Berlin's bottle fishing!

How many times you've bought some drink in a plastic bottle and then just throw it away? Many times right? Well, an empty bottle is supposed to be trash. Although in Berlin not completely, a plastic or glass bottle is money.

In Berlin, every time you buy any bottleled drink you are paying a 25cents deposit, no matter the bottle's size. But you don't need to throw your money, because when return back the bottle to the store, they must give you back the same amount of deposit in cash.

Many tourists don't know this, so they throw the bottles in any trash can. But Berliners know it; they're widely prepare for Bottle Fishing, from poor people and even students. To find a place for bottle fishing is the difficult part... the airport? Tiergarten? touristic areas? Almost all of them are practically taken.

You don't need to fish, just open your eyes, not only because your money, but the help that this little action means for the whole planet.