Frankfurt Disposal and Service GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1995 |
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Frankfurt am Main , Germany
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| Number of employees | approx. 1,500 |
| sales | 194 million euros |
| Branch | Waste disposal industry |
| Website | www.fes-frankfurt.de |
The Frankfurt disposal and service GmbH (FES) is a German company in the waste management industry in Frankfurt . The company emerged in 1995/96 from the former Office for Waste Management and City Cleaning of the City of Frankfurt am Main. Today FES is the largest waste disposal company in the Rhine-Main region and offers disposal and surface cleaning services for municipalities, industry, trade, commerce and private customers.
Fields of activity
The city of Frankfurt am Main is still FES’s biggest customer. The tasks that the company carries out for the city result, among other things, from the waste statute of the city of Frankfurt am Main, the statute for street cleaning of the city of Frankfurt am Main, the Hessian municipal code and the waste concepts of the Hessian state government.
In addition, FES is for the RMA Rhein-Main Abfall GmbH.
Overview of benefits and services
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Disposal services
- Collection and disposal of residual waste, waste paper, organic waste, packaging waste, waste glass, bulky waste, green waste, waste wood, scrap metal, etc.
- Recycling and marketing of recyclable materials
- Hazardous waste disposal / collection of pollutants
- Faeces disposal
- Container and container service
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Cleaning services
- Municipal city cleaning
- Surface and object cleaning
- Green maintenance
- Foliage and winter service
- Operation and cleaning of public toilets
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Complete services
- Factory disposal
- Waste management
- Traffic measures
- Event service
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Services
- Trunk services
- Service Center
- call center
- Online services such as Waste ABC or Waste Calendar
- Waste advice
Household / commercial waste
A general distinction is made between the disposal of household waste (waste from private households) and commercial waste (waste from industry, trade and commercial operations).
Household waste: There is a compulsory connection and use for household waste, i. H. private households are obliged to dispose of their waste through the municipal waste management system. In addition to the city of Frankfurt am Main, FES 'municipal customers also include various other municipalities in the Rhine-Main area.
Four garbage cans are available to all Frankfurt households: for residual waste, waste paper, organic waste and packaging. These bins are emptied by FES at regular intervals. FES will collect bulky waste up to 10 m³ free of charge after prior notification. Around 1,500 waste glass containers are available for waste glass throughout the city. Pollutants can be delivered to pollutant mobiles. Waste paper Green waste, bulky waste, packaging, scrap metal, electrical appliances and wood can also be delivered by Frankfurt citizens themselves as part of the so-called "trunk service".
Many municipalities in the Rhine-Main area no longer have their own waste management company, but instead award these services to waste disposal companies at regular intervals in the course of tenders. FES regularly participates in these tenders and wins one or the other order.
Commercial waste: FES is also responsible for the disposal of residual waste that occurs at a commercial enterprise in Frankfurt am Main. All other waste generated by commercial operations (e.g. recyclable materials), on the other hand, is not subject to compulsory connection and use, but must be properly disposed of by the commercial operations under their own responsibility. In this area of the waste disposal market there is free competition in which FES participates successfully.
Container systems
There is a 4-ton system in Frankfurt am Main (see above). The waste bins (rubbish bins) are made of plastic and have rollers. The contents of the bins are marked by different colored lids: gray for residual waste, green for waste paper, brown for organic waste and yellow for packaging. This color scheme is not uniform in Germany and can vary from municipality to municipality. The bins are available in various sizes from 80 liters to 1,100 liters. These are divided as follows: residual waste (80, 120, 240, 770 & 1100 l), organic (120 & 240 l), paper and packaging (120, 240, 770 & 1100 l). The bins are the property of FES and can be ordered, canceled or exchanged there. There are also a large number of different container systems for commercial use. The offer ranges from 30 liter special buckets up to 36 m³ containers, which are emptied from rear loader, side loader or front loader vehicles or changed from set-down or roll-off vehicles. The range of containers also includes self-compression containers and numerous custom-made products for individual customers, e.g. B. for use in disposal in high-rise buildings and in shopping centers.
fees
The determination and collection of the fees for waste disposal and street cleaning is a sovereign task of the city of Frankfurt am Main. All information and explanations can be found on the website of the city of Frankfurt am Main: Waste fee statute of the city of Frankfurt am Main, street cleaning statute of the city of Frankfurt am Main.
