Haha, I have been hating the change. Where I live we have working bottle recycling process. 

When you buy a can or a bottle there is recycling price priced in the products. When you go to your local store to buy groceries, there are recycling machines you can return your bottles and cans. It will pay you money for it.  ( 10 - 20snt) per bottle.

We dont have any problems with bottles or bottle caps laying around cities. 

Eu wants to change things around bottle recycling to different model. Basically making things worse. 

 yeah, the german and dutch glass/metal recycling systems are awesome, this shit is retarded