American reacts to 'We Have No Garbage Day in Amsterdam!'

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Ryan Wuzer

Ryan Wuzer

Жыл бұрын

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@peacefulminimalist2028
@peacefulminimalist2028 Жыл бұрын
If you think that's fancy you should check out how they do it in Bergen, Norway. The "bins" on the street look like those in Amsterdam, but instead of going to an underground container, they move the trash with the help of air suction through massive pipes that end up at a central dock, where it goes into containers and are ready for pick up. So no garbage trucks in the streets at all.
@wimahlers
@wimahlers Жыл бұрын
[] ... air suction through massive pipes that end up at a central dock ... Has more points of failure. Requires more maintenance. May be perfect for (relatively) small scale solutions but is difficult/complicated to scale or adapt to changing environmental situations. I don't know if it is, considering total life cycle, more energy efficient or not. I prefer (so far) the more simple solution as shown in this video. Of course this is my personal subjective opinion based on first impressions only.
@peacefulminimalist2028
@peacefulminimalist2028 Жыл бұрын
@@wimahlers No failure :) read about it
@wimahlers
@wimahlers Жыл бұрын
@@peacefulminimalist2028 I did not say it failed or is a failure. I said it has more points that can (potentially) fail. And I did read about it. Not the Bergen implementation but somewhere else in some other Scandinavian country. I can't remember, it was years ago.
@peacefulminimalist2028
@peacefulminimalist2028 Жыл бұрын
@@wimahlers well I don’t think they would spend so much money if it has the potential to fail. It works great.
@wimahlers
@wimahlers Жыл бұрын
​@@peacefulminimalist2028 Evaluate and compare not now but 30 or so years from now. Which system then shows to be more practical, economical, adaptable, reliable, energy efficient and ecological more sound system. In that context and time frame I tend to believe that the system with the most flexibility and the least components will outperform the more complex system. Note: Above else ... reduce, reuse and longer usage is the preferred approach above any waste management system.
@fjmmc9907
@fjmmc9907 Жыл бұрын
Not only in Amsterdam. In Portugal it is in the whole country. And the underground garbage system is also implemented in all cities.
@paliewallie
@paliewallie Жыл бұрын
In the Netherlands it is also over the whole country. Such a nice system. These simple things make you really value where you live
@anubis9151
@anubis9151 Жыл бұрын
Was just about to comment this.
@justADeni
@justADeni Жыл бұрын
In Czech Republic I have also been seeing more and more of these too. They've almost completely replaced all the recyclable trash containers
@EdwinMartin
@EdwinMartin Жыл бұрын
In the Netherlands we only have it in (big) cities. In smaller villages we have containers (klikos). Interesting fact: we have one for plastic, two for garden and vegetable waste, one for paper and one for residual waste.
@paliewallie
@paliewallie Жыл бұрын
@@EdwinMartin i myself live in a small village (5k residents), we have them too. They are not only in the big cities. Probably depends on the municipality.
@kaelon9170
@kaelon9170 Жыл бұрын
As someone born and raised in Amsterdam, for whom these underground garbage containers are the most normal thing in the world, it was amazing to see you get blown away by them haha.
@WahidahCherazade
@WahidahCherazade Жыл бұрын
Same for me :D We have those underground garbage containers in Sweden as well.
@yunusemreyc
@yunusemreyc Жыл бұрын
This system is present in many places in Turkey too, but the coverage is not spread throughout the entire country. Underground trash bins are mostly found in crowded spots of the cities, and you won't see trash trucks during the day. They primarily operate at night and early in the morning
@JoelMunizVilla
@JoelMunizVilla Жыл бұрын
#5:58 In Spain this is the system we use to get rid of the garbage that is previously classified by the user into at least 4 different types of garbage (I know cities in Japan that use up to eight different classifications for garbage). My hometown has about 40,000 inhabitants and the City Council has implemented this system every 100 meters with 4 different types of hermetically closed communal containers that are emptied every 24 hours. Additionally, each household must pay, depending on the square meters of their property, a municipal tax each year for the maintenance and operation of this system. But you have to understand that in Europe we pay municipal taxes that are used to build sidewalks, pedestrian crossings, public sewers, etc. The most funniest thing is that this system was set up for the local conservative branch party
@tomeullabres5288
@tomeullabres5288 Жыл бұрын
En Mallorca, la mayoría de los pueblos tienen recogida selectiva puerta a puerta de los residuos. Por ejemplo, en mi pueblo recogen la materia orgánica 3 días por semana, el vidrio y el cartón 1 día por semana, los envases de plástico y aluminio 2 veces por semana y la parte no reciclable se recoge 1 vez por semana y debe sacarse con una bolsa concreta que se vende por 1€ aunque el ayuntamiento te regala 1 por semana (así la gente que no recicla y una bolsa no les llega ni para empezar paga más por sus residuos). Eso ha convertido a Baleares en la región de España donde más se recicla de España a una distancia enorme del País Vasco que está en segundo lugar.
@SanderSA-ny3lh
@SanderSA-ny3lh Жыл бұрын
Why would the conservative party be opposed to a functional system? That's more a leftwing thing 'This works, but it's against our ideology so we hate it'.
@DSilver93
@DSilver93 Жыл бұрын
Here in Spain, we have an similar system, in areas without that, there are regular garbage containers were you can get rid of your trash, in must areas the truck comes every day to empty those containers, on my area it comes every night at 0:00(+/-), every weekend, when i sit on my roof to enjoy the end of the day, i know when ist midnight when i see the truck pass the road 😅
@trinir5156
@trinir5156 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, garbage collection in Spain is horribly noisy. Also you have ugly containers on tge street, not underground, where some people drop their trash just aside, on the ground. The mentality of keeping your city clean needs some improvement.
@evr134
@evr134 Жыл бұрын
​@trinir5156 where have you been I Spain??? I think you should not generalise...
