Bag removal (Hamburg)

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Special garbage bags for bag removal in Hamburg (2016)

The bag removal is a special form of regular, state-organized waste disposal with purple- and pink or red garbage bags in Hamburg , which is carried out for households that do not, for structural or other reasons trash cans can be placed. It is to be distinguished from the additional, occasional use of ordinary garbage bags or the use of chargeable "white bags" for additional, bag-wise-paid collection in Hamburg. Because of the nationwide importance of bag removal for hygiene in the city, waste separation and Hamburg's image , it has been the subject of parliamentary debates and initiatives in the Hamburg citizenship , the state parliament, and the seven district assemblies for more than thirty years .

Causes, description and implementation

Typical large-scale bag collection area with dense, listed old buildings: Northern section of "Fischers Allee" in Hamburg-Altona (2016)
Street scene in Hamburg-Ottensen (2016)

The reasons for the need to remove bags are mainly historical: While the port and some parts of the city east of the Alster were bombed considerably in 1943 during the " Operation Gomorrah " , parts of the city with little or no manufacturing industry were spared. Due to the housing shortage in the post-war period , some of these residential buildings have remained unchanged to the present day , but due to the dense development and traffic management, they do not have the appropriate outside areas for setting up rubbish bins or only basement spaces for rubbish bins that are no longer up-to-date or unreasonable for them Residents and disposers are alike, but were standard around 1900. Because the majority of the buildings are now listed buildings, a renovation would be associated with a corresponding effort and high costs for the housing companies or is fundamentally impossible due to the legal framework. With regard to the historic staircase district in Blankenese , according to official estimates, there is no alternative to bag removal in sight because of the narrow, long stairs and dense development on the Elbe slope (status: May 2001).

Unless having a household the requirements for the formation of regular garbage bins, waste disposal is through the municipal cleaning Hamburg per bag disposed . Bag removal is carried out for 13,610 households in Hamburg (as of April 2014); in January 1998 there were 19,315 households. They are distributed over almost all 104 districts, but are concentrated in the districts of Altona-Altstadt , Altona-Nord , Blankenese , Eppendorf , Hoheluft-West , Neustadt , Ottensen , Rotherbaum , St. Georg , St. Pauli and Uhlenhorst . By far the largest number of households with bag collection are in the Eimsbüttel district of the district of the same name, with more than 4,000 households affected (as of April 2014).

Corresponding households receive quarterly a roll having a specified number of pink or red (up to 1999: gray-black), officially designated garbage bags, their total capacity to those of other dumpsters households corresponds to (60 or 120 liters). Additional free garbage bags are not available. The municipal waste incurred is placed in the sacks unseparated by the residents and the sacks are knotted when the filling limit mark is reached (the sacks with red bast ribbons are sometimes given out as an additional locking aid). The bags should only be placed in front of the house entrance shortly before the day of collection or, if available in the vicinity, directly on the roadside. Passing on these special garbage bags to third parties or using them at other locations is not permitted. The same fees apply for bag removal as for container removal in Hamburg.

Problems and alternatives

Collection room for bag removal in an old building basement in Hamburg (2016)
Underground garbage container in Hamburg-Billstedt (2016)
Chemnitzstrasse in Hamburg-Altona: Underground containers have replaced the bag removal system (2016)

Sack removal is a form of waste disposal that has been a makeshift solution for decades ; The basic goal is to convert all households in Hamburg to the regular bin disposal. The bag removal does not allow waste to be separated into waste paper , organic waste and residual waste, and often no additional collection of recyclable materials . Garbage bags standing on the street can untangle themselves or are willfully slashed or opened by other people or animals, which leads to household waste lying on sidewalks and streets.

The Senate introduced in 2001 also in a formal message to the citizens realize that it very often to materials provided by bulky waste comes to the sacks and also have accumulations of garbage bags on the street tends to continue to grow through third garbage. All of this promotes the emergence of rats and vermin as well as a possible odor nuisance or makes it more difficult for the city cleaning service to collect it. In addition, it is not in the interest of the Senate to have household rubbish on the street or a collection of garbage bags in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in order to avoid the negative image of a “dirty city”.

