American reacts to 'We Have No Garbage Day in Amsterdam!' 

[] ... air suction through massive pipes that end up at a central dock ... Has more points of failure. Requires more maintenance. May be perfect for (relatively) small scale solutions but is difficult/complicated to scale or adapt to changing environmental situations. I don't know if it is, considering total life cycle, more energy efficient or not. I prefer (so far) the more simple solution as shown in this video. Of course this is my personal subjective opinion based on first impressions only.

@@wimahlers No failure :) read about it

@@peacefulminimalist2028 I did not say it failed or is a failure. I said it has more points that can (potentially) fail. And I did read about it. Not the Bergen implementation but somewhere else in some other Scandinavian country. I can't remember, it was years ago.

@@wimahlers well I don’t think they would spend so much money if it has the potential to fail. It works great.

​@@peacefulminimalist2028 Evaluate and compare not now but 30 or so years from now. Which system then shows to be more practical, economical, adaptable, reliable, energy efficient and ecological more sound system. In that context and time frame I tend to believe that the system with the most flexibility and the least components will outperform the more complex system. Note: Above else ... reduce, reuse and longer usage is the preferred approach above any waste management system.

In the Netherlands it is also over the whole country. Such a nice system. These simple things make you really value where you live

Was just about to comment this.

In Czech Republic I have also been seeing more and more of these too. They've almost completely replaced all the recyclable trash containers

In the Netherlands we only have it in (big) cities. In smaller villages we have containers (klikos). Interesting fact: we have one for plastic, two for garden and vegetable waste, one for paper and one for residual waste.

@@EdwinMartin i myself live in a small village (5k residents), we have them too. They are not only in the big cities. Probably depends on the municipality.

Same for me :D We have those underground garbage containers in Sweden as well.

Yeah, garbage collection in Spain is horribly noisy. Also you have ugly containers on tge street, not underground, where some people drop their trash just aside, on the ground. The mentality of keeping your city clean needs some improvement.

​@trinir5156 where have you been I Spain??? I think you should not generalise...

It’s far from perfect here. But I am happy there are some things we seem to do right. It’s funny because I feel very positive about Germany myself. Heck, lots of other countries surrounding are great.

@@lolololol7573 Yup, the grass is always greener on the other side. However, I DID make the right decision when I moved from Germany to Canada 30 years ago, never regretted it : )

@@halcyon-cg2eb Well, in 30 years Germany changed a lot for the better. If you ever got the change to visit your 'old' country, you'll be surprised.

@@rudib-5304 Since moving to Canada, I've visited Germany every other year. And yes, you are right, Germany has improved a lot, especially the people, much friendlier than they used to be... Germany is a beautiful country and has a lot of good things going on, however, I still prefer Canada ; )

The good thing about the Netherlands is that everything is regulated. The bad thing about the Netherlands is that everything is regulated.

literally same, here in Braga I have one big all trash bin and two recycling pois about 50 meters away! I was so confused about the trash day thing haha

Facts!🇵🇹❤

yeah, it's the norm now, but it didn't use to be, at least not outside city centers. i remember when i was little, there was specific garbage days. it wasn't just once a week as it appears to be in america, but it depended where you lived, i think in the neighborhood where i grew up, it was mondays, wednesdays and fridays. but i also remember in another house i lived it being like tuesdays and thursdays. probably depends on the population of the area with how much garbage they're likely to make. but now it seems to be every week day

I second that! Porto neighbor here!

we dutch probably stole that idea..you should sue them..us i mean them uff the underground porto idea stealers.

En Mallorca, la mayoría de los pueblos tienen recogida selectiva puerta a puerta de los residuos. Por ejemplo, en mi pueblo recogen la materia orgánica 3 días por semana, el vidrio y el cartón 1 día por semana, los envases de plástico y aluminio 2 veces por semana y la parte no reciclable se recoge 1 vez por semana y debe sacarse con una bolsa concreta que se vende por 1€ aunque el ayuntamiento te regala 1 por semana (así la gente que no recicla y una bolsa no les llega ni para empezar paga más por sus residuos). Eso ha convertido a Baleares en la región de España donde más se recicla de España a una distancia enorme del País Vasco que está en segundo lugar.

Why would the conservative party be opposed to a functional system? That's more a leftwing thing 'This works, but it's against our ideology so we hate it'.

Not pile, they have wheelie bins

Yup, and still.. their waste management is not cheaper... they pay the same for a poorer service, say "freedoms!" and that is the end of conversation.

That's correct Ro-deer but with a G

@@RogierTeijgeler What's a _Dutch G_ ?

@@damyr Something like: "cccrrr" ;-)

@@margaretenubaum9089 That sounds rough... like Klingon. :)

​@@damyr the closest sound in English is ch like in Bach

at reclycling parks you mean? think those have becoma standard in europe? :) in Belgium we were amoung the first to start those up in 90s!

@@JeroenJA yes, didn’t know the term in English we call them “Eco parque”

@@paulanavarro030110 sim city used 'reclycling park' the official term in Flander is 'recyclagepark' but almost anyone just say they go to the containerpark , since there are so many containers there to sort in ;)

Or if you want to have lower rent, you can take care of that.

@@dejfcold well it depends a lot on where exactly you live.

