Bio -fold bin will be checked on Monday – you need to know that

Throughout Germany, municipalities with their waste disposal companies want to control bio bins more and more from Monday, September 15th. Consumers should pay attention to the correct filling of the organic waste bins, because incorrectly filled tons are not emptied, as the municipal waste management company Magdeburg reports. The consumer then stays on his trash.

The background is new legal requirements that have specified stricter limit values ​​for foreign substances such as plastic, glass or metal in organic waste since May: a maximum of three percent foreign substances can be in organic waste according to these requirements. With plastic it is only one percent.

This is to achieve that less microplastics get into the floors and thus into the natural cycle when composting. If you have too many foreign bodies in your brown bin, you get a sticker or a banderole with which it is asked to sort them.

Plastic and compostable plastic bags are particularly problematic, explained the head of the municipal waste management company Magdeburg, Andreas Stegemann. They would not completely decompose and could get into the environment as a microplasty. Even if the trade promotes special “organic waste plastic bags” as compostable, according to the disposal expert, they never belonged to the bio bin.

If the bio bin is repeatedly filled incorrectly, it can be picked up and disposed of as residual waste, but this can be expensive: this step counts as a special emptying and is associated with higher costs, which in any case must be paid by the causers. Via possible fines, the respective Municipality decide.

Organic kitchen and garden waste belongs to the organic bin: fruit and vegetable residues, tea bags, coffee grounds, including filters, eggshells, bread, dining residues (raw, cooked, spoiled) in customary quantities as well as cheese and yog bar remains. Flowers, leaves, lawn cut, untreated wood, sawdust, wood wool, hair, springs and biodegradable small animal litter are also allowed. Paper like kitchen roll or newspaper can be included in small quantities to bind moisture.

Since 2018 there have been the ones that should sensitize citizens to the correct separation of organic waste. According to the campaign website, more than 100 municipal companies between Flensburg and Starnberg are now participating in the campaign.

However, not all federal states will take part in the control campaign from Monday: Brandenburg, the Saarland, Berlin, Bremen and Saxony have withdrawn from participation. And Thuringia is only there with a company.