8 Dutch habits that have made me more sustainable - American in the Netherlands

Since moving to Europe, in my case, the Netherlands from the United States, I have noticed a change in some of my habits that have led me to living more sustainably (by accident!). In this video, I share some of those Dutch habits with you and parts of society in the Netherlands that have helped bring about this change.
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I like to share my experiences of an American expat in the Netherlands. I describe both the unique and everyday aspects of Dutch culture, and life in Holland while enjoying every bit of it!
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[@weeardguy]

3:35: the best sign that you have been Netherlandised: Complaining about trains and delays ;)

[@vanessaheesen8154]

On the clothes thing. When I first entered the office world in the US, I actually started at a company that required "business formal." Now, being just starting out and on a pretty tight budget, I got myself a pair of nice suites (that I'd switch out weekely) and 5-7 blouses (that I'd switch out daily). I was actually pulled assid by my manager after a few weeks and told I needed to get more clothes because "the same suit even 2 days in a row was inappropriate," so there is DEFINITELY pressure in the US to wear something different all the time. (This is one of the many reasons I'm MUCH happier here in the Netherlands!)

[@mahumia]

I know right? I got a complaint because I dared to wear the same pair of trousers for two days... I mean duh, couldn't bring my whole wardrobe, what did you expect? (one week business trip, brought three pairs of trousers... which was already going overboard in my opinion)

[@randysem]

Did you get exact copies of the suits you already owned?

[@dutchman7623]

@@randysem I once bought a shirt I really liked, simple green white narrow stripes, which came out of the laundry in perfect condition. So I bought three more of the same. I could wear them often, even if two were in the laundry basket, there were another two in the closet. One day my boss told me to change my shirt more often... Embarrassed I asked him whether I smelled bad, whether my shirt was dirty, not ironed, or what else? Just change it more often, he replied. So I took it off in the middle of the office and handed it over to him. Inspect it, smell it, check it, it's perfectly clean. He didn't accept it and I threw it on the desk of his secretary and her aid. They stared at it and didn't know what to do. I told my boss he was wearing a white shirt from monday to thursday (friday, half day with no appointments, he wore more relaxed cloths), and it would never cross my mind to suggest it would be the same shirt every day, month in month out, year after year, one single shirt, without washing? I have four of them, all the same, because they wear nice, keep their color, do not wrinkle too much, they are perfect shirts! I grabbed my shirt and put it back on, he retreated in his cubicle and closed the door.

[@Be-Es---___]

My boss has nothing to do about what clothes I put on at the office (As long as it's decent and clean). (.)

[@eddys.3524]

What a shocker... The sun breaking through and Ava not storming outside to enjoy... LOL. Thanks for the video!

[@edwinschaap5532]

Hoi Eva, ook je batterijtjes, medicijnen en andere chemische resten (zoals verf) kan je apart inleveren.

[@dimitridoes7936]

Despite whatever the responses are - the Dutch are easily persuaded to comment / criticise - great to see your video on 1) your efforts and 2) showing how easy-going recycling can be in NL. Love your down-to-earth observations (and "spreading the word")!

[@Tacko14]

Just in by seconds, but that shop window struck me. ‘Buy books buy local’. I have pledged to myself to never, ever go amazon. The ones we already had are bad enough, but Bezos takes the serious biscuit. Whenever I get the chance I circumvent corporate business. But those chances evaporate. Guitar strings? Simple thing, right? My very local musicshop has just shut down. Again. There’s none left now, there used to be five. This one used to be big enough to give starting bands a breakthrough and be praised by bands that made it big. They were where people went to write books about MIDI, once upon a time. Yeah, they were a willing library with the personnel to match. And now they’re… gone. Just, gone. It’s depressing for me, desastrous for them. They were a treasure trove of passionate advice, I only had to ask. Rockpalace. You will be remembered.

[@thomasr730]

I have my summer coat for about 17 years, I only got the zipper replaced once and for the rest it still loks perfect. I feel it's ridiculous to have a coat this long... but I'm not getting it replaced while it's still perfectly fine!