Here (small town in the Netherlands) we also have containers for plastic and paper😁

That has very little / nothing to do with lazyness in most cases, but everything with only being able to drop trash off at 1 specific site, that is NOT open outside of office hours and therefore inaccessible. Combined with agressive anti-mobility policies that force people to not have a car, dumping it besides the containers is the only way. I had to get rid of a couch in Utrecht. They basically told me to strap it to my bicycle, take a day off work and cycle for over an hour. Uhm, nope, it got dumped and they took it away normally, like I already paid for. Had to get rid of a very long metal sunscreen box in De Bilt. My appartment didn't have an acces card for the dump side AND the thing doesn't fit in my car. Requesting an acces card cost € 27,50 AND there's a chance of being denied if the previous tenant took his along. Guess what? None of that idiotic nonsense, I dumped it and they took it away normally like I had already paid for. During covid the containers were jammed up half the time because there was too much trash and they decided everybody being at home all the time was a good time to cut back on how often they collected the trash by 50%. Instead of providing the service you pay for, they told you to keep the trash inside your house and wait until they eventually collected it weeks later. Yeah, they demanded that we keep filthy nappies from our baby, inside our 30+ degree appartment, for 3 weeks, so the government workers could be lazy. Guess what? We didn't stand for that shit, dumped and made it rain complaints until the lazy government workers got off their arses and collected it, like they should have to begin with. Cities use the underground container as a method to try and force people against their will, to magically not produce trash so the city can meet political goals. This is where the system breaks down really.

also the chemicals in our food are bad for our teeth

@@sjoerdstougie But the racoons eat our food.

Deze systeem hebben we bijna 20 jaar in Almelo.

Same in Germany

Probably from surroundind shops. Usualy they pile up these things and collect them later for disposal (not enough store-space?)

@@MisterJ56 probably. It was in front of shops but there's one shop next to another so you had one pile next to another. It was just weird because you have a city that's otherwise pretty clean.

@@fzoid3534 Shops probably run by foreigners (just joking). Shopkeepers have to be careful because they can get a (large) fine.

Hmmm, so howcome the Netherlands is getting the garbage from Italy? You guy's cannot handle your garbage and we help you so don't spread lies. Italy is a filty country

smaller towns like Paris, where the garbagemountains, in March this year, where bigger than a garbagetruck :) Due to a labor strike.......

Guadalajara Mexico o España? O alguna otra que se me olvide?😊

We have theses up in the north as well. It’s very common in the most populated cities in Scandinavia

Not in Tilburg

But outside of cities in smaller villages is the system different? I envy you: Germany and the Netherlands are similar in so many ways but we still have trash bins in front of every house.

@@Krokostad Most houses in the Netherlands still have trash bins. It's only in the larger cities that it's different

Americans are obsessed with white teeth 😂 Normal color is definitely not bright white especially if you eat spices like kari, drink coffee, red wine.

It was such an "American " comment 😂

Oh, no! Don't tell that to Not Just Bikes. He thinks everything he shows on his channel about Amsterdam, is world's first or unrivaled by others. He also thinks the Danish bike system and roads sucks. He's kind of a dick. We have similar systems, like in the video, in Horsens. On my street, we've had them for maybe 6-8 years. And I've seen them in Aarhus as well, at least in the inner city. What city do you live in?

And they dont eat suggar! ;-)

@@Pipieable Of course not, but even then it takes 3-4 years to completely ruin your teeth with heavy sugar intake, so most of those wild animals would have died, before their teeth would have decayed from sugar.

One hundred percent. Just dropping off garbage on the way elsewhere would be so much better.

Here in Czechia, many smaller cities are actually switching to that stupid model that everyone has his own bins and you have to put them at street when it's garbage day, it's totaly ridiculous for someone born in Prague where you just take your trash and give it to nearest containers at street and you don't have to care about some nonsenses like moving with your bins. Their motivation is to force people separate correctly and have less garbage, I get that, but I still don't agree with this system, when you live somewhere where it's not even officialy living space, you don't have any bins and since they remove bins from streets in smaller cities, you have no place where to put that! And when you walk at street and you finish some drink, all bins are locked, I am surprised there are no machineguns guarding it and shooting everyone who want to throw away some bottle, so I guess it's better to throw it on ground or to garden of such person with locked trash can. 😀 It's starting be like in Japan here that you walk 2 km with stupid bottle and looking for bin. These things like garbage bins should be paid from taxes directly from your salary or something and you would not have to care where you are and what bin is that if it's your or public or something, just throw it somewhere else than to forest, that's the most important I guess. Some people are always like "look, he has such a garbage at his garden" but what are those people supposed to do that all that garbage? You can't put it to trash can or it's to big or something, garbage company just doesn't want it, so these villagers are just collecting it and then burning. It's terrible, but they are pretty much forced to do that by those fuckers in city halls. They should more like punish e-shops for their stupid packages where you have one USB flash disk and it's in box like 1x1x1m filled with bubble foil, I totaly hate that! The "best" expert to that is your German Conrad shop, I was once complaining about that and they told me that it's packed automaticaly by some robot or something and they can't do anything with that, so I guess I will throw that bubble foil into some river which is going to Germany, I can't do anything with that and don't provoke me because there is Elbe near from my home, so I can really do it. 😀 One good example is our Alza.cz shop, they started puting products to their AlzaBoxes (we have them literally everywhere at streets) without any extra packages and I really like that, but those modern market places like Allegro (which is buying our shops sadly) is trying to destroy everything, it will be like ordering from China, you order 10 products and you will get 10 different packages, it's ridiculous. But that's probably already offtopic, I just wanted to complain about something because I am Czech.