@Nabend1402
@Nabend1402 Жыл бұрын
I'm German and I have just returned from my third short trip to the Netherlands this year. While there, I suddenly realised I want to live there. I've been thinking about moving abroad for a while but did not know where. Sweden and Portugal were the front runners. But the Netherlands are such an insanely well designed country. It's so pretty there and everything works so well, I'm going to have to move there. Now I just have to work out the details. Give me 3-5 years.😀
@lolololol7573
@lolololol7573 Жыл бұрын
It’s far from perfect here. But I am happy there are some things we seem to do right. It’s funny because I feel very positive about Germany myself. Heck, lots of other countries surrounding are great.
@halcyon-cg2eb
@halcyon-cg2eb 11 ай бұрын
@@lolololol7573 Yup, the grass is always greener on the other side. However, I DID make the right decision when I moved from Germany to Canada 30 years ago, never regretted it : )
@rudib-5304
@rudib-5304 8 ай бұрын
@@halcyon-cg2eb Well, in 30 years Germany changed a lot for the better. If you ever got the change to visit your 'old' country, you'll be surprised.
@halcyon-cg2eb
@halcyon-cg2eb 8 ай бұрын
@@rudib-5304 Since moving to Canada, I've visited Germany every other year. And yes, you are right, Germany has improved a lot, especially the people, much friendlier than they used to be... Germany is a beautiful country and has a lot of good things going on, however, I still prefer Canada ; )
@sjaakbanaan3011
@sjaakbanaan3011 3 ай бұрын
The good thing about the Netherlands is that everything is regulated. The bad thing about the Netherlands is that everything is regulated.
@joaomiguelsouto7290
@joaomiguelsouto7290 Жыл бұрын
In my country Portugal (Porto)we have both systems for more than 20 years 😂, garbage day is from Monday to Friday, and the same system as in Amsterdam, we call them "eco points" and they are also recycling points and actually it depends on the size of the streets, they can be bigger or smaller garbage disposals and above or underground every 150 meters in average.
@catarinapassos2645
@catarinapassos2645 Жыл бұрын
literally same, here in Braga I have one big all trash bin and two recycling pois about 50 meters away! I was so confused about the trash day thing haha
@Sofiacpinho
@Sofiacpinho Жыл бұрын
Facts!🇵🇹❤
@Ray_Vun
@Ray_Vun Жыл бұрын
yeah, it's the norm now, but it didn't use to be, at least not outside city centers. i remember when i was little, there was specific garbage days. it wasn't just once a week as it appears to be in america, but it depended where you lived, i think in the neighborhood where i grew up, it was mondays, wednesdays and fridays. but i also remember in another house i lived it being like tuesdays and thursdays. probably depends on the population of the area with how much garbage they're likely to make. but now it seems to be every week day
@cesarneves
@cesarneves Жыл бұрын
I second that! Porto neighbor here!
@odraciskatube7725
@odraciskatube7725 Жыл бұрын
we dutch probably stole that idea..you should sue them..us i mean them uff the underground porto idea stealers.
@paulanavarro030110
@paulanavarro030110 Жыл бұрын
I’m from Spain. Everyday is garbage day😂for bigger things like tvs, furnitures, etc you can either call them to pick it up or go to the local “eco park” where you can dispose those things you give them your name and they will discount some money from your garbage taxes.
@JeroenJA
@JeroenJA Жыл бұрын
at reclycling parks you mean? think those have becoma standard in europe? :) in Belgium we were amoung the first to start those up in 90s!
@paulanavarro030110
@paulanavarro030110 Жыл бұрын
@@JeroenJA yes, didn’t know the term in English we call them “Eco parque”
@JeroenJA
@JeroenJA Жыл бұрын
@@paulanavarro030110 sim city used 'reclycling park' the official term in Flander is 'recyclagepark' but almost anyone just say they go to the containerpark , since there are so many containers there to sort in ;)
@W0Ndr3y
@W0Ndr3y Жыл бұрын
Here in Prague we have these underground bins for recycling, some parts of the city might have them for regular trash as well. In the city centre the bins are usually stored inside of the building, either in the yard, garbage can room or special room with access from the street. The garbagemen have the keys to all the buildings they are servicing and take the bins outside themselves. This is paid service tho, so if you don't want to pay, you have to take your bins outside yourself (building owner or management takes care of that).
@dejfcold
@dejfcold Жыл бұрын
Or if you want to have lower rent, you can take care of that.
@W0Ndr3y
@W0Ndr3y Жыл бұрын
@@dejfcold well it depends a lot on where exactly you live.
@idun3694
@idun3694 Жыл бұрын
I once lived in Noord-Brabant , also in the netherlands and there was even a diaper truck that collected diapers from our diaper bins. Really great since they can be really smelly. I didnt envy the driver, though, especially not during the summer
@weertangel7231
@weertangel7231 Жыл бұрын
In the Netherlands this system is used in most cities, mainly for apparment buildings. Normal houses use containers(Klikos) that are seperated in organic and general garbage while paper/cardboard and glass needs to be brought to their own containers that each neighbourhood has, usually at 1 or 2 places. That said, if people are lazy(wich many are) or the underground container is full its not uncommon to see alot of stuff set beside the containers that the city has to clean up as well, wich sucks for them.
