Instead of making benches inaccessible to the homeless, my city has installed normal benches alongside trashcans with a special shelf where you can place empty bottles, so those in need can pick them up and collect the bottle deposit (typically EUR 0.5).
The sign says "pass it on".
I love that. ♥️
@randahl For a city the size of Vejle, there are relatively few homeless people, and they are generally nowhere near as disruptive as in some cities.
Vejle even provides a gathering space just near the hospital if I recall ...
@rhempel
Have you seen homeless people being disruptive in other cities?
My only experiences of unhoused folk in any city I've visited are that they sit or lie quietly on concrete footpaths because they have nowhere better to rest, sometimes with signs up asking for money because they need to eat. I've never seen them be disruptive.
@alchemist @randahl Germany has had a deposit on bottles and cans for decades. Some cities and some private initiatives have put up similar bottle holders on trash cans or lamp masts.
There's also a campaign advocating to put the deposit containers next to the trash cans, with several beverage companies printing it on the bottles: https://www.pfand-gehoert-daneben.de/partner/
But it's quite common to do that anyways, and has been before that campaign.
@Baken16 this is in the city centre of my municipality Vejle
It is home to 123,000, with many citizens living in the suburbs.
It is in South Denmark on the peninsula of Jutland, a 90 minute drive from the German border.
@notsoloud
Yeah, but housing first fixes homelessness.
Finland established that point pretty conclusively. It’s far less expensive to provide people with the fundamental of mental health and economic stability.
@the_q your assumption that this trashcan system illustrates the extent of our help to the poor is wildly off.
In Denmark, everyone is entitled to financial aid from the state, and in Vejle er have an awesome housing project for the homeless. It offers mini rental homes with gardens for eur 600 / month, which matches the public subsidies for the unemployed.
@randahl
I'm in the NL now and i only get 0.15 euros per bottle, where do you go to return them? 8-0
I've seen a few of those too though and they're very cool 👍
@randahl
I'm looking at a receipt from the supermarket. I bought a few drinks, 15c statiegeld each. I used the robot to return 3, got a 45c credit. It ain't 50 cents is all im saying. Nobody in NL cares about 15 cents so they still toss them in the trash everywhere i go.
I'm a German resident where the deposit is 25c, 4 makes a euro, so people are SERIOUS about returning / donating cans and bottles.
I am not knocking the NL, love the country and its diverse people. But .15 cents isn't enough.
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