Shareholder
The company was founded in 1995 by the city of Frankfurt am Main as the sole shareholder. With effect from January 1, 1998, Remondis , today the largest German waste disposal company, took over a minority share in FES, together with the management of the company's operational business. This was preceded by an invitation to tender for this minority share, in which, in addition to German waste disposal companies, several companies from other European countries had participated.
FES is therefore a mixed-economy company, also known as a private-public partnership (PPP) .
history
Headquarters Luisenhof
The FES uses the Luisenhof in the Bornheim district of Frankfurt as its headquarters. The Luisenhof was once a medieval military post at the gates of the city, which also served as a rural refuge for patrician families. In 1837 the then crumbling property came into the possession of the Rothschild family. This created the Günthersburgpark, which has been preserved to this day, and built a classical summer palace. Mayer Carl von Rothschild built the "Luisenhof" in 1866 to replace the dilapidated economic courtyard of the castle and named it after his wife Louise. In 1898 the city of Frankfurt am Main acquired the estate from Rothschild’s legacy and set up its fleet there in the same year. Since then, the Luisenhof has served as the administrative headquarters and depot for garbage collection and street cleaning. On January 1, 1996, the FES moved into the location.
Milestones before the foundation of FES
In 1855 the city of Frankfurt am Main gave farmers the first orders to remove rubbish. The municipal trucking office started operations in 1873. With a city-owned vehicle fleet, it drove away household and street rubbish. The city acquired the Luisenhof in 1889.
The city cleaning office became its own department in 1954. Further developments were the establishment of a waste incineration plant in Frankfurt's north-west town in 1965, the introduction of the waste paper bin in the Frankfurt metropolitan area in 1986 and the introduction of the yellow bin in the Frankfurt metropolitan area in 1992. The first comprehensive mobile hazardous waste collections began in 1988. On December 31, 1999 the office for Waste management and city cleaning.
Milestones from the foundation of FES
After the end of the office for waste management and city cleaning, the FES Frankfurter Entsorgungs- und Service GmbH was founded in 1995, which started operations on January 1, 1996. In 1998 REMONDIS took over 49% of FES. In the same year the organic waste bin was introduced in the city of Frankfurt, and the organic waste treatment plant went into operation one year later.
In 2000, FES acquired the waste reloading facility in Frankfurt's Osthafen. At the same time, the slag processing plant was relocated to the Flörsheim / Wicker landfill and Flughafen-Service GmbH was founded to dispose of waste from Frankfurt Airport. Another new establishment followed in 2002 with FES Abfallmanagement und Service GmbH (FAS) as a subsidiary of FES. In 2003 the new waste paper sorting plant went into operation. In the same year FES took over the majority stake in the Frankfurt foot cleaning company Dr. Feiler & Co.
The waste incineration plant was renovated during operation from 2004 to 2009 and renamed the Frankfurt am Main waste-to-energy plant . MHKW GmbH was founded in 2006 as the operating company. There were further innovations in 2005 in the slag processing plant, which was retrofitted and optimized, and in 2006 in the commercial waste sorting plant, which went into operation in Frankfurt's Osthafen. The Frankfurt footpath cleaning Dr. Feiler & Co. became a 100% subsidiary of FES that year and traded as FFR GmbH.
In 2008 the slag processing plant was modernized again. In 2009 the FES service center moved into new premises on the Liebfrauenberg.
Corporate group
The FES group comprises the following companies:
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FFR GmbH (100%)
FFR is the largest provider of private winter services in Frankfurt am Main. In addition, the company oversees the areas of area and property cleaning, green maintenance, construction site service (traffic control and blocking measures) and event service (fresh water, waste water, cleaning, blocking, etc.) at major events. -
FES Abfallmanagement- und Service GmbH (FAS) (100%)
The main task of FAS is the emptying of the yellow bin in various municipalities in the Rhine-Main area. In addition, in some surrounding communities u. a. Residual waste, bulky waste, e-waste, waste paper, waste glass and green waste removed. Further business areas are the container service for commercial customers and the waste disposal of major customers. -
RMB Rhein-Main Biokompost GmbH (RMB) (100%)
Since 1999 RMB has been recycling all kinds of biodegradable waste. It operates a bio-waste treatment plant in Frankfurt's Osthafen which combines fermentation and tunnel rotting. Nutrient-rich compost and ecologically clean energy are obtained from organic waste. The compost produced under the brand name "humerra" is of particularly high quality and bears the RAL seal of approval. The biogas produced during the fermentation process is converted into heat and electricity in our own combined heat and power plant. The heat and electrical energy obtained completely cover the needs of the system. In addition, the electricity generated beyond the company's own needs is fed into the public supply network. -
Flughafen-Service GmbH (FSG) (33.3%)
FSG is a joint venture between FES, Fraport AG and Meinhardt Städtereinigung & Co. KG. The company provides waste disposal services for Frankfurt Airport and Hahn Airport. -
Müllheizkraftwerk Frankfurt am Main GmbH (MHKW) (50%)
MHKW is a joint venture between FES and Mainova AG and has been operating the refurbished waste-to-energy plant in Frankfurt's north-west town since 2007.