@StephFru
@StephFru Жыл бұрын
Here (small town in the Netherlands) we also have containers for plastic and paper😁
@SanderSA-ny3lh
@SanderSA-ny3lh Жыл бұрын
That has very little / nothing to do with lazyness in most cases, but everything with only being able to drop trash off at 1 specific site, that is NOT open outside of office hours and therefore inaccessible. Combined with agressive anti-mobility policies that force people to not have a car, dumping it besides the containers is the only way. I had to get rid of a couch in Utrecht. They basically told me to strap it to my bicycle, take a day off work and cycle for over an hour. Uhm, nope, it got dumped and they took it away normally, like I already paid for. Had to get rid of a very long metal sunscreen box in De Bilt. My appartment didn't have an acces card for the dump side AND the thing doesn't fit in my car. Requesting an acces card cost € 27,50 AND there's a chance of being denied if the previous tenant took his along. Guess what? None of that idiotic nonsense, I dumped it and they took it away normally like I had already paid for. During covid the containers were jammed up half the time because there was too much trash and they decided everybody being at home all the time was a good time to cut back on how often they collected the trash by 50%. Instead of providing the service you pay for, they told you to keep the trash inside your house and wait until they eventually collected it weeks later. Yeah, they demanded that we keep filthy nappies from our baby, inside our 30+ degree appartment, for 3 weeks, so the government workers could be lazy. Guess what? We didn't stand for that shit, dumped and made it rain complaints until the lazy government workers got off their arses and collected it, like they should have to begin with. Cities use the underground container as a method to try and force people against their will, to magically not produce trash so the city can meet political goals. This is where the system breaks down really.
@DenUitvreter
@DenUitvreter Жыл бұрын
The garbagemen are actually quite skilled at using the swing and momentum of the container to get it smoothly back in. I have a 200m walk to my underground container, it's not ideal but I like the system. In my previous appartement block in the city centrewe had to put it out early in the morning because you can't leave them outside overnight with so much night life and drinking close by. We had a temporary storage for 20 appartements at the ground floor, but lots of leaking bags made it smelly. So we put a few planks togehter and filled it with 5 inch of cat litter, so it was absorbed and the dirty cat litter could be scooped out. We got it working but it took a while and that was a very organized appartment block with cooperating neighbours.
@SteveAaron
@SteveAaron Жыл бұрын
In Paris the garbage containers are not underground, but the garbage trucks come everyday of the week, but on Sundays. Although we suffered a huge strike a few months ago, and that was awful….
@fransberkvens5065
@fransberkvens5065 3 ай бұрын
The disadvantages: People try to put oversized bags into the opening and clock it. Result, people cannot dispose and put it next to the container so animals are eating their way into the carbage bags. Another: People "persume" that putting anything next to the container is ok, despite the warnings on the container not to do it. This creates a pile of waiste around the container so that the collectors cannot reach it an let it be causing even bigger problems. It's an okish system but as long as people stick to the rules.
@KlodooB.
@KlodooB. Жыл бұрын
It's so funny to see your reaction, I never would have thought our garbagesystem was so different from yours! ps If Rogier is a Dutch guy, you would pronounce his name Ro - deer but with a (dutch) G.
@RogierTeijgeler
@RogierTeijgeler Жыл бұрын
That's correct Ro-deer but with a G
@damyr
@damyr Жыл бұрын
@@RogierTeijgeler What's a _Dutch G_ ?
@margaretenubaum9089
@margaretenubaum9089 Жыл бұрын
@@damyr Something like: "cccrrr" ;-)
@damyr
@damyr Жыл бұрын
@@margaretenubaum9089 That sounds rough... like Klingon. :)
@gtable
@gtable Жыл бұрын
​@@damyr the closest sound in English is ch like in Bach
@ildikomelindacsabina3291
@ildikomelindacsabina3291 Жыл бұрын
I think it's in all big cities, but I live in a smaller place in the Netherlands and here we have garbage days :D We have different days for different types of garbage. There is a day (once a month) for paper, a day for compost and a day for plastic (every 2 weeks) etc. We do have containers for glass and clothing.... To be sure you don't miss the different garbage days, there's an app that you can get on your phone and it will notify you the night before to put your trash outside.
@kyaxar3609
@kyaxar3609 Жыл бұрын
Deze systeem hebben we bijna 20 jaar in Almelo.
@DonDadda45
@DonDadda45 9 ай бұрын
Same in Germany
@KurtAnderson812
@KurtAnderson812 Жыл бұрын
They are installing this system all over Guadalajara as well. We have separate containers for landfill, plastic and other recycling materials. It’s kinda awesome
@evr134
@evr134 Жыл бұрын
Guadalajara Mexico o España? O alguna otra que se me olvide?😊
@jesperkristensen5875
@jesperkristensen5875 Жыл бұрын
Ryan the American: "How far do I have to walk (with my trash)" I mean, absolute classic, mate :D
@arch4053
@arch4053 Жыл бұрын
You're saying that in America you literally put trash piled up on the street and then a truck comes to pick up each and every pile? And if you fail the timing, then you have to keep the trash at home for 2 weeks? That's.. what. I have no words. You don't have ..dumpsters?
@madbruv
@madbruv Жыл бұрын
Not pile, they have wheelie bins
@squidcaps4308
@squidcaps4308 Жыл бұрын
Yup, and still.. their waste management is not cheaper... they pay the same for a poorer service, say "freedoms!" and that is the end of conversation.
@arnot44
@arnot44 Жыл бұрын
In France, the underground garbage system is recent (~10 years) and only available in big or rich city; because the initial construction cost is high. Smallers towns keep to use the old "garbage day" system with multiple trash bin for recycling.
@escariol
@escariol 11 ай бұрын
smaller towns like Paris, where the garbagemountains, in March this year, where bigger than a garbagetruck :) Due to a labor strike.......
@Matt.98
@Matt.98 Жыл бұрын
Well i live in Italy and I don’t have to worry about garbage day too. I just have the cointainers close to my house (like 50 meters) and then the truck comes to empty them on a weekly basis depending on paper, plastic, organic etc but I don’t have to worry about that
@JustMe-sh8nd
@JustMe-sh8nd Жыл бұрын
Hmmm, so howcome the Netherlands is getting the garbage from Italy? You guy's cannot handle your garbage and we help you so don't spread lies. Italy is a filty country
@petrpinc7695
@petrpinc7695 Жыл бұрын
Here in Czechia are underground garbage containers spreading too. For the most part just for recycling (paper/plastic/glass/aluminium), but better than old, ugly, big bins on 4 wheels. Some towns, like mine, also implemented a collection of biotrash (food leftovers, leaves, small branches, tree bark, cut grass and grass weeds). So next to our normal trash bin we have a biotrash bin. We are only required to pay a annual stamp for emptying of the normal bin.