The city cleaning of Hamburg names a main problem with the handling that the residents of the affected households put bags on the roadside immediately after picking them up instead of collecting them in their own apartment or in the basement until shortly before the next pick-up date, which is why they are are obliged. In most of the houses affected by the bag removal, there is a separate garbage collection room, which is either not used for this purpose or, for example, is used as a bicycle storage room . Such behavior would give the inaccurate impression of “permanent littering ” in the vicinity of the affected houses and the likelihood that garbage bags lying in the open would be opened is permanently high. Since 2011, bags have also been removed at night in the Reeperbahn area and on the Kiez near the affected buildings in order to minimize the consequences of items being provided and the accumulation of third-party waste during the day.

An alternative to the bag removal could subterranean collecting his ( underground tank ), but (in the purchase or installation expensive excavation , crane work of the ground, laying of pipelines, test of load capacity, etc.) and also often can not be built structurally.

As prerequisites for the installation of underground containers at potential locations, the Senate states that the proportion of bag removal for residual waste should be as high as possible, that there must be as much freedom as possible in the planned area, that the safety and ease of traffic (including bicycle and Pedestrian traffic) must be guaranteed that the ground must be paved and suitable for loads of at least 26 tons, that no parking spaces are lost as a result of the measure, that safe accessibility for the crane vehicles of the municipal cleaning service must be guaranteed for the garbage collection (maximum 8 , 5 m distance and at least 8 m clearance height in the area of ​​the crane work) and that building openings (windows and doors) must be sufficiently distant. Locations in the root area of ​​trees are generally not permitted. Only if the above criteria are met will a corresponding request for the installation of underground containers be made prior to a suitability agreement with the responsible district office and the responsible police station. In Hamburg there are 283 underground containers, distributed over the entire city area (except on the North Sea island of Neuwerk , which belongs to the Hamburg-Mitte district; as of April 2014).

Public debate and parliamentary referral

The topic is taken up again and again by the regional media, sometimes with the repetition of untrue facts such as the allegation of a fine for leaving garbage bags too early in the open air or allegedly throwing bags to remove bags from windows of residential buildings onto the sidewalk.

For more than thirty years, bag removal has regularly been the subject of parliamentary discussion and debates in the Hamburg Parliament, the state parliament of the Hanseatic city. In addition, the subject is discussed in the seven district assemblies (regional administrative committees that work according to parliamentary principles).

Legislative period /
printed matter number 		date Author or participating member (s) title
12/265 June 1, 1987 Senate bill (notification to the citizenship) Garbage collection and recycling in Hamburg
16/3 November 12, 1997 Ole von Beust ( CDU ) Bag removal in Hamburg (plenary debate)
16/301 January 16, 1998 Henning Tants (CDU) Sack collection in Hamburg (garbage collection)
16/6051 May 15, 2001 Senate bill (notification to the citizenship) Improvement of city maintenance and cleanliness (Chapter 3.1.2 "Reduction of garbage bag disposal")
17/2345 March 4, 2003 Monika Schaal ( SPD ) Bag removal
18/4990 September 13, 2006 Alexander-Martin Sardina (CDU) Bag removal - questions about waste disposal in Hamburg (especially in the Hamburg-Mitte district or the Horn district)
19/7105 August 26, 2010 Monika Schaal, Dorothee Stapelfeldt , Ole Thorben Buschhüter , Annegret Krischok , Michael Neumann , Ties Rabe and Carola Thimm (SPD) Waste and recycling management in Hamburg
19/47 December 31, 2010 Senate bill (ordinance) Ordinance to improve the collection of recyclable materials in the context of public waste disposal (Hamburg Recycling Ordinance)
20/5939 November 22, 2012 Kurt Duwe ( FDP ) Garbage disposal in Hamburg
20/8548 June 28, 2013 Kurt Duwe (FDP) Underground garbage bins
20/11530 April 22, 2014 Martin Bill and Stefanie von Berg ( GAL ) Garbage disposal - pink bags and underfloor containers
21/1860 October 8, 2015 Stephan Gamm (CDU) Underfloor systems and pink garbage bags
21/6913 29th November 2016 Monika Schaal, Ole Thorben Buschhüter, Andreas Dressel , Annegret Kerp-Esche , Gert Kekstadt , Anne Krischok, Gulfam Malik , Hauke ​​Wagner (SPD) and Ulrike Sparr , Stefanie von Berg, Christiane Blömeke , Anna Gallina , Antje Möller , Anjes Tjarks (GAL ) Pink bags away from the street - purely in underfloor containers
21/10673 October 24, 2017 Stephan Gamm (CDU) "Reduce residual waste bins, save fees" program. Will the change in the Waste Container Usage Ordinance be financed by the new cleanliness fee? Underfloor systems and pink garbage bags

