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Guys you know what? Every time I feel a little down, I watch one of your videos and it takes me back up right away! You bring so much positive energy. Thanks so much 🙏
Having grown up with these places, it's almost hard to believe other countries don't have them. Me and my brother always used to go there as kids (the Nærum one actually) and dig through that one container where people put the stuff they don't want but isn't broken. Free junk :)
Unfortunately not all recycling stations appreciate if you pick up stuff rather than dump stuff. "It's the municipalitys property" they claim. I think that it has its origins from some time way back, when some people made it a business to harvest copper from wires and didn't return with what was left afterwards. Thus it ended up polluting somewhere else. Anyway, my housing union (boligforening) is doing the exact opposite. There are clear signs at the drop off spots that state that anything left unattended in those areas is up for grabs. They don't wanna waste time guarding it, and they don't want complaints from people that regret throwing away something. Btw. that thing you attach to tow with a hitch behind your vehicle is called a trailer in Danish 😉
The reason is that recycling stations generate an overall profit for the municipality. Some resources, e.g scrap metal, are so valuable that people carry it away in large quantities to sell to scrap dealers. This has even lead to physical fights over the scrap metal. The recycling stations would rather avoid that. Given that the recycling stations generate profit, it is a wonder that not all countries have them. Perhaps legislature is in the way?
I recommend visiting the (rather) new genbrugsplads in Hillerød. Very modern and combines both recycling and reuse. The layout is circular and all dumpsters are recessed on a lower level which means you simply drive up and pitch the garbage over the edge. It’s brilliant!!! I am sure the service-staff wouldn’t mind you taking videos.
Josh and Miranda thank you for your content, as a Dane living abroad I watch all your videos. I miss Denmark and "genbrugsstationer" I live in Japan and let me say, it costs a fortune to get rid of stuff here, and people turn in to hoarders because of it. Like I don't enjoy throwing stuff away but you know if you have tripped over that exercise bike enough times and you are not using it -it has to go. Here there is the "storskrald" arrangement and so you have to call the garbage collectors measure and weigh your item and give a detailed description, then they will give you a number you have to write down and a date for pickup. After that you have to go to a convenient store and buy a sticker for each item and put your stuff outside within the one hour window for pickup once every week. Wife and I live downtown Tokyo and it makes no sense for us to own a car, but if I could just rent a truck on set clean out day and have a genbrugsstation to take all my garbage to it would be heaven.
The "thing" you put on the back of your car is called a 'trailer' so 'trailer trash' has a totally different meaning in Denmark, there is a running "joke" that everyone or every car in Jutland has a trailer.
Some "genbrugsstationer" in Denmark actually provide special containers, where you can leave usable and still working stuff, and others can roam through these containers and take what they want.
I once read an article about how the recycling stations came about. It was a man from Esbjerg who many years ago got the idea to sort waste in this way. He was, I think, the manager of a landfill in Esbjerg municipality and didn't like people not sorting their waste. So he got the idea to make it easier for people to sort. Many municipalities were not interested, they thought it was too expensive. But the municipality of Vejle got on board with his idea, i think it was in the 80 something, and made him the maneger of the landfill in Vejle. After some years in fact it was discovered that the municipality started making money from waste. End of story.
So nice seeing/hearing someone, so compassionate about *genbrugpladsen* recycle in general, we collectively as the human race produces so much garbage, some even collecting it for absolutely no reason
Have you seen the movie “Blå mænd”? I know that the movie is about everything else then the “genbrugs station” it is happening on, but it is an must see 🎥😃😀
one of my favorite activities when i was a kid, Going to Lyngby genbrugs-station, I still remember when i was 5-6 years old i found a complete skalextrix race-track, i was over the moon for weeks.....
I love the fact that we have these genbrugsstationer everywhere in Denmark. At the place where my house is, we have recycling boxes for paper, plastic, food, garden waste, metal and mixed waste. The rest I have to drop off at the genbrugsstation - or I can book the local authority responsible for recycling to pick it up in front of my house. They do that a couple of times a year.
As living in an apartment building we have a now extended room in the end of it, with bins for separate items and at the end of our road, a larger building with a container for glass and room for larger waste. I do have a feeling that we are now expected to wash our trash, before leaving it in the bins!!!
You would love the genbrugsstation in Horsens. You drive a bit up, and all the dumpsters are placed in a half circle like shape, and are below you so you dont have ro lift up stuf. Just dump them.
If you don't have a car you can forget about this unless you are lucky enough to have some friends or family nearby who own a car. But otherwise genbrugsstationer (recycle stations) is a great idea. And they do have them in other countries too. I suggest, though, that you first hand off relevant stuff to charity shops (Røde Kors, Blå Kors etc), like (I think) you did. They're like Goodwill in the US.