@KARMA_Camilla
@KARMA_Camilla Жыл бұрын
We have those in Denmark as well. :) Currently, It's primarily used in areas with apartments. If you live in a house you'll most likely still need to put your bins out to the curb for emptying.
@gabbymcclymont3563
@gabbymcclymont3563 Жыл бұрын
IN portugal there are huge bins at the end of streets, so you just bin when you want. Its easy. The bins get cleard when they want.
@damyr
@damyr Жыл бұрын
I also don't have a garbage day. I'm living on the 4th floor of a building. And when I get my bin full, I just empty it through the window into the community yard. It's very convenient. Before anyone asks me... I live in the "Bottom" universe. I also eat lard and make tea with cold water. It's my specialty.
@AL5520
@AL5520 Жыл бұрын
As repeted in the comments, this is the standard system in many place. In Barcelona, like in the rest of the coutry, the system is similar with big containers,not undergroun, for general, organic, plastic, glass and paper an garbage tracks that collect them regularly. There are places with underground ones, like the ones in the video, and in the old city they have a pneumatic waste collection system, which uses vacume tubes to transport the waste to a collection center. On the street there are tube with door, you open the door, throw your bag, close it and the bag is taken away. There are general and recycle tubes. The system has 42 km of tubes and serve about 60,000 people.
@mansonurien
@mansonurien Жыл бұрын
We do the same thing in some cities in Spain too.
@sharonmartin4036
@sharonmartin4036 Жыл бұрын
Taxpayers money well spent, indeed! I have actually seen such systems in a few other European countries as well.
@SergioPipe
@SergioPipe Жыл бұрын
In Portugal he have the same
@alicia.3740
@alicia.3740 Жыл бұрын
In the residential areas in the Netherlands we do use garbage bins. A black one for household waste, a green one for garden waste and a black one with an orange lid for plastic. A green square is painted on the ground at the places where they should be placed on garbage day. There are as many squares as there are houses, so there is a place for everyone. Then it is easy for the driver to pick up the containers with the crane. Fortunately my spot is at the end of my front yard but some people have to walk a few meters. Once a month they collect paper and cardboard, which you can put on the sidewalk.
@branc2658
@branc2658 Жыл бұрын
We have this type of bins also in Italy. Florence for example.
@marcomarco6430
@marcomarco6430 2 ай бұрын
From Milan: different bins for paper, glass, food waste, generic. These are collected at front doors 2 times a week. In addition you can book for free collection of high volume items like furnitures, appliances and the likes. Some groceries have bins for batteries and electronic waste.
@CandyBimatic
@CandyBimatic Жыл бұрын
We had the same system also in Italy (Lake Como area) since 2003 so we are talking about a 20 years old system certainly not new! If anything, the novelty is that we in Italy are removing them because it is an obsolete system: 1 if an animal or a pet gets trapped by mistake it is a problem and it is very sad... 2 during the summer in Italy the temperature rises close to 40°C and that underground bin full of rubbish starts to be a big problem if it is not emptied every day and 3 there is no control if you put the wrong rubbish in the wrong bin… We now have a barcode system connected to your home and printed on the garbage bag that you have to use to throw the garbage. We've gone back to curbside pickup to avoid piling up large quantities of rubbish in one spot and it's much more convenient than having to carry your rubbish all the way to the nearest bin. The maintenance costs of all that old underground bin system starting from the cleaning and disinfection of the pits where the bins were placed to the mechanical problems of the lifting and emptying system of the bins themselves are just a bad memory. Now when you leave the garbage bag outside your home and the collection truck passes, a scanner reads the code on the bag and the garbage is weighed and the type of garbage recorded so the better you are at recycling the more points you earn and the less you pay in taxes . If you make a mistake and throw the garbage in the wrong bag (there are various colors depending on the material to be thrown away, they are semi-transparent so you can see if you put the wrong things in the bag) they know it was you because of the barcode and you are notified of the error. If you keep repeating the same mistake more than three times you will be fined. With this system you are encouraged to recycle correctly, because recyclable materials earn points, and to correctly separate paper, plastic, metal, glass, and the wet fraction (food leftovers) which is used to produce fertilizers. You will also try to produce the least possible amount of non-recyclable garbage because the non-recyclable part provides negative points. The wet fraction and non-recyclable garbage are collected every day during the warmer months and every two days in the colder months. Plastic glass paper and all other recyclable materials that do not rot are collected once a week ... the beauty of this system is that you pay based on your real amount of garbage produced and the more careful you are in dividing and recycling, the less you pay in taxes.
@Bramfly
@Bramfly Жыл бұрын
Not only in Amsterdam but almost all of the Dutch cities have these systems 🌷🌷
@Ray-lw2rh
@Ray-lw2rh Жыл бұрын
We have theses up in the north as well. It’s very common in the most populated cities in Scandinavia
@mariadebake5483
@mariadebake5483 Жыл бұрын
Not in Tilburg
@Krokostad
@Krokostad Жыл бұрын
But outside of cities in smaller villages is the system different? I envy you: Germany and the Netherlands are similar in so many ways but we still have trash bins in front of every house.
@mariadebake5483
@mariadebake5483 Жыл бұрын
@@Krokostad Most houses in the Netherlands still have trash bins. It's only in the larger cities that it's different
@LuukvdHoogen
@LuukvdHoogen Жыл бұрын
I like that you know what you are going to say when you pause the video, that is often why I don't watch reaction videos
@Aoderic
@Aoderic Жыл бұрын
2:40 The reason you see a lot of animals with nice white teeth, is simply because most animals are very young. Racoons rarely live beyond 10 years in the wild, and life expectancy is only about 3 years. So they usually die off before their teeth decay.
