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pawian   
2 Jul 2013
UK, Ireland / Western Europe is not Paradise after all (Polish doctors in the UK more popular) [75]

My wife just called, she took our medium son to hospital, the foot he sprained yesterday is already in plaster for a week. She is going to buy a pair of crutches for 37 zlotys.

After a week, we came back to hospital for plaster removal by the kid surgeon. Registration, 1 hour waiting, first examination and removal, going to have another X-ray taken, second examination. We spent 2 hours and I was really impressed by their eifficiency. One novelty (I haven`t been to hospital for a long time) which I observed: they send X-rays over hospital network, but we got our CD anyway (the problem is I can`t open it at home).

Not bad.
pawian   
2 Jul 2013
Life / Poland's Environment, recycling [79]

Warsaw, anyone?

Yes, Warsaw!
yellowpagesgoesgreen.org/Warsaw-IN/Rubbish+-and-+Garbage+Removal
pawian   
1 Jul 2013
History / The smallest Poland ever? [115]

Less tv and more sex. Asia population is booming, Africa population is booming.

Exactly.
pawian   
1 Jul 2013
Love / WHY DO POLISH MEN LIE? [150]

WHY DO POLISH MEN LIE?

Wrong! The title should go:

and then, we should say: Men lie, but women lie better.
pawian   
1 Jul 2013
Life / Poland's Environment, recycling [79]

If a local polish company collects and treats the garbage, the local economy can benefit from that and the money stays in Poland.

Yes. I am heartily for that. Poland should rule!

It's up for Polish companies to compete. There's a level playing field,

Yes! Because I also support the free market!
pawian   
1 Jul 2013
Food / What made in Poland produce would you recommend [110]

Well, yes, Polish-made furniture is quite popular:
Poland is the fourth largest exporter of furniture globally, with exports amounting to 5.6 billion euro in 2010. Poland comes fourth behind Italy, Germany and export leaders China. While both Italian and German furniture exports are for exclusive markets, Polish furniture is regarded as less expensive but of good quality. - See more at: henews.pl/1/12/Artykul/24979,Poland-champions-global-furniture-exports#sthash.a9pK9wGh.dpuf

Poland furniture

Solaris.

Thanks.
pawian   
1 Jul 2013
Life / Poland's Environment, recycling [79]

That`s an important intention behind the whole scheme : if everybody has to pay the tax for the rubbish collection, no matter if they produce any thrash, then people won`t dump it in other places.
pawian   
1 Jul 2013
Life / Poland's Environment, recycling [79]

Gumi, welcome back. Yes, I thought the same on seconds thoughts after having written the post but too late to edit it. Thank you for pointing to it.

But, how many cities/towns/counties signed contracts with German company?
pawian   
1 Jul 2013
Life / Poland's Environment, recycling [79]

unfortunately no Polish company is willing to take the lead on this so a foreign company comes in and does the job. big deal.

Yes, it is free market!

rinsing the crap off the recyclables is no biggie. seriously? How lazy can you be?

It is not the matter of laziness. Wasting water to clean crap is not too environmentally friendly.

Poland waste

Personally, I think garbage collection should be organized by the municipality (gmina) and included in property taxes. Like in Canada

These are the rules from 01.07.2013

Previously, each household or business was expected to sign a contract with a waste disposal company (in apartment blocks an administrator did so), but problems emerged with rubbish being dumped illegally, either in neighbours' bins or in the wild, detrimentally to the environment. The new system sees each household obliged to pay a monthly tax, calculated according to the number of residents, the size of the property and water usage. Meanwhile, local municipalities themselves will be responsible for waste collection, disposal and recycling.

According to Eurostat, the official statistics office of the EU, some 60 kg of 315 kg waste produced by the average Pole in 2011 ended up as unprocessed litter (the EU average was 503 kg per person, from which 17 kg ended up as litter. As regards actual treated rubbish, in Poland, 71 percent ended up in landfills, while 28 percent was recycled or composted, and 1 percent burnt. Meanwhile, the EU average was estimated at 37 percent in landfills, 38 percent recycled or composted and 23 percent burnt.
pawian   
1 Jul 2013
Life / Poland's Environment, recycling [79]

The biggest problem - look at the garbage containers in Poland. You can see through all garbage. And they are usually located in the central locations of town/villages. Looks ugly.

You mean this?

