[RutZap]

Clickbait title. Basically, just abusing the food stamp service.

The recycling fee/cashback incentive is a great way to ensure people are being responsible with their waste, or paying extra if they are not. Wasting water bought with food stamps to then get a couple of beers is not really worthy of anyone's attention.

[rusk]

Clickbait headline is unfortunate - but there is substance to the article. In particular the political backdrop to instituting recycling. Interesting to see that Merkel opposed it ...

[Arnt]

What she opposed was a change, not the whole thing.

Inaccurate summary: The percentage of <abbreviated> that was being recycled was dropping, and so reform was proposed, which at least some people expected to solve no part of the problem. She was against that reform. In her usual fashion she did not say much about why. I didn't notice any better proposal at the time.