@Pipieable
@Pipieable Жыл бұрын
And they dont eat suggar! ;-)
@Aoderic
@Aoderic Жыл бұрын
@@Pipieable Of course not, but even then it takes 3-4 years to completely ruin your teeth with heavy sugar intake, so most of those wild animals would have died, before their teeth would have decayed from sugar.
@quickschweezy
@quickschweezy Жыл бұрын
In Denmark, in my city, we've had this since 90's. Not with the same tech that tells the industry when the containers are full, ours is not that fancy, but we have used underground storage for a very long time
@akyhne
@akyhne Жыл бұрын
Oh, no! Don't tell that to Not Just Bikes. He thinks everything he shows on his channel about Amsterdam, is world's first or unrivaled by others. He also thinks the Danish bike system and roads sucks. He's kind of a dick. We have similar systems, like in the video, in Horsens. On my street, we've had them for maybe 6-8 years. And I've seen them in Aarhus as well, at least in the inner city. What city do you live in?
@Jo_Kuiper
@Jo_Kuiper 3 ай бұрын
We have the same system in Groningen, but here you need a pass to open your closest container, exept for paper, glas and textile, those are free to use anywhere in the city.
@hondaspeed6785
@hondaspeed6785 Жыл бұрын
We have these things too in our smaller town not to far from Amsterdam, for non recyclable garbage. And at some locations also for glass, plastic and paper. And then 3 rolybins ( i think that’s what they are called in English); 1 for compostables, 1 for paper and 1 for plastics and metals. Fancy that jolly bunch when you have only a small garden or yard! They empty them alternately every other week on Friday and one of them on Thursday. It’s a pain to keep track of that. And then also walk your garbage bag with non-recyclables to the underground container. Which can be out of service because it’s broken or full. In that case, many people dump the bag next to it, which makes it look like a dump (pun intended). We live in a tidy neighborhood. But in Amsterdam it is often really a dump near the containers. So, still just as horrible as it used to be when you really had a garbage day. This channel ‘not just bikes’ paints the picture rosier than it actually is. They often do. Although sometimes they have interesting subjects.
@adriankolsters
@adriankolsters Жыл бұрын
Yep, same in Spain
@Ray_Vun
@Ray_Vun Жыл бұрын
we have those in portugal. they're not everywhere tho, it's mostly in the richer areas of cities, and also where infrastructure allows for it to be build. in most places, we have giant garbage containers outside, they're basically on every neighborhood, so that they're accessible to everyone. and the garbage trucks pass by every day to collect them. idk about other places, but where i'm currently living, it really helped with the stray animals situation, as the garbage would literally just be sitting by the curb and stray cats and dogs would rip them open to get food. now there's no strays around because there's no food for them to get, since even in the garbage containers, they can't open them, they're too tall for an animal to reach, and even if the animal could reach it, they wouldn't be able to open them
@Jeni10
@Jeni10 Жыл бұрын
ROTFL! The subtitles said “um stirred um” 😂😂😂🇦🇺
@kanina52
@kanina52 Жыл бұрын
Denmark has similar to Canada (though picked up every week) + some of these underground types, I was quite in awe the first time I saw the underground one being emptied for the first time at my dormitory in Copenhagen😊
@RealConstructor
@RealConstructor Жыл бұрын
We had those underground garbage system for over 10 years at my apartment complex, but only for residual waste. And with we needed a chipcard to open the garbage input column. The municipality wanted to use the smart system for diftar (differentiated tariffs). That means they weigh the garbage and you pay according to the weight of residual waste. I now moved to a new house and am back to using roller bins again (4 ones: 1 for residual waste, 1 for GFT, vegetables, fruit and garden waste, one for paper and cardboard and 1 for PMD, plastic, metal cans and drink cartons). But our municipality has an app with notifications for different collection days, so I never forget garbage days. Tomorrow, on Saturday it will be paper and cardboard, at 19.00 I got the notification and I just put the roller bin at the roadside.
@idkusername2795
@idkusername2795 Жыл бұрын
In Switzerland there are also a lot of these, even in extremely small villages in the alps you will have bins in a range of a 2 min walk
@buffyandcalleigh
@buffyandcalleigh Жыл бұрын
In Spain we have this containers too . Not in all the cities but everytime i see it in more places.
@VikingCoffie
@VikingCoffie Жыл бұрын
Where I live we have these nice looking pipes coming out of the ground at every home, and (here) 12 of them are connected to a central point. The car "sucks" the garbage to the central point and into the car. Sort of vacuuming all of the garbage bags.
@denken7208
@denken7208 Жыл бұрын
It’s not all roses. Until recently at least I think there was garbage days. Also, the truck empties the bins 1-2 per week and of you don’t throw away your trash, often they get full and you risk a big fine and trust me they find you. It’s also fun if you lose your chip card for the trash bin and can’t throw away your trash.
@LizzieJaneBennet
@LizzieJaneBennet Жыл бұрын
Waow, this makes proud of my little town of 9401 unhabitants of Foix, Occitanie, France 🇨🇵! All the medieval center town is equiped with this system. This video makes me realize how smart and clean this is. 👍
@fzoid3534
@fzoid3534 Жыл бұрын
But.. I just was in Amsterdam - beautiful city but in the center especially in the small old streets they piled up cartons and paper trash for days.
@MisterJ56
@MisterJ56 Жыл бұрын
Probably from surroundind shops. Usualy they pile up these things and collect them later for disposal (not enough store-space?)
@fzoid3534
@fzoid3534 Жыл бұрын
@@MisterJ56 probably. It was in front of shops but there's one shop next to another so you had one pile next to another. It was just weird because you have a city that's otherwise pretty clean.
@MisterJ56
@MisterJ56 Жыл бұрын
@@fzoid3534 Shops probably run by foreigners (just joking). Shopkeepers have to be careful because they can get a (large) fine.
