Recycling in Germany - How to dispose of YOUR TRASH correctly! ♻️🦴🗑

Recycling in Germany is easy once you know all the rules. In this video, I explain to you how to dispose of your trash properly in Germany.

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⏰ Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
03:07 - Plastic, cardboard, and normal trash
06:05 - Return bottles with Pfand at a drink market
06:53 - Return bottles with Pfand at a supermarket
07:43 - How to throw away bottles and big cardboard boxes
09:47 - How to throw away old clothes
10:28 - How to throw away your Christmas tree
11:18 - How to throw away batteries
12:13 - How to throw away light bulbs
12:27 - Miscellaneous like paint, old mattresses, old furniture
14:33 - Things to avoid

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[christine]

This is so impressive. The dedication of the government and people to properly segregate their waste. My favorite part is the disposing of glasses and the time schedule that you are allowed to throw glass/bottles.

[chellastation]

It is super nice that the German's care for recycle and being clean. I wish here in America was more like this. I know a few parts of America try this, but it is most of the people that don't help. I remember being in Boston, where they had a machine where you recycle ♻️ bottles and cans and get cash. I wish more places do this 🙏

[K__a__M__I]

Watching this as a German...it makes me feel strangely proud of my country. What the hell?

[pezia]

Where I live (Trier), "Problemabfälle" (used oil, batteries, paint, etc.) can be also taken to the "Wertstoffhof". If someone has a car and some storage space to gather enough stuff, could be a nice option.

[darlenewiedemann]

Just moved to Germany from California, where we are also avid recyclers. So, I was dedicated to doing this right here, thank you for making this video.

[sanyasterben]

2024 here, I’m grateful for your content! 😊

[VidimusWolf]

This is incredibly impressive. Wow! Thanks for the great video!

[glain]

If you are new to a city, etc check your local regulations, it's not all the same in Germany. Here in Munich for example there are no yellow trash cans, you have to get those to where the glass containers are. Also there is no Sperrmüll here yo are supposed to bring that trash to special collections places called Wertstoffhöfe.

[krissveroes]

Omggg thanks so much for this video. I am an American living in Germany and I take out all my trash for first time today in the same bag and my neighbor almost dieeee! Jajaja I didn't know nothing about the system and she was so amazing person, she fixed all my trash and then came to tell me that I can't do that jaja... I thank God for so amazing neighbor, she just talking german did her best to explain to me and help me with my mess! 😆🤣🤣🤣🤣 I truly appreciate your video! I have some extra work at home now😆😆🤣🤣🤣 but I think this is amazing. I LOVE GERMANY!

[jex]

Thank you! I love living here, trying to do it correctly.

[ANPapila]

Wow! You spent tooo much time on this! PROUD!

[juttalio]

But it dipends on where you live. I live in Bremen. We don't have to seperate Papier and Karton. We can put it all together at the street on collection day. We also use the Gelbe Sack for plastic. Not every one can have seperate bins for this stuff, due to the lack of space in the rentable buildings. Every Store selling batteries has to take them back, so you can get rid of them at the supermarket. In the small citys and villages of Niedersachsen, surrounding Bremen, the glass is also collected at your house. Things of a bit of value, like books or kitchenstuff and so one, we here put on the streets whith a sign " Zu verschenken" for people to take it home, if they like. But after some time you have to take it back to youre house, if nobody wanted.
So it's really a sience to learn it all.

[asifbhay]

Thanks for the video. It's very useful and informative.

[LaoZi]

I wanted to see a video about the recycling of packages in stores. I live in Japan and I see your daily trash and recycling is similar to our process here.

[kharla.mendez]

This is heaven to me. I'd be so happy to separate all my trash.

[tneon]

For most of those Special things like paint, oil, car batteries, electronics and so on you can simply go by the rule "return it where you got it" most car shops offer to take back the oil for example and most hardware stores take back paint. For normal AA- AAA batteries you can go to almost any goverment building in germany and there will be a box to dispose them. (Even my fromor school had one). Any if everything goes wrong there are Recycling centers (Werkstoffhof) scatered around germany wich will help you get rid of almost anything.

[nadirtanrverdiyev]

Thanks, a lot. It's all clear now😉

[lokeshmhjn]

Thanks. Perhaps something to add is that for Biotonne, you should not dispose it off along along with a regular plastic bag. The Biotonne can be collected in paper bags, or special compostable bags (kompostierbar).

[a.s.b.]

Hi, maybe a good complement to your video: in some citys for example in Hamburg, we dont have "Sperrmüll" days, here it's normal to bring your old stuff to the "Recycling Hof", there are a few in the city :)

[reineh]

We have something similar in Sweden but all our bins stands in a shed. You can also throw your bottles there (even on Sundays). Only bad thing is that you need a car if you want to throw away electronics, paint and bigger stuff since only a few places take them.
Edit: Light bulbs and batteries are thrown in small bins you find in the shed I mentioned above