Hamburg banishes coffee capsules and bottled water
In Hamburg, the large port city in northern Germany, coffee capsules will no longer be served in government offices. You will no longer drink either water or beer in disposable plastic packaging, even returnable. And cleaning will only be done with chlorine-free detergents. These are some of the new regulations that came into force at the end of January in the city-region, whose administration has set itself the goal of becoming "a model in Germany" in terms of ecological management of supplies and public procurement. . (...)
Yes in Germany, a lot of plastic bottles have been returned for years ...
Regarding ecological cleaning, it seems to me that I heard a few years ago that some Belgian cities had passed there too!