Something sort of excellent that we have discovered here in our new home is the way in which PET bottles are recycled. You take them to your local supermarket (as we did in Aarau) and put them in this hole in the wall, but the novelty of the recycling method here is that the holes in the wall for the different types of containers are surrounded by paintings of alieny type monster-people, and the recycling holes are the mouths of said people. Anyway, you put your plastic bottle in the monster mouth and then something in there shreds the bottle, making this entertaining mechanical munching sound as though the monster is eating the bottle.
It's not much, but it's what we've got.
UPDATE: I have just been to Migros again and as it turns out the bulk of what I wrote up there is a total lie. The alien-monster-people are actually kids and plastic bottles (not even morphed into hideous bottle children, just normal kids and bottles), and the kids faces aren't painted around the holes to make them into mouths. The shredder thing still exists though, and it's wacky.
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I don't get it. How could you have got it so wrong? Did they repaint the wall? Were you drunk? Is your eyesight finally starting to deteriorate like everyone else's?
It is kinda odd, isn't it? I think the problem is that the hole thing I was putting the bottles in the other day (which was normal PET bottles) was really close to the mouth of one of the kiddy people, and the kiddy people paintings really are kind of hideous and unattractive (ie. they look a bit monstrous. They are all funny angles and funny colours). I'm not sure how I failed to see all the bottles painted on the walls, though.
It's like advertising. You see it and then it wafts away again and if someone asks you what it was advertising you don't really know. It could have been laundry powder, it could have been verdant meadows.
Further update: They're not normal people, they are dog people. As in people who look like dogs, or possibly dogs who look like people. How can it possibly be that I am so unobservant? Or maybe someone is sneakily repainting them in between all my visits and next time they will be snake people or something. That's bound to be it.
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