Register collection of organic waste
Service description
If you collect biodegradable waste (organic kitchen waste and garden waste) separately from the residual waste, this has several advantages for the environment: you reduce the amount of residual waste and make it easier to dispose of the residual waste. Separate collection simplifies the high-quality utilisation of biowaste through fermentation. In addition, the humus components and nutrients contained in the biowaste can be returned to the natural cycle as fermentation substrate or compost.
Prerequisites
Is it biowaste from your private household and your public waste disposal organisation offers to collect your biowaste (e.g. organic waste bin)?
Then this can be put in the organic waste bin (your public waste disposal organisation has binding information):
- Organic waste collection bags made of paper
- Potted plants (without pot), also with potting soil
- Bio-waste collection bags made from biodegradable plastic
- Bread and bakery leftovers
- Eggshells
- Springs
- Fish scraps and bones (normal household quantities; if necessary wrapped in a little kitchen paper/kitchen roll or newspaper, no glossy paper, e.g. from magazines, periodicals or paper from old wallpaper)
- Meat and sausage scraps (normal household quantities; if necessary, wrapped in a little kitchen paper/kitchen roll or newspaper, no glossy paper, e.g. magazines, newspapers or paper from old wallpaper)
- Garden waste (e.g. bedding waste, tree cuttings, tree bark, flowers, potting soil, hedge and shrub cuttings, leaves, needles, plants, plant parts, brushwood, moss, lawn and grass cuttings, weeds, wild herbs, branches)
- Vegetable scraps, vegetable waste (e.g. potato peelings, vegetable peelings and so on)
- Hair
- Hay, straw (small quantities)
- Wood wool, wood shavings, sawdust (only from untreated wood)
- Coffee filter bags, coffee grounds
- Cheese residues, including natural rind
- Small animal litter (only from plant material) including excrement from small animals (e.g. hamsters, guinea pigs)
- Bones (normal household quantities; if necessary, wrapped in a little kitchen paper/kitchen roll or newspaper, not glossy paper, for example from magazines, periodicals or paper from old wallpaper)
- Dairy product residues
- Nutshells
- Fruit scraps, fruit peel (also from tropical fruits, citrus fruits)
- Salad scraps, salad waste
- Cut flowers
- Food waste, raw, cooked, spoilt (normal household quantities; if necessary, wrapped in a little kitchen paper/kitchen roll or newspaper, no glossy paper, for example from magazines, illustrations or paper from old wallpaper)
- Tea bags, tea leftovers
This does not belong in the organic waste bin:
- Ash
- Nappies (also certified biodegradable or labelled as compostable).
- Plastic flower and plant pots (also certified biodegradable or labelled as compostable)
- Wire (for example, florist's wire)
- Disposable crockery and cutlery made of plastic (also certified biodegradable or labelled as compostable)
- Excrement from animals (e.g. dog faeces)
- Glass
- Gift ribbon
- Rubber articles
- Wood scraps, treated (e.g. impregnated, painted, varnished)
- Hygiene articles (tampons, sanitary towels, etc., also certified biodegradable or labelled as compostable)
- Coffee capsules made of aluminium or plastic (also certified biodegradable or labelled as compostable)
- Refuse
- Ceramics, porcelain
- Candle remnants
- Mineral litter for small animals (for example, litter made from clay minerals such as bentonite, bird sand and so on)
- Carbon paper
- Leather remnants
- Medication
- Furniture wood
- Paper, cardboard, paper towels, paper handkerchiefs, napkins
- Plastic bags, carrier bags and shopping bags made of plastic (also certified biodegradable or labelled as compostable)
- Cleaning rags and cloths
- Carbon black
- Hazardous waste, problematic waste
- Chipboard wood
- Hoover bag
- Wallpapers
- Carpets
- Textiles
- Clay, ceramics, glass, metal
- Dressing material
- Packaging, for example made of plastic (also certified biodegradable or labelled as compostable), aluminium, glass, metal, composite packaging
- Cotton wool, cotton buds
What fees are incurred?
Information on any costs can be found in the respective waste fee statutes of your public waste disposal organisation.
Legal basis
Further information
Further information can be found on the homepage of the districts and independent cities as well as the commercial waste disposal companies.
Short text
- Registration / order collection of organic waste
- Regulations on the disposal of biowaste can be found in the individual waste disposal and waste fee statutes of the public waste disposal organisations
- In addition to the various disposal options in the collection and/or delivery system, home composting of organic waste is often permitted
- Responsible: public waste management organisation
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