new to germany and still figuring out the trash system here. i went to the Kaufland and asked one of the workers, she said there's no "fund" for these, I'm not sure what that meant.. when i tried to put them in the glass dispenser it wouldn't take it! help please 🙇‍♀️ i'm drowning in glass!!

by indie_aquarius

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  1. In a Glascontainer, there usually are a couple of places per town to throw away your glas.

  2. He meant there’s no Pfand for them. Pfand is the bottle deposit that you get back when you put the right kind of bottles in the machine. No Pfand = the machine won’t accept it.

    You can bring glass containers that don’t have Pfand to any Altglascontainer. Just search Google maps and you’ll find some. Make sure to sort by color and don’t throw glass away during Ruhezeit. 

  4. This is fun! Because all you have to do is to put your glass containers in the Glascontainer 🥳

  5. Remove the lid – then Glas in a glass Container and the lid in the green box or yellow plastic bag depends on where you live

  6. What they meant is Pfand, like a deposit on a bottle. This is quite difficult to figure out for new users I guess, but there are numerous guides on the Internet two the German Pfand system.

    As for your Glas bottles, there should be Glas containers in various locations around you, where you can get rid of them. They usually look like little domes and indicate the colour of the bottles you’re supposed to throw in there. Feel free to ask away

  7. You don’t throw them away.

    You remove the label, wash the glass containers and then store them in a cupboard in the cellar. You say the old German saying: “Viel zu schade zum wegschmeißen! Sowas kann man immer mal gebrauchen!”

    It is important that you also wash the lids, but store them separately from the jar in a box, all lids thrown together. So that later, when you really need a certain jar, you won’t find the box with the lids or at least not the right lid for your jar.

    That´s the german way.

  8. Deckel/cap goes in yellow bin.
    Glass into the container with “white/Weißglas”

  9. I love this! I moved here from Australia and had to learn that glass bottles like this have to be taken to glass recycling places. There’s lots around every suburb, usually close to a supermarket or park.
    And Pfand (from drink bottles) will have a little logo, showing that there’s a refund available on it. You’ll get it, and welcome to Germany!

  11. Altglascontainer. There are three colors (white, brown, green).

  13. No you need to keep them in case you ever maybe want to store something in them! Its the german way.

  14. there are these yellow boxes you can google called Briefkasten

    throw them in there lol

    (jk jk pls don’t do this)

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