[@MrRepsie]

😂😂😂

[@gert-janvanderlee5307]

17 years isn't that long for a coat. I have a wintercoat that I had for much longer than that and it's still hanging in a closet because it's too good to throw away.

[@adouglasmhor]

I was sometimes wearing my grandad's British Warm from WW2 until the year before last (it was too warm for all but the harshest weather) . Dry cleaned every other year. Moths got to it in storage unfortunately.

[@MrAronymous]

None of it ends up in the landfill as we don't have landfills anymore. It's incinerated and used to heat homes or generate electricity

[@Emphyrio7]

Most of the fly ash from garbage incineration isn't reusable and is indeed dumped in specialised sites.

[@RealConstructor]

@@Emphyrio7Not true, 85% of the ash, leftover after incineration of waste, is reused in road construction.

[@captainchaos3667]

I mean I live right next to an active landfill (Vathorst).

[@tinusbrokke4163]

Depends where you live dude….

[@gert-janvanderlee5307]

Or it is exported to 3rd world poor countries and dumped in nature over there.

[@damouze]

"I complain about delays and I complain about cancellations..." It's a fact. You've officially become Dutch ;-). Loved your video, as always.

[@loboclaud]

We do the same in Portugal!

[@ronaldderooij1774]

Imagine that the Netherlands is not even meeting its EU goals on recycling.....

[@lilly6766]

Allways a pleasure to watch!

[@gordonwallin2368]

Recycling is pretty common, here too. More videos, I grew up working on Dutch farms and miss the culture. Love your videos. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.

[@margreetanceaux3906]

Said it to Americans before: if you live here, without a car, find yourself a ride to the milieu-park or milieu-street for a little outing ;-) Now and then even I am still amazed… how ‘flat glass’ (window-like stuff) is separated from jars and bottles. How your glass ovenware is a categorie on its own, because for recycling it needs a much higher melting temperature than other glass. Etcetera.

[@juliannevork6200]

and most milieustraten will let people in bikes skip lines (if there even is one) to the front cause they can't bring as much anyways.. :)

[@EricvanDorp007]

Follow you since the start, and you are now official, a Dutch woman born somewhere else across the ocean who found this tinny place called the Netherlands.

[@fionaalgera3391]

You forget a few categories: clothing, chemical waste, drugs (medicines). And the waste you have to drive to a ‘brengstation’ like: construction waste (which also has categories), big plastic items waste, electronic waste…. I’m probably forgetting a few. If you take your waste to the ‘brengstation’ you have to find out the different categories there by yourself (sometimes you’re lucky and you find an employee who can help you).

[@UltimateSeduction]

... Stiekem zijn wij best wel "goedkoop" hoor, dat mag je best rustig zeggen 😂😘

[@lbergen001]

Zeker...goed koop !

[@mavadelo]

If you have a garden, compost is awesome. Provided you have space left besides those bins to actually grow something. But even a small garden can yield you your own herbs. And with the compost you don't need to buy special soil... money savers right there. Statiegeld: in the end you have paid for the bottle/can/cup and you can get that money back so why not return. With bottles and now cans, I simply save the bottles for when I am low on money. And I am certainly not the only one. I see often enough people hauling 3 or 4 big shopper bags full of bottles to the store cashing in 15 or 20 euros for a day of "free" shopping. Clothing: I am like Lambik fro "Suske and Wiske", my closet is a few pair of the same jeans, a few pair of similar shirts and a few sweaters. I basically always look the same... who cares. as long as youdon't go around naked or stinking.

[@IAMCHIDERA]

Have you ever done a tour of Utrecht? Love your videos on the Netherlands 🇳🇱 😊so if you ever can make a video it would be great to see what you see!

[@catharinaforbes-boeren82]

Good job !

[@MusicJunky3]

And as a addition to the 'Recycle area'' for your glass ,paper etc. there is the second hand clothes and shoes bank, usually run by the Salvation Army

[@xeniajola]

And clothing and shoes you can bring that also to point... some times in shops and then you get a reciept for discount there

[@captainchaos3667]

The recycling thing is a reflection of how much cheaper labour is in the US. It still gets separated into the same streams, but in the US you can just pay some cheap labourers to do that, while in the Netherlands that would not be cost effective and you need people to do it themselves.

