Contemplating how consumption of local beer
helped put Europe on the ‘road to recovery’

November 21

Recently, I went on another fact-finding tour of countries with the highest recycling rates -- Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom -- to learn more about how they went about achieving those results. In Germany I was just amazed to see how conscientious customers were about returning almost all packaging to retailers and the diligent way that wine bottles were segregated on almost every street corner, the green bottles deposited in green bins and the clear bottles in colorless ones, rather than carelessly commingled (although most neighborhoods also had a bin for miscellaneous glass). Every household is provided with four bins, one each for compost, plastic, glass, and trash, and neighborhood residents seem to take pride in making sure it’s all properly sorted out. READ MORE