Admittedly, it is incredibly clean in my city, including several very good recycling companies (they got really good after they were privatized and not run by the government anymore). Most houses have bio-degradable, paper, plastic/tech and general waste bins. Extra glass containers are in every other street. Clothes containers for the poor as well. Each street has multiple waste bins with extra cigarettes departments and many different, smart/funny slogans, to make people use them. Dog poop goes in there as well in extra little baggies.

This is all good stuff and I am happy to have that. I guess I was just a bit bitter earlier this morning. Berlin is awesome. Except for the government in Germany. That is just as bad as in the USA - or nearly everywhere else in the world.