Product from NZ, random product, and recycling products

I was super excited to notice a product from New Zealand in a shop, even though I've never seen these actually in New Zealand. Its amazing how patriotic one feels when absent from homeland!

Speaking of product, I'd heard the Danes were big on 'Svinekod', and sure enough we see huge freezers and a wide range of pork products everywhere we go. In fact we were in a shopping mall the other day and there in the middle of the clothes and lingerie area was a freezer full of it! 'Random' we think, but perhaps not so the Danes. We haven't shopped enough to know if this is normal or not.

So onto recycling. We have been told that Denmark recycles 97% of its waste, with only 3% going into landfill which, while impressive, falls short compared to Sweden who now recycle 100% of their waste! I haven't looked into the rest of Scandinavia but here 'recycling' is everywhere. 

We have a big poster plastered on the kitchen cupboards, and clear house rules proclaiming that everyone is responsible for sorting their household waste into four piles; food, plastics, paper, and incineration, with fines if it's proven we haven't done so. We get supplied with special paper bags for the food waste and bins for the other types, and have to take these down "at a minimum once a week" to the bin area that decorates our courtyard, so that the collective waste can be taken to its recycling center.

There are bins everywhere! We also discovered that these little ones we saw in the neighbouring complex, are not so little...wow!