[@michiel1362]

It is also done in the netherlands, polish people are hired mostly because they will do this smelly work.

[@sefbauwens5764]

Happy Thanksgiving!

[@dutchyjhome]

Hey Ava, je bent goed bezig! You're becoming such an advocate of Dutch society, no really! Probably since you gave Dutch society a chance for yourself and slowly but surely you're starting to understand why the things are done in the Netherlands the way they are done and how thy are done. Dutch society is sinking in...in Ava ;-) You're getting in deeper and deeper until er geen weg meer terug is ;-)

[@DewiLiberty]

On the first thing, we don't dump our 'restafval' in the landfill. Most of it is burned, often with electricity and heat in return.

[@janvisser2223]

Jij bent zo leuk!!👍👍

[@TheEvertw]

We had the heating at 18°C as well, but noticed that the house was getting very humid, so now we are at a balmy 19°C. I expect to get back to 18°C when it gets colders, we had an extremely wet autumn and to prevent mold etc the house needs to be a bit wamer than the outside.

[@basvanderwerff2725]

if it get humid you need more ventilation moiture does not magically disapear when you set your heating higher

[@TheEvertw]

​@@basvanderwerff2725 The relative humidity drops very quickly as temperature of the air rises. Air that is even 1° warmer can hold much more water.

[@juliannevork6200]

I agree ventilation would be a better solution for humidity.. I keep a humidity meter inside, opening the windows or any type of ventilation will quickly lower it by a lot, meanwhile cooking etcetera will make it go up. ventilation is probably also the cheaper option. And good ventilation is healthy for you, of course..

[@TheEvertw]

@@juliannevork6200 Opening windows does not work if outside is just as humid as inside. We have had the wettest autumn on record. In that situation there also needs to be a temperature differential to transport humidity out of the home.

[@Universeofka]

Did you know that if you bring your reusable cup to starbucks they give you a discount? You're saving quite a bit especially now that you otherwise have to pay 'the plastic tax'

[@metalvideos1961]

Why would you go to Starbucks. Literally disgusting in every sense of the word

[@1aapmens]

My partner bought a (men's) suit for our daughter for €11,50 today at the Kringloop. She needs something formal and this is her style. Corneliani. At least €1300 new. Yes, I'm very Dutch. I like.

[@Nynke_K]

😮

[@randysem]

West-Philadelphia you say? Born and raised?

[@astraeetje5048]

If you know the people around you, you could pick up on their moods by watching the clothes they wear that day. We tend to have comfy for the days we are not our best self. If we feel good, we might wear something more sassy 💁🏼‍♀️ #ifyounoticeyouknow 😂

[@daphneschuring5810]

I only turn the heat at night because of turn it up on the morning it will be warm after I left to go to work.

[@user-xi6nk4xs4s]

Ever heard of a clock thermostat?

[@Monkstameth]

Owning HQ clothing and wearing them to threads is not a trend here, I think it's culture. At least I was raised that way. Greetings from Amsterdam!

[@astrid9017]

The separating of garbage btw, is not nationwide. Municipalities decide whether they want it or not. We're separating since (I think) 2021 where I live and we have to pay 8 euro for the 'restafval' to be picked up. Absolute mental and as a result people are even discarding their garbage bags on the side of the roads. We have to hang up the plastic bags onto street poles for pickup. Rats, mice, cats, birds they destroy the bags and scatter the garbage around. Nobody wants to pick it up, because 'that's not mine' or 'let the city clean it, they knew this would happen and still wanted it'. And I agree. I live rural (in de polder) so I don't even see all the ripped open bags the people in neighborhoods see, but I can understand the frustration.

[@johnkochen7264]

You know that copper wire was invented by two Dutch guys who were fighting over a penny.

[@wisecat.]

