When buying a beverage in a bottle or can in the Netherlands (and elsewhere), you pay a small “fee” for the beverage container that you get back, if you return the it. Usually 15 or 25 cents. With all the empty containers we find in the wild, 50 cents or 1 euro could be more effective. Thoughts?

If you want to join the cleanup effort, ask your municipality, if you can get a grabber for free. I know you can in Utrecht. But you can buy them for relatively cheap as well 😃

Kilometer 3: a scarf, a cleaning rag, tissue, candy wrappers, bottles, cans and more plastic. In total we collected 5 bottles worth of trash today 😃

Kilometer 2: bottles and cans. Directly next to a trash can.

Kilometer 1: 2 full buckets of trash. soda cans, bottles, a retractor, a Rubics cube, cigarette packs, cigarette butts and plastic, plastic, plastic