We had to look closely when we saw the Youth of Today smashing green wine bottles in their latest music video. But their song glass container turned out to be part of the birthday party of this archetypal Dutch street furniture. And then it was allowed. Text Marjolein Schuman
Do you remember? Forty years ago, we simply threw glass in the dustbin. After all kinds of private glass collection initiatives, the first municipal bottle bank was installed in Den Bosch in 1978. The armoured colossus conquered the Netherlands by storm and in 1985 the ten thousandth container found its destination in Zeist. By then, over 200,000 tonnes of glass had been collected, almost half of the total amount of waste glass. Since then, it has become impossible to imagine our streets without the bottle bank, making separate waste collection an everyday ritual. As wine major consumers, we regularly make a run for it ourselves. The arguments in favour of glass collection are less energy consumption, less waste of raw materials, less use of space and easier handling of our household waste. There are also financial benefits. Because it saves waste disposal costs, it can ring true elsewhere
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