Last summer we had an idea while sitting outside in the sun with a beer in our hands – to build a recycling add-on attached to the public trashcans where we could put our bottles after drinking our beer? I have to explain that in Germany you pay a deposit for each bottle, so there are a lot of people searching for bottles to get some pennies, but there are also a lot of people just leaving the beer-bottles out in the streets, just where they drunk it. These mostly end up smashed – not cool, even less if you are biking in Berlin (like 99% of the people).

So the idea would be that you just put your bottle in this box, so people know where to search for them to collect them and on the other hand you avoid broken glass in the streets.

So we presented the idea on the website of Tchibo-Ideas. It is a site where everybody can post ideas which make the every day life easier and we won the 3rd prize in may. Also we were part of the exhibition of ideas in Hamburg – here a picture.

Cheers!

Thanks to Dani for the foto and to the BE BERLIN-Team for their support!