Germans are known for their sense of order. So what do you think of this (btw. it is not for the first time we have to fight against garbage from Germany or Austria):


Cheb - According to a report, more and more Germans are throwing their garbage in in the wild in the Czech Republic. In Cheb (Eger) alone, there are four illegal stockpiles in forests close to the border as reported by the Czech television CT on Wednesday. That the garbage is from Germany, can be seen on the labels.

"Germans have to pay by themselves at home based on the quantity of the produced waste," says the report. "Bringing everything across the border to the Czech Republic seems to be the easiest way for some to save money." In the Czech Republic, people pay flat-rate waste charges. The city of Cheb alone located about 50 kilometers north of Weiden (Upper Palatinate), have to remove about five tons of waste from illegal garbage dumps every year.

However, the problem of illegal stockpiles is not limited to the border area. Also some Czechs, for example, leave their carracks in the forest. Volunteers of the campaign "We make the Czech Republic clean" collected more than 2000 times more of garbage in the nature this year. With a specially developed smartphone app, anyone can report. The data are published on a map on the Internet - and so others are encouraged to help.

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/news/wiss...0705-99-117742