Hi. You said that you through away apples. If you have many apples that you are not able to use, you can bring them to a brewery, and they can make cider out of them. You just have to make an appointment before going there.
Yes, I was thinking that too. Some mosterier (like in (æble)most, those mostly small companies making apples into apple juice) are happy to take your apples and give you apple juice in return. There can be a fee involved. Google 'mosterier der modtager dine æbler'.
... and worth mention that you can only take stuff in, you are not allowed to take stuff out of the station ...another additional information is that many of these places, they have agreement's with the red cross. RC have an opened container and sometimes/somedays a worker, where they can take your good stuff that its good to throw away but you don't want to throw it, give it or sell it... so they collect it, and after that, they take it to be sold on their loopmarked shops.
Yup! We used this a lot as we decided we de-cluttered before and after moves. The other bin that has been used a lot is the small electronics and cables. Over time, we've replaced almost all of our small electronics to European versions. Having that electronics bin to safely dispose of our US stuff has been great!
Really great to see what you are talking about on video, but maybe a bit short 😅. Really cool as a dane to see my country from a knother nationalitys viewpoint 😊
Josh said "genbrugsstation" more correct than Miranda did. My closest of such is more a sort of flee market. There are a few containers but there is almost more space, where things can be exchanged. I like that concept. The place a little further away SELL things.
Looking forward to see your new car. Is it neighbours trailer you can borrow? For the last 25 years all my cars have been with hook, makes it so much easier, also with bike rack.
There where a phrase in your video I love : Joshua:Maybe we dont need it,Miranda we DONT need it...thats great humor and also it seems that Joshua must have a twin from Jutland(they dont throw things out) 🤣
Some of the stations they have a market, like a thrift store, so everything doesn't get thrown out, and can actually be used again for other people, like clothing, kitchen stuff, records, and so on
Here in Roskilde where I live theres a special container for stuff that u don't need but you think is too good just to throw in "småt brændbart" or a container like that, and then every day they empty this container because all the good things that would be worth something either goes to red cross or in the little shop that's open every Friday and Saturday called "gensalg" The small profit they have also goes to charity, I was lucky to find a whole Bed including the small madress on top "rullemadras" for 500 kr all because there was a itsy bitsy whole on the side that you couldn't see anyway when you have bedsheets on.
Then you must try to have been to the old recycling station in Lyngby on Nøjsomhedsvej. Then you can talk about the small Recycling site sometimes there Held for 100 meters in a queue to get in. Yes, when I've been visiting Nashville, recycling comes to mind. you just throw the beer bottles away. i don't understand it is a resource. a completely normal Danish green beer bottle is used approximately 30 times
Do the places you go to have areas where you can go and take items as well? My local place has three furniture "houses" as well as places for other stuff such as an area where you can put gardening plants and pots that there is nothing wrong with but you might not need anymore or books and kitchenware etc. etc. Another genbrugsstation a bit further away on the island (I am on Amager) has a red cross area where you can put the things you think might be useful to others as well, but here you can't really take stuff.
Hi Josh and Miranda. I can recommend you to buy a Trailer for your car. It will make it much easier for you when you go to the recycling station, instead of " stuffing " it all into your car. You just need to have a hook ( anhænger træk ) mounted on the back of the car for the trailer, at a car repair shop. And then try to practice driving it around carefully. You have to be very careful not to turn too sharply backwards with a trailer on, because you can hit the car with the trailer and do nasty damage to the car. I hope you understand what I mean.
The "tow thing" is called a "Trailer", I believe 🤣🤣🤣🤣. It's the same in both English and Danish 👍. If you need further English lesson's..., I´m here all week 😊😊😊😊
have you gotten into a genbrugsbutik like Røde kors butikkerne they might like to get some of the still functioning furniture and other things you are just throwing out.
The trailer hook on cars is what they make fun and some Danish people call a "Jyde Krog" because all in Jylland have one. But the correct Danish word for the hook is "anhængertræk"
Not everybody in Jutland/Jylland have one. Far from it. But the joke is that they (we) all do have one, since we're all peasants transporting pigs around (or something like that). 🙂
Next time, try the Gentofte Genbrugstation, it is a but further away from you, but it is easier to unload, as you dont have to lift heavy stuff up, to get it in the container, as the containers are alle lined up in a lower area so you just throw stuff down into a container.