I have never seen them in Krakow. They can`t be so popular in Poland, then. :):)

We have plastic ones: poland plastic

Pawian, jesteś gliwiczaninem? ;D

No, I don`t live in Gliwice but my parents made me there. :):):)

My dad:

Then some people from Poland should start a waste treatment plant, recover some of the waste so it can be recycled and kick out the germans from doing that.

Sooner or later, come on.
pawian   
1 Jul 2013
Life / Poland's Environment, recycling [79]

Companies which collect garbage which has been previously separated can reduce their treatment costs and thus increase their profit using the average citizen work for that. Then those companies charge the municipality which charges their citizens for collecting the garbage.

To certain extent, you are right.

The biggest garbage collector in Poland is the German company REMONDIS, which is widely known for paying very low wages (in Poland as well as in Germany) and having a slave policy towards their employees (for instance, by not paying extra worked hours) and much more.

I didn`t know that.

But wait a little, soon competition will make prices drop.

Summarizing, you guys benefit the Germans

Not for ever. :):):)
pawian   
1 Jul 2013
Language / Find mistakes - only for non-Polish posters [13]

Ok, ok, I will stay away :)

But not too away. What if nobody else posts? Then your input might be worth its weight in gold.... :):):)

What`s wrong?:
Zjadłem talerz w gorącej zupie.
pawian   
1 Jul 2013
Life / Poland's Environment, recycling [79]

just the one bin here.... for the usual mixed rubbish.

Yes, they even wrote an article about the situation in Wrocław.

There is no containers, no information - it's a big mess. Although from the first day of July in came the Act about rubbish into force, the revolution like missed ... Wroclaw. - We declared segregation of rubbish, but there is still no suitable containers - Zdzislaw nervous.

tvn24.pl/smieciowa-rewolucja-sobie-a-wroclaw-sobie,336479,s.html
But don`t worry - that is just a transition period, say local authorities. Nothing is easy in the beginning. Old bins had to remain until the end of June due to previous contracts. New bins will arrive within a month.
pawian   
30 Jun 2013
Language / Find mistakes - only for non-Polish posters [13]

Hmmm.. mods can play, of course, but ........

Please, don`t take it personally but the thread is only for non-native Polish users of PF.

It is simply too easy for Polish guys

:(:(:(:(

Sorry.
pawian   
30 Jun 2013
Life / Poland's Environment, recycling [79]

Yes, but not really wash, more rinse.

Well, the instructions on leaflets mention washing, not rinsing. :):):):)

Just from July the rules of rubbish collection will change in Gliwice and throughout the country. Although time flies, there is still a lot of questions related to the new system.

24gliwice.pl/wiadomosci/?p=51493

They also request/advise to wash/rinse plastic pots like youghurt etc. Crazy?
pawian   
30 Jun 2013
Life / Poland's Environment, recycling [79]

Merged: New rubbish collection/segregation policy in Poland from 01.07.2013

Yes, from tomorrow all Poles will have to segregate their rubbish if they want to pay lower prices for having their rubbish collected by municipal services.

I am for, of course. I have always tried to be green.

But I have some doubts.

In your countries, when you segregate, do you really wash bottles and cans before putting them into special containers??? That`s what is expected of Poles. I understand the reasons, but wasting water to wash rubbish is a bit crazy to me.
pawian   
30 Jun 2013
UK, Ireland / Western Europe is not Paradise after all (Polish doctors in the UK more popular) [75]

Pawian, how do you do it? I only got flowers and sweets :(

I get serious presents from private students (especially when I don`t rise the prices) while only flowers from school kids. :):):) And yes, once a got a leather bag from my class who was leaving school. Parents had decided so, nobody had consulted me and I could do nothing but to accept it.

I can understand coming afterwards with a small gift to say thank you - but during? Absolutely no way.

Yes.
I never accepted presents from uni students before giving them exams - that would be an obvious bribe.
pawian   
30 Jun 2013
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

you said yesterday you could see planes from where you live and that you wouldn't probably go.

We went after all.

So my guess is they were taken some time today.

I just said it, You can see the freshest photos from 9th Air Picnic in Krakow.

Their nationality would likely be Polish, and they are young people.

We are talking about re-enactment group.

So, let`s see more re-enactment groups from today - guess times, nationalities, units. Or whatever you can :

So, which period and where?


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