The companies of the FES group are members of the disposal association of the German waste disposal industry. V.
Operated plants
FES operates several waste treatment plants as well as in-house workshops:
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Waste paper sorting
plant The plant was built in 2003. Its technical core is the optoelectronic sorting process. Using high-resolution camera technology and CMYK sensors, it detects cardboard boxes and colored papers as well as foreign matter. The various paper grades are pressed into bales or sent to the paper industry as loose goods. Capacity: 130,000 t per year. -
Waste reloading
facility The facility primarily serves to ensure regular waste disposal in the Rhine-Main region in the event of failure of the waste incineration facilities in Frankfurt and Offenbach. In addition, z. B. bulky waste, wood, plastics and construction waste are dumped, separated according to their usability and then disposed of in the various recycling channels. Transshipment volume: 160,000 t per year. -
Biowaste treatment plant
(see corporate group: RMB) -
Commercial waste sorting system
The system offers commercial customers, in particular, who cannot collect waste separately, a way of environmentally friendly disposal. Waste is sorted in an automated, multi-stage process and using optical detection methods. The raw materials obtained are recycled. Capacity: 75,000 t per year. -
Waste-to- energy power plant Waste incineration plant and combined heat and power plant were built at the same time, but organizationally separated from 1965 to supply district heating to the new Frankfurt district of Nordweststadt and have been retrofitted several times since then. Commercial waste has also been thermally recycled since 1999. In the course of renovation work, which was completed in 2009, both parts of the plant were combined into a fully integrated waste-to-energy plant. Capacity: 525,000 t per year. -
Small
pollutant storage The small pollutant storage is used for the interim storage of hazardous waste from household waste collection and from business. The various hazardous waste are grouped into transportable units and from here they are actually disposed of in a hazardous waste disposal facility. Handling volume: an average of 350 t per year. -
Slag
processing plant The incineration slag from the waste incineration plant in Frankfurt am Main and other waste incineration plants are processed by FES in its own plant on the site of the Flörsheim / Wicker landfill. The fine slag obtained in this way is used in landfill construction. Coarse components are deposited on the landfill, unburned items are transported back to the waste incineration plant. In the course of processing, ferrous metals and non-ferrous metals are separated and returned for material recycling. Capacity: 350,000 t per year. -
Kfz-Werkstatt
FES maintains one of the largest workshops for commercial vehicles in the Rhine-Main region in order to minimize the downtime of its own disposal and cleaning vehicles and thus the vehicle reserves to be kept. -
Container workshop
The container workshop carries out repairs on the waste collection bins and carries out the statutory checks.
FES services in numbers
The FES (in 2009)
- recorded 670,000 t of waste per year (without slag processing),
- 316,500 t of this from private households in Frankfurt am Main (all groups),
- emptied 43,000 rubbish bins per day (all groups)
- and 26,500 bin empties per week,
- takes care of a total of 288,000 (80 - 1,100 l / all fractions),
- around 2800 emptying containers (2.5 and 5 m³) and
- around 1712 roll-off and skip containers (1.7 - 36 m³),
- cleaned 31 million m² area per week,
- cleaned 2500 gullies per week (60,000 in total),
- performed winter maintenance on 1250 kilometers of road,
- operates 36 public toilets in Frankfurt am Main,
- fetched a total of approx. 23,000 m³ of faeces from pits,
- returned approx. 232,000 recyclable materials (without thermal recycling) to the material cycle.
Social engagement
- Fessie - is an educational offer for schools and kindergartens / day nurseries on the subject of waste disposal and recycling. The program maintains its own online platform, a learning workshop, information materials, computer games and the Fessie game bin.
- FES supports the ' School Cup powered by FES ' as part of the promotion of young talent and schools by the Fraport Skyliners, a professional basketball club . In 2008 64 school teams took part in this competition.
Web links
credentials
- ↑ Waste fee statutes of the City of Frankfurt am Main accessed on Feb. 25, 2020
- ↑ The history of the Luisenhof in Frankfurt Bornheim , Sabine Hock (FES 2006)