Bag removal elsewhere

  • In the communities of the former district of Hanover (today " Region Hanover ") there was previously a bag collection. The responsible "Zweckverband Abfallwirtschaft" (waste management association) in the Hanover region is changing the system for residual waste and has been gradually converting to bin collection since 2014. However, the property owners had the option of keeping the bag collection for their property.
  • In Switzerland, there is a chargeable bag collection service in many municipalities, which is called " garbage collection ". Special rubbish bags with a volume-based (17, 35, 60 or 110 liter) bag fee already included in the purchase price are mandatory.
  • In some places in the south of Germany, near the Swiss border, a sack fee has also been introduced.

literature

  • German Association of Cities (Ed.): The Association of Cities . Volume 29. Page 359 (Bag removal in Hamburg). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1976.
  • Thomas Plümer, Roland Multhaup: Integrated Waste Management. Strategic and operational analysis. Chapter "Disposal situation in the municipal waste sector". Springer Science + Business Media, 1995, ISBN 978-3-540-62156-0 .
  • Klaus Cord-Landwehr: Introduction to waste management. Bag removal. Vieweg + Teubner, 2002, ISBN 978-3-322-92716-3 .

Web links

Commons : Bag removal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of Stadtreinigung Hamburg, accessed on August 15, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Communication from the Senate to the citizenship "Improvement of city maintenance and cleanliness" of May 15, 2001.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Written small inquiry , printed matter 16/301
  4. ↑ Text and images on pink bags and UFS in Eimsbüttler Nachrichten of March 10, 2015
  5. ↑ Problem case Waterloostraße at ZeitOnline , accessed on September 30, 2016
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Written small inquiry “Garbage disposal - pink sacks and underfloor containers” (printed matter 20/11530) and answer from the Senate of April 22, 2014.
  7. ↑ Stadtreinigung Hamburg: customer information 2017. Everything about recycling, waste and cleanliness in Hamburg. Hamburg, 2017. page 36.
  8. ↑ a b Small written inquiry , printed matter 20/5939
  9. ↑ Underfloor containers on Stadtreinigung.hamburg.de
  10. ↑ a b Small written inquiry , printed matter 20/8548
  11. ↑ Garbage bags should go underground in Eimsbüttel and Altona . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , October 21, 2015; accessed on August 15, 2016.
  12. ↑ Text accompanying the radio broadcast on " NDR 90.3 aktuell" on May 3, 2016 at 6:00 pm.
  13. ↑ Article “Garbage disposal: Why do garbage bags have to be lying around here? Many Hamburg households do not have any garbage cans and simply put their garbage bags by the street. It stinks to one of the readers. Our columnist asked. ”In the time of April 10, 2014, accessed on August 26, 2016.
  14. ↑ Printed matter 20-1452 of the district assembly Altona "There was a lot of talk - now the pink sacks [sic!] Must finally be abolished" from September 14, 2015.
  15. ↑ Printed matter XX / 4350.1 of the district assembly Hamburg-Mitte “Conversion of sack disposal to fixed garbage containers on public land” from September 10, 2013.
  16. ^ Plenary minutes of the meeting of the Hamburg citizenship on Wednesday, November 12, 1997
  17. ↑ Small written inquiry , printed matter 17/2345
  18. ↑ Small written inquiry , printed matter 18/4990
  19. ↑ Major inquiry , printed matter 19/7105
  20. ↑ Hamburg Law and Ordinance Gazette , No. 47, December 31, 2010.
  21. ↑ Small written inquiry , printed matter 20/11530
  22. ↑ Small written inquiry , printed matter 21/1860
  23. ↑ Application , printed matter 21/6913
  24. ↑ Small written inquiry , printed matter 21/10673
  25. ↑ Information from Aha on the change from sack to bin ( Memento from August 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  26. ↑ Article in the Hannoversche Allgemeine "Garbage experts from CDU and SPD want to keep sack removal" from October 18, 2010, accessed on August 25, 2016.
  27. ↑ https://www.buesingen.de/ceasy/resource/?id=1971&download=1
  28. ↑ https://www.suedkurier.de/region/hochrhein/kreis-waldshut/Restmuell-wird-2020-teurer-Grundgebuehr-und-Leerungen-der-Muelltonnen-kosten-kuenftig-mehr;art372586,10378977