or so trips around the complex with a pickup truck.
Brimmed the 10ish yard dumpster filled the 3'x20'x20' area behind the dumpster to the top of the wall, filled both side gaps on the dumpster all 20' high.
We filled the entire trash area to the brim with bags,
It took them a week to uncover the dumpster again because the dupmster company refused to take it buried.
Always had people collecting the trash every other day like they were supposed to after that.
Every true german put all collecting days in the Familienplaner on January 1 to be prepared for all Sonderabholungen.
OMG WHY DO I FEEL SO SEEN BY YOU? i do this on new years eve
Privatize the waste schedule! No more abfallkalendar!
"Rubbish people" is hilarious
The only persons I would call this very name is the British government.
@@EllieD.Violet May I ask why?
@@GuilhermeOliveira-mi4xw Because any government has been absolute rubbish since Cameron took over. Got worse with every new PM - almost unimaginable, but true. Look at the Brexit mess - economic insanity, political madness, global laughing stock (5 PMs in 6 years, 3 of them unelected).
Sunak only gives the impression of competence and sanity - he's not quite as mad as the others, but completely out of his depth.
@Sam Wallace Wrongeee 😎 - greetings from a French citizen of semi-German semi-Briton descent, dual national by birth
Greetings from Bavaria
That's probably because this profession is informally called Müllmänner (rubbish men) in German.
"Der Abfallkalender sagt was anderes, aber es wIrd schon einen Grund geben, vielleicht Streik am Freitag?" :-)
this is relatable. usualy i never know when the trash get picked up. so i check what my neighbors are doing
Here we have a small trash closet/building out the front that the trash collectors can access so we can put out the trash whenever we feel like, without ruining the street for passerbys.
I always check my Abfall-App.
And before the Abfall-App we had a little booklet and calendar in which you had a list and stickers and you stuck the right stickers for your street on the calendar so you were able to see the correct dates for your street for the individual types of rubbish (yellow sack, paper and general waste) and they included holiday deviations too
In our area it is not permited to place the trash outside many days before. In the city's regulation for trash it mentions that it can impose fines for that
At first glance, I read "beer pressure" and didn't even question it in a video about Germany.
That one person who started it now laughs their head off. Works each time! :-)
Oh that’s not peer pressure, that’s herd mentality married to laziness.
I for example tend to forget the dates, so sometimes when I see a neighbour putting out the trash rather than looking up the date I just put it out, too…😂😂😂
Everywhere I’ve lived in America they come by once a week to pick up trash and recycling. Same day every week. Can you give me some insight as to what the reasons are for such complexity around garage day in what seems to be many European countries?
@@SWTORLOL87
Well, at least where I live in Germany (Liam’s neck of the woods, actually) we have 4 different trash groups (pre-sorted recycling) and I just can’t be arsed to memorise the cycles, especially since one or two of those groups (see, didn’t memorise) are not picked up weekly but every other week…
In that particular regard I’m just a sloth, I guess.
@@-----REDACTED----- dang. With all those taxes you pay you’d think they could afford some of those trucks with multiple compartments and pick it all up once a week at the same time. Of course, I’m not intimately familiar with the logistics of European waste management so maybe this is already the best way.
You seriously think it's laziness to not want decaying refuse inside your house for two weeks?
No, it's good hygiene.
Exactly! 😆
That would mess me up so bad. On holidays the place where I used to live had a funky system for shifting around trash days so I’d poke my head outside and check up and down the street. If only a couple bins were out, it wasn’t trash day. I learned not to put my bin on the curb on the wrong day because a full trash bin was just too tempting for the wildlife and they’d tear into it.
Me as someone whose job is to fine people for polluting, I am crying a little bit
In Germany, they cry when they can't fine someone.
Why are you crying? Are you happy or sad about this?
Don't worry they are all getting collected for recycling
@@ddd15557 Yeah but propably not at th ecollection date so there likely are extra costs which ultimatevly the tax payer has to pay
@@ProWeltfrieden Nop they usually just lay there till the next collection day (usually once all 14 days). At least around here nobody would put them away. Some people put them out earlier due to holidays for example.
For me I'm also bothered by the milk/ juice carton not being folded. Is a game changer I may assure you on that
plus they are unrecyclyble, like paper, metal, platic, metal, platic, paper, plastik layers in them. pet would be so much better but hey, outsite is paper, cant be that bad.... yes it can. >.
Nah they pierce through the bag if you fold them :/
@@olgerkhan9331What? Ever heard of Tetra Pak ?
@@ddd15557 thats exactly what i was talking about?
@@olgerkhan9331 Aren't they recyclable ?
To my U.S.A brain this entire video feels like a foreign language 😭
Yeah because the garbage man comes every week. Our trash is taken 52 times a year vs. just 12 in other countries. Although my dad is a garbage man so we've always had the perk of him just taking our trash to work with him whenever. 😅
@D3ViiANT noice. Yeah, I think we in the US probably have a lot more actual rubbish than recycleables to collect. Having dad grab it on the way out sounds pretty sweet tho...ngl.
@Kado yes but I'm sure we pay a lot more also, I send out multiple bins every week that are empty because I pay more then enough so there going to lift every bin I have.
@@Robbobshiskabob you pay more then do what?!?!?!
