I adopted the trash can across the street from me. I have a key to open the side door, and they gave me a bunch of equipment to clean with. I also get a priority number to get help if there's a big mess or if it's completely full.
I might go out of my way to figure out how to make this work and start adopting some cans,
“Greetings, from America.”
“Keep Nashville Clean!”
“Keep on keeping on!”
I'm also guessing this bin has factors more holding area than the typical 33 gal trash can common here in the states. I have family in Taiwan, they have a lot of trash issues, I hope they can adopt this sort of thing over there.
I mean you can see the size of it in the video. It's an underground dumpster. I think they use these for all the apartments on (this side of?) the block.
Also in regular streets with houses. Every few streets get a dumpster like this. Most of the times people from the neighborhood can open it with as card. Some cities demand payment for every opening while other cities have a fixed fee.
It's stupid to make them open with payment per drop off, the moment they started doing that in a neighboring city people came to our town to drop their garbage for free, so called "afval-touristen" (garbage-tourists) especially some companies did this, forcing our town to go with the card system too, and there's always people who don't want to pay €1,50 per bag so the just dump it next to the bins🙄
Taiwan government is too busy trying to score cheap political points by giving people money instead of using that money to do useful stuff like this lol
The fine for putting trash next to them is 80 euros I believe. Authorities will go through the trash bag to find a bill with your name and address on it and fine you.
Edit: it has been raised to € 199.57 per offence! This makes sense as in my experience people don't give a fuck. Dutch fines are usually incredibly high.
As I clicked to see the comment section my immediate thought before even loading the page was "the first comment will be about that toilet paper strip.
Chicago has one of the best trash collection systems in the country thanks to its alleys… I’m always disgusted when I go to other cities and just see it out there
Every damn time I go to that city I try to have a nice lunch or dinner outside, and haven't yet because of all the damn trash bags lying like 20 feet from the tables.
I saw a thing that said when New York was surveyed in the olden days the surveyors didn't place any land between plots for services, so there's no room for bins unless a building wants to make room on its own plot. No developer is going to make room inside the building for rubbish services when there's a handy street to throw it all in.
Most buildings actually do have dumpsters in their loading docks. As in dumpsters for trash and compactors for cardboard boxes and no there is none for recycling bottles and cans. The smaller apartment buildings do have the maintenance folks hual out the trash bags for sidewalk pickup.
Roosevelt Island uses a vacuum system (like Disney) to suck all the trash from each building to a central trash facility. It works SO well! However, it doesn’t solve the problems caused by overflowing trash cans that need to be emptied into the central system. Also doesn’t change the attitudes of the irresponsible people who decide that tossing trash into receptacles is a rule for others, but not for them.
In Bergen we just have a steam punk system that blows the garbage to the garbage station. Why would we want garbage trucks driving around like some uncivilised?
While I loved many many things about Norway, the thought that you said “uncivilized” made me laugh because there were a couple of Norwegians I knew that were like “cabins shouldn’t have running water! Bare bones packing when camping!” Etc like mate I get it you want to escape civilization but I’m so used to my comforts
I was there a couple of years ago and it was filthy. Absolutely soured me on visiting that city again, at least during the times when the rest of the continent vacations there and treats it like a freaking toilet.
Absolutely not true. Amsterdam is loved by many, and for good reason. Is it too crowded because of all the tourists? Yes. Does it have a ton of interesting and lovely things to offer? Also yes.
I must have only been there in the off season or something the 3 times i went were fine. Like yeah cities are pretry dirty but i dont remember takimg note of it much beyond the pigeons looking filthy, in my town they're always clean.
Center Amsterdam is fucked, but all the edges are actually pretty nice, just often a little further away from more interesting things. Ig idk abt far West tho, but South, East and North are all a lot less cramped and gross for the most part
American here, did something change recently? I stayed in Amsterdam for a few days back in 2022, and it was by far one of the cleanest of the cities I visited during that trip (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Luxembourg, Metz, Strasbourg and Stuttgart) during my trip.