I barely buy new stuff. Usually I spend no more than or around 100-200 euro's a year on clothes. I choose repairing above replacing stuff. Most of my furniture is 2nd hand and has been purchased over 10-15 years ago. My energy bill is also very low. Clearly I'm a saver, not a spender.

[@doomie21]

En hoe is het met je beheersing van de Nederlandse taal?

[@VulcanOnWheels]

7:43 I'm not complaining. If you don't mind me asking you about the line on your skin. Was it left by a pendant?

[@disklamer]

so how much airtravel

[@willemh3319]

don't care you wear as long it is clean and good looking matching

[@nikkikamstra1671]

You should start batteries and electronics as well.

[@jokemmerling4875]

Coffee and Starbucks in one sentence, you must be kidding.

[@eronsentertainmentstore6487]

So Ava, how is your Dutch comming along ? Biking, sounds like a litteral translation, or is cycling not normal to use in the US ?

[@carmenl163]

I think biking is what we do and cycling is what they do in the tour de France (wielrennen).

[@AlexK-yr2th]

Nice video Ava. Only thing, you dont go carring, booting, plane'ing, motorbiking, hence you also dont go biking but cycling.... At the end you got it right. Dutch people invest in quality and that contradicts with your earlier remark that Dutch are cheap. We just don't overspend on something useless that ends up as storage or in a display cabinet.

[@carmenl163]

There is nothing wrong with cycling. It's the word that is used for wielrennen, the cycling sport. And it's kinda weird to correct a native speaker.

[@AlexK-yr2th]

@@carmenl163 Funny... It is called English, not American. And in England it is cycling. What native speaker?

[@SuperDutchjohn]

Actually vegetables are more EXPENSIVE here during the season, for instance, when it is winter, the prices for vegetables that are popular during the winter time are much higher than in spring or summer........and vice versa ofcourse..........thumbs up.

[@henkvandervossen6616]

Be seasonal is meant the season they are produced, not necessarily the season people want to eat them.😅😅

[@Divine_Evil]

I live in a house in Sweden... I sort in 8 + 3 types my trash + the bottle and cans are also separate. Every 2 weeks is picked: - Plastic packaging. - Paper packaging. - Composting wase. - Colored Glass. Every 4 weeks are collected: - Newspapers and magazines. - Metals. - Transparent glass. - Combustables. These are the main 8 types, which is like 99% of my trash. As you can see almost everything gets recycled, composted or burned for energy. The 3 extra types are batteries, small electronics and light bumps... Those I have addon containers which I attach whenever full to the 2 main garbage bins. Each bin is divided into 4, as explained above. Anything bulky or hazardous, you bring to the waste station, that is in almost every village. Things like old furniture, appliances, garden waste, building demolition waste, motor oil, paint etc... I even took rocks and boulders when I was doing some landscaping in my garden. Oh and bottles and cans you get a deposit back at the store from the Pant machines... Ones you get so used to separating so much it is weird when going to the States... I had to constantly think about something that is combustible, should I put it in the trash or recyclable...

[@ErikNjegovanRubini-wt2ho]

In Germany the same

[@chesleecallum6392]

I was wondering as a dutchy, what you said about the vegetables, are the high prizes in the US directly related to obesity? Because I have the (maybe im wrong) idea a lot of American are overweight. Especially instead of here in holland. I think veggies should be free though 😊

[@martijnspruit]

While it is certainly true that healthy food like vegetables are more expensive in the USA (especially in the city), the obesity epidemic actually has a lot to do with the highly processed food and additives like salt and sugar in it.

[@gert-janvanderlee5307]

@@martijnspruit Mostly sugar. Too much salt isn't healthy either but for different reasons. Stop eating and drinking sugar and you're gonna lose weight really fast.

[@inge6280]

The new single use plastic charge is a load of crap. The businesses charging it get to keep that money, so just extra profit for Starbucks. Nothing for the environment is done with that money. Now at starbucks you can bring your own cup, they’re the exception though, certainly not possible with food that you get delivered. You just pay a higher price for the same thing. Seems to me it’s not going to motivate businesses to get rid of their single use plastics

[@TimWil]

Hi, Ava, I hope you might do a video on your reaction to the General Election.