@@D3ViiANT In the Netherlands it's every week too.
In UK if the garbage is to be collected on Friday, you are not allowed to put it out until 7pm on Thursday.
You should do some videos on basic German language for foreigners! Also! Your videos are awesome! Keep them coming!
Most cities and counties have strict rules on when you are allowed to put the trash out to the street. From what I have read the range goes from 48h before to the morning of the collection - depending on local rules. Meaning: you could actually report neighbors for putting their trash/gelbe Säcke out too early. And you wouldn't be the bad guy here 🤓
I love my neighbors doing it, gives me the countdown for when I have to do it too, the more on the street, the closer pick up day comes
This also can happen in the UK, if you live on the right street with just the right atmosphere.
Bro when he put up this schedule for the dumpsters I lost it 😂
You need a schedule because it's kinda complicated, with different pick-up dates for the "Gelber Sack" (packaging), "Biomüll" (organic waste), "Blaue Tonne" (paper) and "Restmüll" for the rest. If you miss a date, you have to wait weeks for the next pick-up.
In the Netherlands its actually illegal to put the bins out too early. The official rule states that you can put it out no earlier than 7 am the day of pick up, though no one listens to that and most do it the evening before after dinner. And occasionally someone will do it 1 or 2 days earlier if they're out. But that doesn't happen much.
Same in belgium afaik haha
Y in germany too but if the whole street is completly lost nobody is the there to judge
Well a bin is different. But not all cities in Germany have bins for plastic bags (yellow).
If you have no bin, but a sack full of stinky plastic garbage (especially in the summer it pretty quickly starts to smell), what do you do with it? Leave it in your flat/apartment?
Whaaat? What if someone, idk, has to leave can't make it, in the very small timeframe from 7am to whenever they're gonna pick it up?
@@slaveNo-4028 fold open the comment 😜 sometimes they will leave it out a day or so earlier. Or if you're gone for longer, yoi ask your neighbours to do it for you
You became one of us. ❤
Where I live, Toronto, we are warned not to put out the bin till 5 pm of previous day of garbage collection. People get mad when someone does it too early. Funny how Canadians have upstaged Germans in this regard.
Torontonians, not Canadians :) My Alberta neighbourhood is cool to occasional bag or bin out of turn
Just became a german.. Well done ^^
Not only will the whole street look like a dumpster until they pick it up, but also stray animals are going to have a nice time tearing apart the sacks at night, making the lives of everyone involved harder. Some people at least put them higher up like hanging them from a fence etc.
Stray animals in germany..... Don't exist.
@@gerharddeusser9103 Haha, I wish they didn't 😀
@@gerharddeusser9103 stray animals may be rare but do exist. Also raccoons and wild boar love trash. And they absolutely do wander around in cities
That explains IT. One guy gives the order, everyone else starts executing.
Executioning?
I love it, when the reason may be many people acting super orderly at the same time, then you hint of many merely being clueless of when the pick-up day is. Touché!
In the Netherlands you're not allowed to put your garbage or paper on the side of the road days before they collect it. I think you can only do it in the early morning of the day the garbage is collected. (At my place you have carbage, paper and glass containers so I can take my garbage outside whenever I want. Unless the containers are full)
Here is between 20:00 and 7:30, later is fine too but doesn't guarantee that they pick it up
As a German, I have to say that's so true lmao 😂
We call that first guy 'Impatient zero'
LOL
I lived in a residential area in Cardiff (capital city of Wales, UK), our recycling was also in sacks like this. Our sacks were collected every week on the same day, most people put the sacks out on the street 1-2 days before collection day, typically 1-2 sacks per house (rather than the whole street piling them in the same place)
The point I’m getting towards is, every residential area around the city centre was crawling with huge rats, freaking monstrous they were, the size of two adult guinea pigs stacked head to tail. The rats shredded the sacks open because people are dumb and throw out food in the recycling, and every week was the same, for like 5/7 days every week, there was trash blowing around every street, literally every 1-2 meters you see a piece of litter, until the lone weekly litter-picker comes and does the entire neighbourhood manually (and probably is serving community service- not paid), one piece of trash at a time. 2 days later, people start putting out their sacks again and the cycle continues endlessly.
To me this says a lot about the difference between the UK and countries like Germany and much of mainland Europe (mostly Northern Europe tho).. It’s a shit hole in the UK, people totally ignore recycling rules. I know this because I handle some private house share rentals, I see many many people’s recycle bins regularly as I do my job, and I’ve seen stuff that would make most German people’s skin crawl… Literal polystyrene on many occasions, an entire frozen pizza, open half-full bottles of expired milk, mayonnaise, eggs, entire loaves of bread, literal electronic devices like disposable vapes, electronic air fresheners, cables… I see all this and much more every week.
I get that it’s gross to have a pile of bin sacks on the street for 1-2 weeks, but man, the fact that you CAN leave bins on the street for that long and no one is freaking out about a rat infestation epidemic, speaks volumes as to how much the waste disposal and recycling rules are respected in Germany, as are many other communal cleanliness rules over there from what I understand, it’s a very hygienic country. Man I should move to Germany, f*ck Brexit for taking away that freedom…
Must be nice to live in such a clean and civilised country…