@87vortex87
@87vortex87 8 ай бұрын
I actually helped develop the actual compactor that you see in this video. The newest versions have not only the compactor and load signaling, but also can unstuck themselves, have Ozon generators inside to keep the smell down, high frequency sound waves to keep kids from climbing in it, and the indoor versions are cooled like a fridge to add an additional layer of technology to keep the smell down. Each container communicates with the truck what the load is, so that truck traffic is minimized for increases road safety to only collect when timing is perfect.
@ilesalmo7724
@ilesalmo7724 Жыл бұрын
Some places even have underground pneumatic tubes from the points you put your trash to a central location. It's cheaper for the garbage-trucks to collect one big load than go around collecting individual bins
@BennoWitter
@BennoWitter Жыл бұрын
Germany has those underground containers for certain types of recyclables and there is always one idiot that is too lazy to fold or cut his cardboard boxes and clogs up the whole thing so nobody else can use it, because people think it's already full. But, they will always leave all of the trash in front of the bins, even stuff that wouldn't be collected there. They think, if the city has to clean up this mess anyway, they might as well pick up all the other garbage that I leave there.
@SilverScroll
@SilverScroll Жыл бұрын
Yesssss more Not Just Bikes. I clicked immediately!
@sallycostello8379
@sallycostello8379 Жыл бұрын
We have these in London too. It's so much better but even though they come weekly it does get full sometimes. There are different coloured ones for recycling. When full they bring along huge reinforced white bags/containers. Still don't worry about garbage day - it's a good system.
@kalliemj
@kalliemj Жыл бұрын
when they said it was underground I imagined a series of tunnels where a truck would drive underground and pick up the trash that would just pile up down there like a garbage shoot. Or maybe it would drop onto a conveyer belt and move on its own to the landfill. This is basically just a trash can that tells the truck when to come and get it which is essentially what we have in America just more frequent if necessary
@sikandarjaved9953
@sikandarjaved9953 Жыл бұрын
Interesting timing, my apartment complex just got those installed a few days ago! I live in Latvia
@lolololol7573
@lolololol7573 Жыл бұрын
They have these in smaller farmers villages as well. It has shown to be cheaper for most municipalities and is efficient because they only have to go when necessary which saves fuel and time. The only downside is you have to walk. That’s it. Because the upside is - especially if you live in an apartment- and it’s hot and there is risk of issues with maggots because of the heat, you just go more often. I usually take it with me when I walk to my car to go to work, which is next to the parking lot. So it’s not that big of a deal.
@rationalwho
@rationalwho Жыл бұрын
In my hometown of ~20k people in northern Greece we have underground bins in key locations, but they have a lift mechanism and garbagemen will just activate the mechanism and roll them to the garbage truck. no crane needed
@SeanLumly
@SeanLumly 10 ай бұрын
Because people walk and cycle, taking out the trash is just carrying a small bag when you leave, and dropping it in the nearest bin, rather than storing it for collection. This is similar to an apartment complex with a chute -- just throw it out on the way out. It's WAY more efficient than mass collection on a schedule, and easier for people as they don't really have to think about it.
@reneedevry4361
@reneedevry4361 Жыл бұрын
I live in Ottawa Canada. In densly populated neighbourhoods, like where I live, these are very common. We have 3 big bins above ground, one for trash, cardboard, and glass/metal but below ground is about 10 times larger. They are all very close to walk to. Biggest change is to get into the habit of frequent drop off of kitchen catcher sized bags instead of waiting until one has enough garbage to fill a huge garbage bag. 🤣 Ours are not as modern or nice looking as the Dutch ones but work great.🥰🇨🇦
@renevaanhold
@renevaanhold 4 ай бұрын
The big advantage of the Netherlands is that the soil consists only of sand and clay and no rocks. That's why it's quite easy to put everything underground. You don't see any cables above the ground.
@dillon17
@dillon17 Жыл бұрын
This is the same in Spain, large cities have underground ones, and if they arent underground, they are massive containers, and the garbage truck comes EVERY DAY.. :)
@chrissmith7669
@chrissmith7669 Жыл бұрын
I’m Germany they’ve started installing them. When they came by to empty them You could hear it a block away thanks to the recycling ones full of glass.
@CasGroenigen
@CasGroenigen 11 ай бұрын
I live in a town about 20 minutes from Amsterdam, and we also have these containers, but a little less. And we also do have garbage day
@jaks4164
@jaks4164 9 ай бұрын
This is in whole the Netherlands. Containers under the ground. Apart glass, old clothes, papers and metal. You have not to walk far, in every district is this, you can walk it. In little places with a garden, we have also 2 containers, one for green (2 × per month) and one for plastics (1 x month). We have to pay a little tax to our local government.
@DJone4one
@DJone4one Жыл бұрын
Well, we don't have that here in the city either. Our municipal or public bins in the pedestrian zone in the city centre also have an underground container. Apart from that, it's quite normal here. Every week or every 14 days, depending on the contract and the household. Whether yellow bin, cardboard and paper or residual waste. We don't have organic waste, although I think other districts or regions around us have made organic waste compulsory. But I think you can book it as well.
@Hey.Joe.
@Hey.Joe. Жыл бұрын
Now I want this in Germany too in my street. No more keeping an eye on a full schedule plan for every type of garbage and not to miss them or to collect the trash until the actual garbage day, because of full bin. Well done Amsterdam! 👌
@cayreet5992
@cayreet5992 Жыл бұрын
One hundred percent. Just dropping off garbage on the way elsewhere would be so much better.