[@JacobBax]

Why?

[@randysem]

If I were her I would skip it. But we'll.

[@BrazenNL]

7:13 🤣

[@minoreducation2927]

suddenly: THE SUN🤣!

[@Tacko14]

That’s actually turning into a bit of a bother. I do split my trash into several bins for recycling, but… my kitchen does get crowded by all the bins. Paper/carton, plastics which is the big one, tin cans and plastic bottles for restitution, and whatever’s left. I haven’t got much GFT, not having a garden on the 2nd floor. And glass, I forgot that one. But my kitchen is small as anything. And the bins in the neighbourhood are often full when I visit. I’ve heard about plans to make the contracted garbage collector do all the dividing so we can go back to letting it be, and I only wish. It’s getting crowded here… Smelly, too

[@iamTheSnark]

I have a stack. A crate for glass, a box for paper and cardboard on top of it. Plastic is no longer separated in Utrecht. Compostable stuff goes on the balcony, in a brown plastic box with a fruit fly secure lid. And there's a big reusable shopping bag (with a sturdy base of laminate at the bottom) for plastic bottles and aluminium cans, so I can take them to the shop and get my deposit back.

[@SIG442]

Economical is the word you were looking for. We don't like to waste money if we don't need to for bills. It's about being smart with your money. Saying this is about being cheap is more of a insult. Clothes you use until they can't be repaired anymore, at least if you are outside the big cities. It's there for no problem to have a hole in your pants for example, just fix it so it can last a bit longer while you find a replacement. And yes, Dutch people prefer to go to a actual store above a internet store so they can actually see and touch the product before buying it. Perhaps trying it on or tasting it depending on what it is. I personally have just 2 pants and a couple of shirts, that's it. I don't bother with a huge pile of either as it doesn't make much sense.

[@sim-one]

Take your own new cup to Starbucks and you get a discount 😜

[@arneclements6911]

And what about recycling Electronics like phones and lightbulbs?

[@patypami16]

There are places called "afvalscheidingsstation" where you can bring bulky waste and also electronic ans electric devices

[@iamTheSnark]

Yup. Just went to the recycling station (to the tip, the British would say) with those.

[@DamaxThomas]

The tax on plastic bottle is a nightmare for tourists like I was last month. Always having a trash bag with me in addition to my backpack was not great specially that the bottles must stay in pristine shape. Twice I waited 20 minutes for someone in front to scan all the bottles or understand not all bottles have the tax (eg: bottles from Belgium). Anyway, the Netherlands is still great to travel to.

[@dutchgamer842]

It's not tax at all. If it was tax you wouldn't get the 15 ct per bottle back a store, if you are on vacation. You could still just trash them. It's not forbidden to throw them in public trashcans

[@DamaxThomas]

@@dutchgamer842 Indeed, no a tax, a deposit. The comment remain in substance the same.

[@carmenl163]

Wow, all that trouble for a 15c refund? You've adapted to the Dutch cheapness very well.

[@dutchgamer842]

@@carmenl163 A lot of Dutch don't even bring back the cans and few return garbage bags full of them

[@juliannevork6200]

nobody's stopping you from throwing them away anyways.. sometimes when the line is too long and i only have 1/2 i just give my bottles to someone else in line. Also don't know why you wouldn't just bring your own bottle if you're travelling, there's plenty of free tap water stations around most cities, or just fill it wherever you are staying...

[@tarotray]

Wrong about plastic, where I live (Amsterdam). We are told, now, to put plastic in the restafval (general trash), as the machines do a better job of recycling it correctly, than humans, nowadays.

[@ivo215]

Most of your "landfill" trash actually doesn't go into a landfill. It goes into a blastfurnace and is recycled into electricity. Is that better for the environment? I don't actually know. It probably is.

[@henkrijkse4268]

And not only electricity, but also heat for the district heating system. That happens in Rotterdam. Utrecht has also a district heating system. In the USA, New York has a heating system. You can see the steam in the streets. Detroit and St. Paul have heating systems as well.

