There are garbage detectives in Germany (4 photos)

This is the trash can of an ordinary person in Germany. Well, how's the bucket? Six buckets.





Yes, that's how many of them you need to have in this country instead of one habitual trash can in the house. For paper, plastic, metal, glass, food waste, textiles. And this is not a whim of adherents of the green planet, but literally a duty.

For unsorted garbage thrown into a bin near the house a fine is imposed and problems with neighbors are guaranteed. After all, the manager the company will endure the forced costs of manually sorting someone's a bag for all residents of the house in a fresh bill for housing and communal services.

It was a small prelude to understanding how scrupulous attitude in Germany to the disposal and recycling of waste.



They are no less scrupulous in the country and in general to garbage, to anyone. On the street, on the road, in the park or forest.

For every little thing thrown away - a fine. For those left behind picnic bags with leftovers and bottles - a big fine. For trying throwing garbage out of the car somewhere in nature is a huge fine.

True, if caught by the hand. Of course, this is not always possible.

But it also happens.





And you won't believe it, but in Germany there really are quite a significant number of volunteers who seek out authors similar "masterpieces".

They are jokingly called just trash detectives.

They analyze garbage thrown in the wrong place and make a lot of efforts to find the intruder. Moreover, often not unsuccessfully!

"Detectives" pay attention to scraps of correspondence or any document, looking for witnesses, analyzing video from cameras surveillance and even set up ambushes to catch the intruder with red-handed.



The same, incidentally, applies to containers near the house.

The inhabitants look out for each other like spies in order to no one threw out the unsorted garbage and “set up” the rest tenants for additional expenses.

So if in the case of garbage around the Germans turn on innate aversion to breaking the law, then with dumpsters underneath the same innate economy and unwillingness to incur unnecessary expenses at home.