@Pidalin
@Pidalin Жыл бұрын
Here in Czechia, many smaller cities are actually switching to that stupid model that everyone has his own bins and you have to put them at street when it's garbage day, it's totaly ridiculous for someone born in Prague where you just take your trash and give it to nearest containers at street and you don't have to care about some nonsenses like moving with your bins. Their motivation is to force people separate correctly and have less garbage, I get that, but I still don't agree with this system, when you live somewhere where it's not even officialy living space, you don't have any bins and since they remove bins from streets in smaller cities, you have no place where to put that! And when you walk at street and you finish some drink, all bins are locked, I am surprised there are no machineguns guarding it and shooting everyone who want to throw away some bottle, so I guess it's better to throw it on ground or to garden of such person with locked trash can. 😀 It's starting be like in Japan here that you walk 2 km with stupid bottle and looking for bin. These things like garbage bins should be paid from taxes directly from your salary or something and you would not have to care where you are and what bin is that if it's your or public or something, just throw it somewhere else than to forest, that's the most important I guess. Some people are always like "look, he has such a garbage at his garden" but what are those people supposed to do that all that garbage? You can't put it to trash can or it's to big or something, garbage company just doesn't want it, so these villagers are just collecting it and then burning. It's terrible, but they are pretty much forced to do that by those fuckers in city halls. They should more like punish e-shops for their stupid packages where you have one USB flash disk and it's in box like 1x1x1m filled with bubble foil, I totaly hate that! The "best" expert to that is your German Conrad shop, I was once complaining about that and they told me that it's packed automaticaly by some robot or something and they can't do anything with that, so I guess I will throw that bubble foil into some river which is going to Germany, I can't do anything with that and don't provoke me because there is Elbe near from my home, so I can really do it. 😀 One good example is our Alza.cz shop, they started puting products to their AlzaBoxes (we have them literally everywhere at streets) without any extra packages and I really like that, but those modern market places like Allegro (which is buying our shops sadly) is trying to destroy everything, it will be like ordering from China, you order 10 products and you will get 10 different packages, it's ridiculous. But that's probably already offtopic, I just wanted to complain about something because I am Czech.
@StevenQ74
@StevenQ74 Жыл бұрын
We have this in Rotterdam as well and it's actualy cheaper than normal garbage pickup, also because you only need 1 person on the truck when normal garbage collection needed 3. These underground containers are have sensors in them that tell the city when they are full, and are emptied even in the weekend when they are full.
@s.b.907
@s.b.907 Жыл бұрын
5:37 50 meters, so about 50 steps, depending on your stride. 😉 It is not only the big cities that have them. I live in a village and we have both bins and underground bins. Normal houses have bins and have to put the bins on the sidewalk on garbage day. I live in an apartment and all apartment buildings in our village have the underground contraption. One more thing, it looks like that in Amsterdam you can throw away your garbage for free. In my case, the contraption can only be opened with an access card. And every time the card is used it is counted in a system and I get a bill once a year from the municipality. In the bins the houses have there is a chip that does the same. So it is very frowned upon if you put your garbage into somebody else’s bin. 😂
@5688gamble
@5688gamble 6 ай бұрын
Both space agencies originally did use pencils. The reason they wanted a pen is because of all the flakes and chips of graphite that could come off of the pencil and end up just floating around, you didn't want graphite particles getting into everything, especially not your electronics as it is conductive, you don't generally want small particles floating around and clogging stuff up or getting in your way! If crumbs are irritating in normal gravity, imagine it if they are just floating around!
@darkknight8139
@darkknight8139 Жыл бұрын
An excellent video about an excellent garbage collection system. Here in Utrecht (Netherlands), garbage collection depends on where you live. In the suburbs, you can only find this kind of trash bins, there is no garbage day. In the historic city centre, roads are not suitable for the garbage trucks shown in the video, so people have to put garbage on the street and it will be picked up with even smaller garbage trucks. Nearby the canals, garbage is sometimes picked up by boat. And finally, there are some neighborhoods with big apartment buildings; each building has its own garbage aisle somewhere near the general entrance of the building. There are giant bins over there, and they will be regularly emptied. Still a garbage day, but not for people living there. You just bring your garbage down to the entrance and put it in one of the bins. I live at the edge of town. I I have to bring glassware to the bins 200 meters from my house. For compost and paper I still have a garbage can that is picked up once in two weeks (fortnightly). And for regular trash, there are three of the bins shown in the video within a 50 meters walk. A bit of a weird combination, but it works.
@robertedel306
@robertedel306 Жыл бұрын
here in our town in Switzerlad we do have the same system. You have bin for green waste and regular waste and it will be hauled away underground
@NaturalDutchSpirit
@NaturalDutchSpirit 7 ай бұрын
I live in a small beach town in Holland. I live in a normal rowhouse. We have 3 bins (green, paper, waste), We hang a plastic bag on the light pole (plastic/metal containers). schedule has become crazy, at least we have an app with push notifications.
@beldin2987
@beldin2987 Жыл бұрын
Funny, i came from your northern german video, to a german video where the first was a "Moin, moin" and where we should voted for our favorite Guardians of the Galaxy character, which for me was Rocket Rackoon, just to come back here to see a Rackoon 😄
@kevartje1295
@kevartje1295 Жыл бұрын
I live in a village, we have underground bins too but not for paper, plastic and greens, we still get a visit from the truck for those. You can put stuff in that doesn't fit the paper, plastic or greens desciption tho, and there's a seperate one for glass one for dar glass and one for clear glass. The underground bins are like, a 100 meter walk from my house and there's only one in the neighborhood. thats not too bad if you do your recycling well, you have to go ther once in 3 weeks.
@greetjeb7030
@greetjeb7030 Жыл бұрын
In my town in the Netherlands we do have garbage day, for the recycling stuff, like paper, plastic and garden/food waste. For the rest an underground container. Glass we have to take to an other container near the supermarket.
@ArchieArpeggio
@ArchieArpeggio Жыл бұрын
In Finland we have recycle bins and thras almost evrything in every apartmentstore building. Sometimes group of buildings share them bins together. Anyway only broblem waste and furnituse are those kind of things that you have to get somewhere special rycycle area. Bigger cities also has lots of smaller bins that are designed so that birds can´t easily make a mess. Of course if those are too full, then the birds can get some of the thrashes out of the bin and make a mess.
