Recycling Culture

Firstly, I  should say that in my first days here I were shocked because here all young and older people goes to recycle cans and plastic bottles to a certain machines. My surprised was capital when I see that the machine "rewarding" you with money! For every can they give you 15 cents! 

In my opinion, this is a great system that encourage people to recycle more and more. In my country we don´t have this type of system and we need more effort in the authorities specially politicians who have a poor formation about climate change and recycling culture. Finnish Government say that beverage container recycling programmes work well because of a monetary deposit system. Recovery rates are near 100 percent. "For recyclable aluminium beverage cans and plastic bottles, recovery rates are 96 percent and 94 percent. Finland also leads the way on paper recycling with a recycling rate of 93 percent in 2011, which is very high by European standards".

Their infrastucture to recycle paper is amazing, every apartment blocks and house have their own handy shared collection points for paper, organic waste and, increasingly, cardboard and cartons, making recycling easy. Even in my student residence we have big containers of every type of material to deposit all the rubbish.

Finally, Finnish have to be proud of their recycling culture and this has to embarras other countries whose politicians do not take severe measures to clean up the waste. We are in time to reverse the situation by imitating countries like Finland

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