Between the old couch and the broken fridge, the child’s clothes boxes and cassette boxes, the hidden treasure dot on the streets of Berlin. In a search collection of unpublished goods, Berlin composer Anso Theman discovered a new favorite writer.
Haruki Murakami books were left out with the label “Two Give Away.” Meaning “Gift to Gift”, this is a tradition that has long seen the burrliners that they leave their recoverable goods on the window edge and take them in front of the houses for others. And take, they do. Often within a few minutes.
Theman said, “I was very happy when I came back in 2013, of that kind.” “Most people don’t just throw the garbage out – this is a good thing and it is enriching the Noverthbor.”
But as Berlin plans to fix people to keep goods on the road, this informal circular economy can become a matter of past. The city’s environment department argues that while the idea behind leaving things out to take others is “good and desirable,” this “leads excesses that do not correspond to the original intentions.” And cleaning is not a cheap-final year, it is to remove nonsense about € 10.3 million ($ 12.8 million) in the city, including e-waste and construction garbage, which dumped without authority.
A spokesman for the department told DW, “It should be clarified that the item on the road does not release itself responsibly for the subject, now I am getting rid of it on the lines of ‘I removed it’.”
Berlin increased his fine
Last year, Berlin City Cleaning Company (BSR), city garbage and recycling contractor, said it cleaned 54,000 cubic mitters of illegal waste found in Berlin, which is 8% a year. Officers see the main culprits in the form of construction waste disposal firms that are looking to save money.
A BSR spokesperson said, “Heavy fine is necessary because” the stubborn garbage can often be reached through its purse, “a BSR spokesman said the problem is worse in Somai districts than others.
But the punishment, which are due to being effective in the coming weeks, want to apply to other items left at the street. For example, in the central district of Frederichen-Crazburg, no one except clothes or dias, for example, can expect a fine from € 150 to € 300 from the current fines between € 25 and € 75.
A district spokesman said residential dumping equipment such as refrigerators and washing machines could be killed with a fine between € 1,000 and € 15,000. The rate was maximum at € 5,000 earlier.
How realistic are punishment?
The idea is that the penalty will either be released by the Plaincloth Field Staff or will result from witnesses that go online to report dumping. But Berliner is not sure new punishment can be applied.
“They go out and they find a mattress and then what?” The Berlin-based organization asks the co-founder Marien Kuhalman, the co-founder of the circulatory that helps businesses to reduce their waste. “There is a possibility that they will catch the person in the moment when he puts the mattress super lower.”
“To find people, it wants to be difficult until people take their business cards inside the box,” Theman said.
A more formal circular economy
BSR argues that residents can use other routes so that they no longer want.
BSR spokesman Sebastian Harnisk told DW, “No one is forced to leave his garbage on the road in our city.” “Heavy waste, electronic waste, and other waste is available for private individuals to get rid of free or low cost.”
Thesis, he says, Neberhood Swap Days, one of the 14 recycling centers in the city and one second hand store, named “N” againOnce again. For that option, they provide a pick-up service to an angel.
A ‘short -sighted’ policy
However, the lawyers of stability say that this is not a point. He argues that formal drop-off points are less attractive to those who cannot drive or do not have a car.
Doris Nickmeyer, the patron of a zero waste city in Berlin’s non-Profit Zero West Varin, fear that the city’s crack may result in sick results.
“Those who are afraid of being fined in future can now throw good, usable things in the compartment as it is easier and convenient than the draft through the city to still donate them.”
So the dumping bread exposes the lacquer of discrimination between the site that is unlikely to be reconciled, and a box of lightly used clothing can be excluded at the end that can be stretched before the day.
“Naming those who take environmental responsibility in the same sentence with the pollutants who avoid responsibility, is highly problematic,” said noicameyer.
How well is Berlin doing waste recycling?
In 2021, Berlin unveiled his zero waste 2030 strategy, stating that “raw materials should be reused continuously and recycled to make new products as long as possible.”
By the end of the decade, the city aims to recycle 64% of the construction waste and reduce residual waste volume by 20%.
Pledge and establishing a zero-probation agency within the BSR put Berlin on the right path, but the 2024 report of the Intergavarnamental Organization for economic cooperation and development states that the city’s “devastation on the Bhasmization remains higher, and the national average is the rates behind the average.”
Cities such as Madrid, Brussels, Copenhagen and Lajublazana have begun to reduce their dependence on all inciting their dependence or dismissed the plan to manufacture new plants to reduce carbon hosions by burning garbage.
Nickmeyer proposed to Berlin to maintain “culture” on each road or with places dedicated to giveaways in each neighborhood.
Kuhalman said, “You have to find a balance between the community to make it easier and promote a shared culture, but it has to be understood that this is a real problem for the city because it is one million dollars every year to clean the roads.”
Edited by: Tamsin Walker