Green and yellow
Different regions in France have used their own methods of dealing with the issue of recycling for a few years now (some better than others), but Paris is finally making a really big effort to encourage people to sort their rubbish.
What makes this particularly exciting is the arrival of the yellow bins. These bins have been available in aparment buildings for a while now, and you could see them in a few different métro stations last year, but now you can see them in lots of parks and other public spaces around Paris, which means you now have two bins to choose from when you're throwing stuffs away in public! Green is for normal rubbish, yellow is for lecycuraburs (recyclables).
France is coming pretty late to the environmental awareness party that the rest of the world seems to have been in on for years now - but it's better late than never, I guess. The environmentally-conscious greenie in me (bred in a lot of Australians, I think) is absurdly excited about this. Hence this very geeky post. But now when I sit in my favourite park at lunch time, I can throw away my rubbish without feeling guilty.
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OOooooh that's interesting, Derron!
All I can comment is from my perspective... In Australia things are pretty advanced in terms of recycling. And in France they recognise that they're REALLY far behind a lot of other countries in this respect, especially the scandinavian ones. But playing catch-up is good!
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I wonder if Kylie would have said, "France is coming pretty late to the environmental awareness party that the rest of the world seems to have been in on for years now - but it's better late than never, I guess." as France is way ahead of the US!