If you're having trouble with the amount of cardboard you've got piling up, you can douse it a little with some water to make it much more pliable to fold together, and when it dries again it should keep the shape you fold it into so it gets a lot easier to pack it better. If you have a composting bin, you can also make some types of it into pulp in a bucket of water and add it to the compost, though you'll want to avoid getting too much dye and bleach with it, so mainly go for the uncoloured rougher stuff like the cardboard boxes from eggs, the rolls from toilet paper and kitchen towels, pizza boxes etc., and you don't want to add very much cardboard at a time because it takes a while to break down all the way :) Edit: Don't listen to me on the first paragraph, apparently that's not a good tip - see below comments for details! :)
Normally cardboard that has gotten wet can't be recycled and if you put it in the cardboard container you can in worst case contaminate the whole container, so not only the cardboard you threw out, but the entire content of the container now has to be burned instead. It is an incredible bad advise, especially considering you can easily rip and tear the cardboard so it becomes flat.
So you are going to have a car with a “ Jyde Krog” to tow a trailer behind your car? Congratulations with all that you are doing for recycling. You become more and more Danish - so now Joshua just have to use the danish words and we will all help him in translating it into English. 😉
I Think you should do a longer video. Maybe ask to get a guide. All citys want to show that it’s here and how to use. So garbage doesn’t end up in nature. Would held non danish people to understand.
well guess there had to that one benefit living in Sønderborg.. a huge all hours open landfill.. Gratz ( btw sucks you cant get rid of all your items - what you can deliver is for the most part what you also can get rid of in containers at most shoppingcenters - also accessable 24/7.
So I see you are adjusting to living as a Dane, but has not yet embraced the status symbol of rural Denmark. 1 in 2 property owners has a trailer. In some parts of the nation 85% of the cars registered has a trailer hitch.
Your not allowed to film in public mayby thats why the person working in the recycling erea didint like the camera ( I asked a police station in Denmark, and they told you can't film in public )
The tow thing we call a "trailer" in Danish. Next video could be a trip to CopenHill, where your non-recyclable garbage ends. Could be a great video. EDIT: It should be perfectly fine to make videos on the genbrugsplads. It is public and you are both co-owner. Same rules as making videos anywhere in the public space.
@@KurtFrederiksen I am a photographer (EDIT: Retired), I know the rules very well. There are rules when you can't film people. Like a victim in a car crash, it is no go. If it is a public known celebrity, there are basically no rules. Knock yourself out. Basically, you can record what ever you can see with your eye in the public. What law am I referring to. No law, we have no law. We have precedence over time in the court, Thanks to BT, EB, Se&Hør and others. Don't stick a camera up in anybody's face, without asking. Photos and videos with powerful zoom can give problems if published. In the public, you can record as your eyes sees it. You can even record peoples houses and garden from the sidewalk. Use common sense, and you will be fine.
bortgives on den blå avis and gul og gratis is a good way to give away things you dont need anymore that still have value.. its amazing what you can find in those places, that people give away specially in the area traveling young lives in stuff that is donated to recycling stations are often not given away for free people on bistand gets a check they can go to salvation army/røde kors etc. and buy it for, for example and some of it is sold in shops its a public place you can film all you want if the gates are open (you paid for that place, and have the right to be proud of it and show it) just like you can record the town house from the inside if you want, just dont walk around recording people personal conversations or personal info.. many things you are allowed to record, the problem comes when you share it public.. if you record someone take something from the container, and show it on you tube you are showing the face of a criminal and that is a no go.
Important notice regarding reusable clothes: If you want to get rid of clothes in good shape (maybe you lost weight or the opposite) please don't dump it in the "Genbrugsstation". Instead, donate directly to Red Cross or other charity organizations in one of their containers. Then the clothes will be sold in a second-hand shop or donated to people in need. The charity organizations need your used clothes to raise money via voluntary workers. I am not sure how the clothes in the "Genbrugsstation" dumpster are handled - I fear that too much valuable clothes are just destroyed.
They get destroyed but not in the sense that they're burnt. They are sold a business that recycles the fibers and makes them into new threads that are then made into new material. You're completely right about the importance of getting ones good old clothing to a second hand shop.
Sorry! I should have clarified about the Clothes. I always put them in the big clothes donation bins at the genbrugstation. I never put clothes in the restaffald dumpster. Any clothes that cant be given away go in the special bin for textiles. All of the genrbugstations have them. 😇
I just learned that in Norway they are about as bad as us danes at recycling, then they got some robots that got them from 4-7% to over 30% The danish government? ''The danes just has to get better at it'' 🙄
It still exists in Modern English, too: _brook._ It’s quite archaic in the sense ‘use, enjoy’, but it does still exist. The meaning has shifted to ‘tolerate, endure’, mostly used with negatives (‘can/will not use’ > ‘can/will not allow’).
