{"id":60246,"date":"2024-10-02T21:57:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T19:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=60246"},"modified":"2024-10-03T21:38:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T19:38:03","slug":"the-deposit-ring-an-ambassador-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-deposit-ring-an-ambassador-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deposit Ring\u2014an Ambassador for Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"The Pfandring [deposit ring], developed in 2012 by Paul Ketz, wraps around public rubbish bins to offer an easily accessible place to leave empties. With it, an otherwise discarded bottle becomes a gift for those who really need it, and an everyday problem is solved by a simple addition. The deposit ring is the wedding ring for ecology and social responsibility.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI saw the sign in the pedestrian area of Aschaffenburg, Germany, and stopped to take a photo with my cell phone. Someone had screwed it to a lamppost. It said that people could place deposit bottles in the container below. It wasn\u2019t until I did some research later that I found out that these deposit rings can now be found in many cities. The invitation is not about cleanliness, like the other funny sayings on garbage cans:<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pfandring [deposit ring], developed in 2012 by Paul Ketz, wraps around public rubbish bins to offer an easily accessible place to leave empties. With it, an otherwise discarded bottle becomes a gift for those who really need it, and an everyday problem is solved by a simple addition. The deposit ring is the wedding ring for ecology and social responsibility. I saw the sign in the pedestrian area of Aschaffenburg, Germany, and stopped to take a photo with my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9159,"featured_media":59222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8823,8845],"tags":[11535,11559,8824],"class_list":["post-60246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reflection","category-social","tag-ausgabe-29-30-2024-en","tag-english-issue-40-2024","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}