In Denmark waiters are paid a decent wage, so you only give a tip if the service has been extraordinary.

I hate this. If I'm going to buy something, tell me how much it actually costs instead of showing me your filthy lies.

I understand that the distances are big and that's why car is necessary. But in the big cities and areas close to them should have pedestrian walk aways and bike lanes.

i wouldnt really say japan respect the planet... sure, everything is so nice and tidy, but their enormous use of plastics and cans, non-existence of animal rights and general lack of eco thinking pretty shocked me.

Australia has 3weeks at Christmas, 1week at Easter and many paid public holidays, we even take 4 days off in November because of a horse race, frickin awesome:)

I'm all for supporting the homeless but wonder how it's cheaper to house them than not? (Even if it's more costly I support)

But then we wouldn't have all that wonderful slave labor from poor people and minorities to line the pockets of private prison corporations! Please note the sarcasm, I have to joke about it or I'll go mad.

there are, just no one really votes for them

In Australia healthcare is paid for by our taxes, we are taxed heavily for this. In Australia we are pretty much taxed heavily for everything, the only people who seem to get away with not paying a lot of taxes are politicians

Seems that with huge spanish speaking countries directly to our (US) south, spanish SHOULD be mandatory.

In Australia we have never had these fees

So, I pay my doctor $250 US per visit but then I have to talk to HIM about so and so drug???

OMG yes, some people come back after a baby with no job. Huge problem

A haircut in Australia is well over $45, I mean, a packet of cigarettes is $55, a gallon of petrol (we use litres in Australia but I'm making it easier:)is approximately $7.50, my daughter got her hair coloured at the hairdressers, $425, minimum wage in my industry (I work in the building trade) $29 approx per hour, my 19 year old daughter earns $29 an hour, my 25 year old son earns $60 per hour........whilst the amounts seem large, they have to be because everything is extremely expensive

In Canada they come regularly until you order then as soon as your food arrives they come back and ask how everything is before you have a chance to try it, then they can't be found when you want to pay and leave

Out subdivision recycles, but if you put the wrong things in your recycle box, they don't pick it up. I try to use a lot of recyclable items for my crafting. Just made 20mo grandson alphabet, number, color, and shape magnets using soda boxes. Cut in 2x2 squares, glued 10 pieces together, painted and sealed, attached magnets. He LOVES them!

Almost the entire state of Utah has this.

It's expensive, we in the U.S. made a great effort, then backed off. Some places may still be going at it. People do not do a good job of self-sorting, and then there are different types of plastic to be sorted, etc. The goods recycled good do not return much and so it all has to be covered by taxes and we know where that goes. I see some places around us that have three containers in front of their house, (they never leave the street, so beautiful) and the truck just dumps them all in the same truck and it goes in the landfill. Where my sister lives they used to have inspectors go around and make sure you sorted your garbage right, if you didn't, a ticket. Wow, what a job!

Same for Australia.

What that means to say is the republican states in the US need to step up their recycling game instead of believing the Earth is hear for our destruction and nothing we do has genuinely Earthly consequences.

🇸🇪 Outside my house (apartments) we also put food waste in a bin, collected in paper bags that the city/council or landlord arrange for. Then this is made into CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) for heating or fuel for vehicles. It’s very common in Europe.

In Verdun, France, I saw a fluorescent bulb recycling kiosk in a mall. Here in the U S the want us to recycle them but make it hard to do

In SA this doesn't matter becausse we have large numbers of homeless who pick through the waste, sort it and take it for recycling. It gives them some sort of income.

Amen to this!!!!!

Our county , outside DC Metro, stopped accepting a lot of recycling (glass etc) because it was no longer profitable ... and we pay a recycle pickup fee

The recycling could be so much better in this country.

I'm in Alabama and while we have recycling bins it doesn't matter since it all goes to the same place.

Recycling is not profitable so America won't do it

It depends on where you are. Here in Seattle, we recycle and compost, but if you go to a lot of the smaller towns in Washington state, they don't.

It‘s funny to see these bright colors. Ours are brown for compost, yellow for plastics, blue for paper and black for everything else, except glass. Glass has it‘s own containers. And of course every bottle and can that has Pfand goes back to a store to get the deposit back.

In Washington state we have lots of recycling and some places have compost. I cringe when I visit Montana because about the only thing people don't dump is scrap metal like old cars. The rest just goes in the big green garbage cans. And in Eastern Montana at least it is hard to recycle if you want too because the nearest drop point is a long way away (for many). My relatives have about a 90 minute drive to Billings which is the closest place to drop recycle. That would almost be like me driving my recycle to Seattle. Small wonder they don't bother.

To be fair, I was in Perth and they didn't recycle anything! Was moaning about it to my friend and he explained that they recycle everything in the waste processing factory. Which is better because people make mistakes or don't want to recycle

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look into it recycling is a scam and most recycling ends up in the trash shipped to fill up other countries. Recycling is actually harmful to other countries, but good on you.

I was on the board of a food charity for about six years. The amount of food that grocery stores throw away is staggering. In part due to US food safety laws. In bigger part due to US shoppers are super picky so if any fruit or veggie has a minor blem they will pass on it. The amount of waste is just painful to see.

I thought USA is such a great country but reading all these and something as simple as taxes makes me realise maybe it is not as great as they make it look like. You are missing on so many points and to me it seems like your citizens are money making machines for the 1% and close to getting bankrupt with one wrong step....

I loved a unisex setup I used in Japan. (I think, small chance it was Korea). Open area is for hand washing. Also a pee trough on back wall. The stalls had walls/doors floor to ceiling. Appropriate since they were squat toilets. But when a person goes into a stall it is basically like a private room. So nobody watching you potty - but saves space with shared sinks. And of course it totally sidesteps the "which bathroom is okay to use" problem because everyone uses the same one.

That's nice. Better to not take the car in the first place but sometimes plans change and you don't know it will be that way.

The US public transportation system is lacking because everything is rigged for fossil fuel companies to make moolah.

Lol this is certainly an American thing and i don't understand at all why you would want to wear your shoes indoors. It's dirty and so much more comfortable without shoes anyway

i really wish my country would ban smoking on the street. butts and horrible smell everywhere.

I have always hated the hypocrisy / inconsistency between when you are mature enough to drive - 16, sign legal contracts / die in the military - 18, and smoke or drink - 21. Drive a car to the recruiting center, join the military and kill other human beings / maybe get blown up. But don't you dare buy a cigarette.

Where I live you can get the best artisan bread ever in a supermarket. Plus we have mini bakeries in some grocery stores that make amazing bread and other baked goods and sell them for a couple euros at most

Bicyclist actually obeying traffic laws and using bike lines that they begged for and then don't use.

I have just come back but did not do any sight seeing as the client my husband is a carer for wanted to go to the red light district every day. The first day we split up I want off with my baby but due to having sarcoidosis and ME the walking we done left me bed bound the following day with my feet elevated. Anyway this is the only tourist thing that was done, my husband his client and a friend who tagged along took the baby out for a canal cruise. The guide was really informative apparently and had said that every year they remove about 15 thousand bikes from the rivers and canals in the city. I thought it was a great fact because I love facts. But I really hope these bikes are recycled and turned in to more bikes because they are everywhere you look. I want to go back soon as I missed so much I wanted to see

This seems like a waste of a day to me. I'd rather finish work 3 hours earlier in the day to have that time back with my family instead of napping and stretching out my work day

Japan seems to take pride in everything they do. Amazing country and people