Greg Shenkman's Travel Blog

This morning as I, Greg Shenkman, drank my coffee looking at the sun slowly rise over the valley, when I realized that I forgot to take out the recycling, interestingly enough, that is what inspired this post. During my trips around the globe, I takes notes and make observations about the recycling habits of each country I visit.

Switzerland’s recycling efforts are noteworthy, with their bottle banks in almost every supermarket making it easier for everyone to recycle. Because of thier awesome recycling efforts, the Swiss are the world’s number one recyclers, recycling 52% of the country’s waste. Austria and Germany are second and third, respectively. Austria recycles 49.7% of the country’s waste and German 48%.

The United States only recycles 31% while being the world’s largest producer of waste.The world’s worst recycling countries are perhaps the India and Greece.

If each citizen of the world makes a personal commitment to recycling and conservation, it is the intelectual hope that towns, cites and countries will follow and we can leave some of the beauty on this earth for our children.