Waste
The State of Baden-Württemberg’s innovative waste management system is based on an environmentally sustainable recycling management principle. The objective is to conserve resources and avoid as much environmental pollution as possible.
The Ministry encourages product design strategies and optimised business processes which avoid as much waste as possible. It also encourages environmentally friendly material recycling and the creation of energy from waste. Measures are taken to ensure the long-term safe and cost-effective disposal of unavoidable or non-recyclable waste produced by private households and industry.
Since 1989, when Baden-Württemberg first began producing regular and detailed waste reports on its regional waste management system, volumes of domestic and bulky waste have been cut by half (to around 140 to 150 kilograms per inhabitant). On average a four-person family pays no more than between 150 and 160 euros a year in private household waste charges.
These encouraging developments reflect Baden-Württemberg’s adoption of European and federal regulatory frameworks as well as the implementation of its own Landesabfallgesetz [State Waste Management Act] and Autarkieverordnung [Autarky Ordinance].
The Ministry encourages product design strategies and optimised business processes which avoid as much waste as possible. It also encourages environmentally friendly material recycling and the creation of energy from waste. Measures are taken to ensure the long-term safe and cost-effective disposal of unavoidable or non-recyclable waste produced by private households and industry.
Since 1989, when Baden-Württemberg first began producing regular and detailed waste reports on its regional waste management system, volumes of domestic and bulky waste have been cut by half (to around 140 to 150 kilograms per inhabitant). On average a four-person family pays no more than between 150 and 160 euros a year in private household waste charges.
These encouraging developments reflect Baden-Württemberg’s adoption of European and federal regulatory frameworks as well as the implementation of its own Landesabfallgesetz [State Waste Management Act] and Autarkieverordnung [Autarky Ordinance].