[@19louis47]

I read several years ago an article somewhere: In the USA lives 1/10 of the world population. But they use 1/2 of the worlds energy. I don´t know if this is true!

[@jbird4478]

No. Americans do use far more energy than any other people, but those numbers (both of them) are way off.

[@metalvideos1961]

They are the second biggest polluters in the world. So yes it's most likely true

[@carmenl163]

​@@jbird4478Actually, Americans do not use far more energy than others. Index Mundi has a chart per person per country and Iceland uses much more than others, also about 5 times as much as Americans.

[@jbird4478]

@@carmenl163 That refers to electricity, not energy in general. Iceland get most of its electricity from geothermal sources, so they use electricity for a lot, including for the heating of homes. Regardless, Americans indeed do not use far more than any other people. It depends a lot on exactly what and how it is measured, but there are a number of countries, in particular Gulf states, that us comparable or even more. But again, it depends a lot on what is measured exactly. Most sources only measure direct consumption, which includes things like electricity, heating, and transport, but does not for example include the cost of consumer goods. That causes for example the energy used to produce all that stuff that we buy in the west, but is produced in China, to be added to China's numbers, which is not really an accurate representation. It is a complex issue, and I should not have jumped to such a gross generalization.

[@nfboogaard]

One of us... One of us... One of us 😂

[@hondaryder3779]

Cheap and proud of it! My thermostaat is on 15⁰, 14⁰ at night, i just bought an electric blanket and i wear thermal long underwear. Fashion😆Americunts are so judgemental🤭 Not you ofcourse, you're Dutch now😘

[@johnnydoe3603]

On Average US Citizens throw away 37 Kg of Perfectly Normal Clothes every Year. Good to See European Countries doing their Best to Protect Environment. 😊👍🏽

[@juliannevork6200]

clothing is never really thrown either.. as a kid my mom would send the clothes we'd outgrown around to her friends with kids a little younger to pick through, they did the same.. and anything left over or too worn to wear, there's a special underground recycling bin for next to the glass/paper/waste bins, to throw in clothing, shoes, and any other similar items.

[@010Jordi]

I'm Dutch lived here all my 28 years and have never recycled anything. All my trash goes in a big gray garbage bag and gets thrown in an underground container

[@BubbleMix-96]

Pretty selfish

[@Aagaard1979]

Just five? I live in an apartment in Denmark and just to make sure i checked the guidelines... I have 11 ways to sort my waste....

[@Aagaard1979]

metals, paper(newspapers, printed commercials etc.), plastics, food wrappings, cardboard, food waste (leftover food), glass, dangerous waste, textiles, big waste (furniture etc) and the last "leftovers" which I guess is what most people consider anything that doesn't fit any other category (as in normal old school trash bin) ... but I guess it should be 12 because we also disposal specific for batteries and lightbulbs with heavy metals... and "furtniture waste can still be split into .... never mind ... 11 bins in your home for sorting your waste (not trash... people can be trash too.... Im not allowed to dump trash people in the biowaste bin,,,, sad...

[@igeekling]

In my municipality over in Sweden... Well let's count. Organic waste - includes things like paper towels that can be composted but not eggshells because they gum up the biodigesters. Goes to biogas production that run the local busses. Paper and cardboard packaging Newspaper and printed paper Plastic (soft and hard separated in home for space, but goes in the same bin) Coloured glas Clear glas Metal Small electrical appliances Light sources Batteries And the actual trashbag that goes to the incinerator for energy production. So that's 11 different compartments in my curbside bins that are collected by the garbage truck. The rest, like pharmaceuticals, used cooking fats, garden waste, and larger items like old furniture etc you have to bring to the recycling centre yourself and sort there. And believe you me, if you were to happen to toss a piece of pressure treated lumber into the wood container, or a mostly plastic chair into the mostly metal old furniture... There will be an angry old man shouting at you.

[@rvdnagel1963]

5:29

[@TheMntnG]

really sorry about what happened politically. NZ just had the same. the world is going under. fuckem.

