The 109th Episode : Ecology country, Germany
[March, 1998 Hanover, Germany]
In the 2nd morning the bus stopped at the railway crossing on the way to the station. There spread the rural scene a slightly ups and downs. I just recognised only the alarm of the crossing was heard. No exhaust note of the bus.
The global warming has been a big problem globally and Germany took the action from early. They invoked the ‘idling stop’ already in the middle of 1990’s. They also took the lead in building the wind power generation and collecting the empty cans.
An empty can was put into a machine like a vending machine, then a coins came out. It looks like rotating the video of a vending machine backwards. Children did it to get pin money picking up the empty cans. In the past in Japan we could get money in exchange of the empty beer bottles at a liquor shop.
Anywhere in the world, people work for getting money.
