The sun melts beverage crates: heat causes Rodgau's biggest heap of broken glass
Created: 06/08/2022, 12:34 p.m
By: Bernhard Pelka
Big pile of rubble - a lot of work: respect for those who cleaned up.
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The heat weighs you down.
People, animals – and material.
In Rodgau, a mountain of water tanks collapses because even plastic capitulates.
Nieder-Roden – The sun beats down relentlessly on the mountains of water tanks.
The air in the central warehouse of Drinks Gotta on Henschelstraße shimmers.
36 degrees, 37 degrees, 38 degrees - the brown plastic crates with the heavy glass bottles, but also containers with lighter PET bottles are boiled downright soft - until they are finally too unstable and give way under the load.
The house-high water box towers collapse with a crash.
Glass splintered, mineral water splashed around with a hiss.
A surveillance camera is filming how the tropical summer caused the biggest heap of broken glass in Rodgau at Drinks Gotta on Wednesday afternoon.
Junior Robin Gotta calculates that around 11,000 bottles are affected.
Not all break.
But the rubble fills two dumpsters, reports op-online.de.
Scherbenmeer in Rodgau: "We're under time pressure anyway"
It took almost 40 hours to separate the rubble from the drinks that could still be used and to salvage them.
In the past few days, the employees have bravely done this, mostly early in the morning, to at least take it easy on themselves.
“We couldn't use the blatant accident at all.
We're under endless time pressure anyway," says boss Thomas Gotta.
But he and his son have an even more pressing problem.
“We have a shortage of staff and have had to severely limit our delivery service.
Sometimes we can't even serve the regular customers anymore.
That's really bad."
The Gotta family is very happy that nobody was injured in the spectacular accident and that everything is fine again in the camp.
(Bernhard Pelka)
A tour of Rodgau with the fire brigade's thermal imaging camera shows how important the Rodgau is for the city when it's hot.