@OmervandenBelt-vm2qz
@OmervandenBelt-vm2qz Жыл бұрын
Since we live in a single family home we do have garbage bins. A black one for rest waste, a blue one for paper waste and a green one for vegetables, fruit etc. And a holder for bags to collect plastic, drink cartons etc in. We have an app from our local garbage collecting company that shows what is picked up at what date. You can set that app to remind you the evening before, which garbage will be picked up the next day.. For the plastic garbage I've to walk 300 feet to a big container that's above ground. 0,4 miles from our home there is a grocery store with underground garbage bins on its parking lot for plastic, glas and paper.
@jackwalker4874
@jackwalker4874 5 ай бұрын
Where I live in the UK our general waste only gets collected once a month. If you forget to put the bin out, it'll be a while before the next collection day.
5 күн бұрын
Yeah underground containers are very common in Europe. I'm from a small city in Spain and we've have since two decades ago.
@matsv201
@matsv201 Жыл бұрын
Those underground bins are quite common around central europe. But its amature hour compare to how its handled in nordic countrirs. The solution with underground bins dont work as well in nordic due to the cold weather. So how its handled is with a underground pipe system colecting all the garbage dor a full part od then city (like 20-30 blocks) into an central bulding, typicallt close to a bus stop. Then a gigantic 5 axel garbage truck come driving on the dedicated buss road, conect to the small building and suck the garbage out of it.
@tomeullabres5288
@tomeullabres5288 Жыл бұрын
In most of Europe, you will never need to walk more than 50 yards from your house in order to leave your garbage, an that's in cities. In small towns like where I live, I just leave the garbage in the front door and it's picked up dayly except for saturday night. And in the nearest big cityu they used to have a pneumatic garbage system. It was like these underground containers but instead of picking the garbage with a truck when the container is full, it had a pressurized air system that transported the garbage to the treatment facilities.
@TuckingFypos59
@TuckingFypos59 Жыл бұрын
Not only in Amsterdam it is the same all over the Netherlands
@mavadelo
@mavadelo Жыл бұрын
The name is not a miss spelling, it is the Dutch version of Roger, the sound of ie is the same sound you make when saying the letter E (as in just the letter when reciting the alphabet)
@101steel4
@101steel4 Жыл бұрын
It was such an "American " comment 😂
@ThisTrainIsLost
@ThisTrainIsLost Жыл бұрын
I used to have a "space pen" (which is just a ballpoint pen with modified ink that is pressurised with nitrogen) that worked great. I presume it continued to work great after I lost it. I'm great at losing stuff. Lend me a battleship for a weekend and by Monday morning I'd've lost it.
@Krokostad
@Krokostad Жыл бұрын
In my area in Germany there is an App that reminds me, when I have to take which garbage bin out.. Paper is getting emptied every 4 weeks, plastic every 2 weeks, rest garbage also every 2 weeks. The bio garbage every 2 weeks in summer, every 4 weeks in winter. It's easy to miss a date so I am so glad to have this app 😂 I wish we had Amsterdams system because often the garbage bin smells bad in summer.
@pim1234
@pim1234 Жыл бұрын
The street as in at 6:40 is a normal Dutch street, they are everywhere. Everything in the Netherlands is taken care of, just search a vid about our biker lanes or the parking garages for bikes. But Americans don't want to pay taxes ... so you don't have these things ...
@markeeecmarkoni2855
@markeeecmarkoni2855 Жыл бұрын
Same in Croatia.....trash day for 4 types of trash, bio trash, plastic and other, paper, mixed trash... we have containers in the city as well as in Amsterdam only the whole city is not yet covered, but only the center
@moonliteX
@moonliteX Жыл бұрын
i've never heard of garbage day here in finland and i'm 45
@roguekiller23231
@roguekiller23231 Жыл бұрын
The joke about the space pen, people don't realize you don't want bits of highly conductive graphite floating about in a 0G cabin floating in space.
@bastiwen
@bastiwen Жыл бұрын
In Switzerland there are places with a garbage day but not everywhere. Where I live we also have big underground containers.
@Frahamen
@Frahamen Жыл бұрын
In whole my live, I've never needed to worry about garbage day. When I moved away from my parents, I moved to an apartment where you put your garbage in a designated large bin in the basement and the cleaning company handles it. Now I live in a co-housing project with similar system. You put it in a large container next to the neighborhood pavilion, and team garbage puts them on the street when it's garbage day.
@MrSpeeddevil666
@MrSpeeddevil666 Жыл бұрын
Here in the Netherlands it differs per municipality. I live in Venlo and here they just have normal garbage collection day and at apartments they have those underground containers.
@francescar.c.3131
@francescar.c.3131 Жыл бұрын
We have the same system in lugano (Switzerland) but the container's "mouth" is a bit different .. others smaller towns still have alternate garbage days and big containers outside home but I think they will be substituted with the underground one in the next years 🚮♻⬇🗑🏞🍫
@kristakammeraat7949
@kristakammeraat7949 Жыл бұрын
in the city Almere 20 km from Amsterdam we have al the public street garbage bins connected to a big vacuum system so they empty them selfs 2 times a day
@MLWitteman
@MLWitteman Жыл бұрын
This system can be found throughout the Netherlands, not just in Amsterdam. I live in Haarlem, and I’ve got a garbage container like this just around the corner.
@sobanya_228
@sobanya_228 5 ай бұрын
When I was watching that video for the first time, I had no idea what is a garbage day.
@reiniervisser291
@reiniervisser291 Жыл бұрын
This system is not avalible in the centrum in Amsterdam. We put ore garbage two times a week at the side of the street. We have a system in the centrum for glass and paper containers. But I use the old fashion garbage bag on the side of the road.
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