Between paper waste, compost and trash you might think Munich homes had enough waste bins already. Here's why adding a yellow bin for plastic and metal should actually make recycling easier.
One company near Dresden has created an innovative approach to turn plastic waste into fuel - which it hopes to roll out throughout Germany and beyond.
Even eco-friendly Germany is guilty of a throwaway culture. Each year, it consumes more than 220 kilos of packaging per capita – more than any other country in the European Union.
One of the brilliant things about living abroad is that you learn skills and habits that aren't as common in your home country. Germany certainly has a few to offer.
In a warehouse in the western Germany city of Cologne, bottles of deodorant and shower gel plastered with the face of football manager Joachim Löw are stacked all the way up to the ceiling.
We find ourselves in the year 2017 and all Bavaria is occupied by the Prussians... all of Bavaria? No, one indomitable village still resists, refusing to obey national recycling laws.
The bill in Bremen made a surprise find on Sunday - a pair of legs sticking out of a recycling bin. The body attached to them gave the same implausible explanation for his bizarre actions as he had done four months earlier.
When it comes to what they wear, Germans have a throwaway culture. A new survey by Greenpeace shows that the words Schuster (cobbler) and Schneider (tailor) have become little more than surnames in modern society.
After throwing away €12,000 this week, a landlord in North Rhine-Westfalia thought he'd made one of the most expensive blunders of his life. But the money made it home safely, police said on Friday – and all thanks to an honest pensioner.
An invention being trialed in the Bavarian town of Bamberg is making life easier for the poorest citizens. The contraption on public bins holds used bottles ready for collectors in need of the recycling deposit.
It is more famous for its ancient beer halls, world-class football stadium and medieval churches, but glass recycling bins have been named one of Munich’s highest-rated attractions by reviewers on Google.
Two culinary-minded Berlin women have given "leftovers for dinner" a fresh twist by organizing communal suppers conjured up from unsold food foraged from markets. And following considerable success, they want to go global.
A woman who cleared up a load of empty bottles from near the entrance to a children’s playground has been fined nearly €250 by German authorities for illegal rubbish disposal.
A father and son team which invented a low-emission combustion technology and the founder of a environmentally friendly office supplies firm are sharing Europe’s most lucrative prize for environmental innovation.
German households should recycle even more of their rubbish following the passage of a new law by the Bundestag on Friday, aiming to reduce the country’s consumption of raw materials.
An association representing German cities wants to expand the deposit scheme for bottles and other disposable consumer items in an effort to reduce litter across the country.
Confused by Germany's recycling system? It just got even more complicated with an orange bin. But as <b>Alexander Bakst</b> discovers, Germans are taking the new element in their stride.
Surrounded by smoking vats in his tumble-down factory in former communist East Germany, Wolfram Palitzsch sees a golden future in recycling "rare earths," the metals crucial to gadgets such as mobile phones and TVs.
A Mönchengladbach man was stuck with his feet in the air for hours after diving into a paper recycling container to retrieve his keys, police in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia reported on Monday.