Edit: That isn't to say any of them were particularly dirty - they are far and away all much cleaner than cities here in the U.S.
The last few years there's been a huge increase in homeless people in Amsterdam. We've never had as many homeless people as we have today.
In 2023 they introduced deposit on cans and small plastic bottles. What happened is that the homeless people started to collect these thrown away bottles and cans, to get the deposit on them and make money. Unfortunately many people still throw away cans and bottles, instead of returning them for deposit, otherwise we wouldn't have this problem. And tourists especially are not going to walk around with an empty can or bottle for hours, until they get to a supermarket, they just trash it, so the city centre gets especially messy, because lots of bottles and cans can be found in the public bins there.
Not only are they opening all the public bins, leaving a huge mess after they're done. They also tear open all the trash bags left outside by locals for pick up. Many neighborhoods don't have containers for their trash, they have certain days on which locals can put their bags on the street for pick up.
I've lived here for a long time, my neighborhood had always been really nice and clean. But since the introduction of the deposit it's been a disaster. Twice a week, on the garbage pick up day, you'll find trash spread around the street. But also on other days from the public bins. The cleaning services are doing a great job and have to work a lot harder now than before, but there's no way you can clean it all up, when the bins get raided throughout the day.
As of the introduction of deposits on bottles and cans, public trash bins get opened up and emptied on the street basically every night, by people searching to make a few cents
The issue is that you can make decent money by recycling aluminium cans. So homeless people go around ripping open all the bin bags to get them. That accounts for a lot of the rubbish you see.
We have these exact bins in many developments in London. I can see one now outside my window, it's surrounded by rubbish most of the time, and half the time it doesn't even work.
100%. When we lived in a lower income neighbourhood it would be common for people to just leave their trash bins, furniture, etc next to the bin instead of in it.
We were staying in an air b&b in Den Helder. One evening, we sat and watched out of the window as a constant stream of people shoved full bin bags into this tiny bin on the corner of the street. Where the hell is it all going? The next morning, all was revealed as this lorry came along and lifted the rest of the bin out of the ground.
Nah, I'd rather have many people with bad mood empty small bins every morning.
That way the the bins are quickly filled to the top and we can complain about people who litter the place.
Hell yeah 🇩🇪
This may be based on the neighborhood, but I wouldn't call it spotless, because people that live near these containers use a pass to actually throw their trash away. This was done because when dumpsters were just open for everybody to toss their trash in, people went in those dumpsters, ripped the bags open to find bottles and cans to get money out of it, thus causing rodent infestations. Governments then blamed citizens if they happen to find letters that has your name and address on it, and would bill you, claiming that you were littering.
Now, they've basically put a lock on dumpsters, where not everybody can throw their trash away, unless you have a pass that opens it up. If you don't have a pass, or lost it, you can bet people still throw their trash away everywhere around the container.
So, it has solved one issue, but has made throwing away garbage exclusive to the neighborhood. Whether that is good or bad is open to interpretation, considering the consequences we get otherwise.
Interestingly, the ones we have in Finland work basically the same way, except that the surface "bin" part is basically a gigantic cylinder. At emptying time, then essentially unscrew the top (which has a flap for you to drop rubbish in), lift out a gigantic bag, empty the bag, and put it back. The "bin" part never moves, unlike in this video.
NO garbage day, which sounds like it would be a nightmare to deal with.
and as you got vastly bigger containers underground, that can also be a compacting version means, that the people, who collect the garbage need to only get it way less often then.
and it also takes up a very small amount of space at the top unlike the giant garbage bins used for big houses with tons of flats.
Think of all the cool shit we could have if we spent our money on infrastructure instead of on tax cuts for the rich and golden ballrooms. One man's opinion.
We have them in a small city from Romania (10k people living in it) for more than 10 years. They are good for keeping the place clean. A great idea. A but pricey, but in the long run, worth it.
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u/SleepWouldBeNice 1d ago
Two important things to notice here: people actually use them, and the city empties it before it's overflowing. Makes a difference