Bikes, Vegans and Taxes: How One German City is Helping the Country Go Net Zero

bicycles g917c929dc 1920 Bikes, Vegans and Taxes: How One German City is Helping the Country Go Net Zero

Takeaways:

  • Tübingen is also one of Germany’s most environmentally aware cities.
  • This city is the first to implement a tax on disposable packaging whereby an extra 50 cents is added on anything from coffee cups to meal plates to pizza boxes.
  • Tübingen also spends three times as much on bicycle infrastructure as the Danish city of Copenhagen.

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