Photo Gallery Bottle Blues
Many pensioners and unemployed people in Berlin are turning to an unusual means of supplementing their meager incomes: collecting discarded deposit bottles. They can return them to stores or supermarkets for a few cents per bottle. But as the activity becomes more popular, competition among collectors has intensified.
Many pensioners and unemployed people in Berlin are turning to an unusual means of supplementing their meager incomes: collecting discarded deposit bottles. They can return them to stores or supermarkets for a few cents per bottle.
Foto: Martin Schutt/ dpa
Here, a bottle collector rummages through trash on a street in Berlin's Kreuzberg district the day after the area's traditional May 1 demonstrations. The German government introduced deposits on cans and bottles to encourage recycling.
Foto: dapd
A bottle collector trudges through Berlin's streets on New Year's Day, 2011. As the activity becomes more popular, competition among collectors has intensified.
Foto: Schuh, Florian/ picture alliance / dpa
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