Recycling...

I’m getting used to make a fool out of myself, so here is today’s story:

In Portugal we recycle almost every packaging waste. It’s very easy, you just have to separate the glass, the paper/cardboard and the plastics, and then go to a recycling bin and dispose it.

In Holland, we have to remember what we bought where, because you have to return the packages to the shop where you bought it! But at least you get a discount in your shopping.

Today I finally decided to take the bottles to recycle, we had so much bottles, mainly glass bottles…So I got on my bike with the heavy bag and I had to go in to the shop to the deliver the bottles, but most of them I had to bring home again (again mainly the glass ones).

I don’t really understand yet, because I’m sure that the beer is the same (I don’t know where my boyfriend bought them). The big bottles of coca-cola  where accepted, but not the little one, and I know for sure that I bought it there…

I had to return home with most of the stuff back, plus the shopping! :S

My partner could have said something when I told him I would go there to return the bottles…


P.S.: Even returning the bottles to the supermarket machines, there was so much plastic waste that we would throw out. It was making me sad. Just 3 weeks after I arrived, my partner gave me a letter that the city hall sent in the beginning of the year. He says that he kept the letter for me because he noticed that there was a "cute plastic bag". The letter explained what to do with the plastic waste! Argh!