[@Conservative-Leftie]

Don't always believe what you read...Wilders is Right-wing alright but f.e. he called Trump an idiot ('mafklapper')... And social economically he is quite leftish...there are a lot of problems caused by mostly young intolerant religious idiots which severely hurts the gay community in the streets...Wilders' big hero is Pim Fortuyn a gay politician who was assassinated in 2002 for speaking out about the intolerance (mostly from islamic radicals) towards gay people and women... So Eva is gonna be fine...

[@metalvideos1961]

I don't seperate my garbage. Only glass and plastic bottles. Composts we pretty much don't do this in the Netherlands.

[@RealConstructor]

They’re composting the GFT waste or they ferment it to biogas. I started to compost myself since I bought a house with a garden, a year ago. But I stopped as soon as I saw a rat rummaging through the waste in the composter. Everything is going straight into the GFT waste roller bin.

[@margreetanceaux3906]

Oh yes we do: Rotterdam collects gft (produce and garden waste) every other week. Separate kliko ;-)

[@Guytaryn]

Here in the Hague City, we had a project, called, the Conscious Kitchen, we picked up waste veggies at the market, providing a meal for students🍆🥦🥬🥒🫑🌶🌽🥕🥔🥑🫒

[@mikepictor]

I can't sort myself to get my statiegeld refund. I recycle it, but the recycle bin out my front door is a whole lot closer than carrying a bag full of bottles all way to AH for a few cents.

[@gabrielabagala]

Put it outside the bin and someone in not will take it and get some cents for them. In my neighborhood there is a boy that ask every week for "empty bottles". He is 10 y.o. and medium class, but he has his business.

[@basvanderwerff2725]

but you need to go to that store anyway to shop again.....

[@JulesStoop]

*Frugal!😂

[@hiptopmaxsuper]

18C????? no thank you LOL I need 22-23C I need a temperature where I can comfortably sit just in a t-shirt and sweatpants, I hate wearing sweaters inside my home.

[@basvanderwerff2725]

at 22-23 even wearing nothing whould be to hot for me

[@cooika6921]

100x15 cents is still 15 euro Lol

[@wirovanas3317]

Wat geen koffie/thee op je werk of is het niet te zuipen.

[@Panacea9]

I forget if she was Canada. She was China' at the time. NL was sadly dominated by their ways and media.

[@chipdale490]

??

[@Abor34]

free from school vrij van school 😂

[@vogel2280]

Lets face it. sorting out recycling...it makes no sense. You can put cans into PMD as long as they are tin cans, because those can, but aluminium cans can't. Plastic bags are fine, unless they are shiny on the inside. And nowadays I'm supposed to separate the plastic label from the plastic bottle and then put them together in the same bin....The error margin is small and most of it needs to be resorted. In fact is turns out it is cheaper, easier and more precise if you put it all into one bin and let the waste-company sort it out, but that hurts the environmental AWARENESS strategy of your municipality. (so just the awareness, not the environment itself)

[@robvanlent1008]

Well first of all, persons that had problems with energy bills. Were the person that choice the cheapest option. Variable! People that are cheap. Well people. I hope you learn a lesson. I never had the problem because I paid. More for a multiple year contract. Same with the phone. Again I paid the full price. Went to Andorra. Everyone was panicking. No service! Well yeah. It's inside Europe but not part of the union so no service unless you have global services. Like me. Can I use your phone no you can't. Ha ha 🤣🤣🤣.

[@BloodsplatterBE]

Do the Dutch still use landfills? I thought most European countries burned non-recycleable trash

[@petersteinmeijer519]

We're not cheap; shame on you. We are environmentally conscious.

[@RogierYou]

The Dutch invented to copper wire..... 2 Dutchmen pulling on a cent ;-)

[@AJansenNL]

😂@@RogierYou

[@GiblixStudio]

agreed. i'm rather being called "cheap" compared to being a wasteful parasite.

[@Nerd3927]

No the Dutch are Cheap. Period.

[@A.Kanters]

stop calling us cheap, it aint funny. Even tho its true.

[@303qwertyuiop303]

No just continue calling us cheap, I find it funny :-)

[@lilly6766]

Allways a pleasure to watch!