Amsterdam alcoholics paid in beer for collecting litter
6 January 2014
Alcoholics are being paid in beer to clean the streets of Amsterdam as part of a project partly funded by the Dutch government. The organizers think other countries should abandon "old-fashioned political correctness" and adopt the same approach.
Bron: bbc.co.uk.
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