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You can register the collection of your organic waste from your private household if your public waste disposal provider offers this service.

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 recycling 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.

Is it organic waste from your private household and does your public waste disposal authority offer to collect your organic waste (e.g. organic waste garbage can)?

Then it can be put in the organic waste garbage can (your public waste disposal authority has binding information):

• Bio-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 waste
• Egg shells
• feathers
• Fish scraps and bones (normal household quantities; if necessary, wrapped in a little kitchen paper/kitchen roll or newspaper, no glossy paper, for example from magazines, periodicals or paper from old wallpaper)
• Meat and sausage waste (normal household quantities; if necessary, wrapped in a small amount of kitchen paper/kitchen roll or newspaper, no glossy paper, e.g. magazines, periodicals or paper from old wallpaper)
• Garden waste (e.g. debris from flower beds, tree cuttings, tree bark, flowers, potting soil, hedge and shrub cuttings, leaves, needles, plants, plant parts, brushwood, moss, lawn and grass cuttings, weeds, wild plants, 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 small amount of kitchen paper/kitchen roll or newspaper, no 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, spoiled (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 garbage can:

• Ash
• Diapers (also certified biodegradable or labeled as compostable).
• Plastic flower and plant pots (also certified biodegradable or labeled as compostable)
• Wire (e.g. flower binding wire)
• Disposable tableware and cutlery made of plastic (also certified biodegradable or labeled as compostable)
• Animal excrement (e.g. dog excrement)
• glass
• Gift ribbon
• Rubber articles
• Wood waste, treated (e.g. impregnated, painted, varnished)
• Hygiene articles (tampons, sanitary towels, etc., also certified biodegradable or labeled as compostable)
• Coffee capsules made of aluminum or plastic (also certified biodegradable or labeled as compostable)
• Refuse
• Ceramics, porcelain
• Candle residues
• Mineral litter for small animals (for example, litter made from clay minerals such as bentonite, bird sand and so on)
• carbon paper
• leather scraps
• medicines
• furniture wood
• Paper, cardboard, paper towels, paper handkerchiefs, napkins
• Plastic bags, plastic carrier bags and shopping bags (also certified biodegradable or labeled as compostable)
• Cleaning rags and cloths
• soot
• Waste containing harmful substances, problem waste
• chipboard wood
• Vacuum cleaner bags
• wallpaper
• carpets
• textiles
• Clay, ceramics, glass, metal
• Dressing material
• Packaging, for example made of plastic (also certified biodegradable or labeled as compostable), aluminum, glass, metal, composite packaging
• Absorbent cotton, cotton buds

Information on any costs can be found in the respective waste fee statutes of your public waste disposal authority.

Further information can be found on the homepage of the districts and independent cities as well as the commercial waste disposal companies.

• Registration / Order collection of biowaste
• Regulations on the disposal of organic waste can be found in the individual waste disposal and waste fee statutes of the public waste disposal authorities
• 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 authorities