Re[2]: [SOC] I NEED PLANE TICKETS TO GERMANY STAT!!!

[f5pbl]

Hello Paul,

Saturday, December 21, 2002, 8:46:13 PM, you wrote:

Paul> I lived for a year in Germany (75,76) and at that time the idea of buying
Paul> beer in a TIN was completely foreign to them.

Oui, same here. And that worked not only for beer but also for wine,
but on a smaller scale. I still remember while a kid (6-7 y. old) when
on summer holidays at Grand-Parents' village, gg with Grand-Ma' to the
"Wine seller" with empty bottles (75 cl, of course), entering a small
shop (maybe 100 m2) with a raw of big barrels along each wall and some
"recognizable" smell in the air.
Hmm, who knows, maybe I then became an OJ addict ;o)

Beer bottles were 1 liter ones. The "exchange" was mostly
available at local small shops (grocer).

Oh boys, that was "years" ago ... (25-30).

Now, tins and bricks are on us. Glass bottles are still available
but the "consigne" (deposit) is not done the same way : empty bottles
are brought back to collecting points (big green containers). When full,
the containers are emptied in big trucks. The glass is then reused in
factory to make new bottles.
These containers are to collect not only empty bottles but everything
made of glass.
The money thus saved is offered to hospital structures (mainly to
cancer researchers).

Same kind of "collecting points" are also available for
papers/cardboard (empty milk bricks welcome !).

But Germans & Northerners are vy good (and much better) as for the "Green Punkt".

Paul> Times change.

O Tempores, O Mores.
But at least tnx to new European regulations (yes, at least something
good in it), we have now to make "rubbish sorting" at home. Each city
_must_ now have a "sorting system" to collect garbages : paper, glass
and then all other things. So we have separate bins.
Oh yes, of course you can put everything in the "global bin", that's
up to you. Question of sense of responsability.

72!
Claude