Did67 wrote:It is not clear what year the data is from.
We compare people born in 1975 (who are therefore almost 40 years old today! AND these would be the "young") to those born in 1925 (who are 90 years old) ???
Or is it in 2000? AND since, especially in Germany, the gaps have widened phenomenally, following the Hartz laws4 - read: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9formes_Hartz
[Today, if you go to Berlin, you will be surprised to see people putting empty bottles on the curb. Explanation: Germany has opted for cleaning glass bottles (rather than breaking them to rectify the glass - which is silica which is not expensive and especially energy!), Therefore with a deposit; people "in a hurry" therefore put down the returnable bottle and a whole informal sector has developed of "bottle collectors" who are paid with the deposit ... !!!
http://www.biere-berlin-et-rocknroll.co ... onsignees/
it's German efficiency! a whole and usable bottle has more value than broken glass in a recycling container ... so will recuperate the bottle ... it's like the old EDF electromechanical counter, conscientiously destroyed in France, and in Germany checked and sold on amazon to serve as a measuring device for who needs it!
this is real ecology! when something can still be used it must be sold not destroyed!
the problem in france is that recovering to sell is frowned upon ... selling is almost more serious than stealing ...