Waste can always cause trouble in cities - especially when it is not collected. Nuremberg’s third mayor Christian Vogel (SPD) recently complained about precisely this problem in some parts of the city on Instagram: „The garbage cans have not been emptied for some time. The company justifies the problem with an existing staff shortage.“
According to a report by t-online, this includes the district of Moorenbrunn in the south-east of Nuremberg. Mountains of garbage are said to have piled up there for over two weeks because the garbage was not collected.
You need to know this: In Nuremberg, residual and organic waste is collected and deposited by the municipal company Abfallwirtschaftsbetrieb Stadt Nürnberg (ASN). Paper waste is collected and taken away by Veolia on behalf of the City of Nuremberg.
The company Veolia also takes care of the yellow garbage cans, i.e. the packaging waste: „Responsibility for the yellow garbage cans lies with the Dual System or the contracted company, which must empty the garbage cans on behalf of the Dual System,“ explains Mayor Vogel in his post.
Incidentally, consumers pay the costs of disposing of packaging waste directly when they buy the products. Mayor Vogel is frustrated: „The City of Nuremberg, represented by the ASN, regularly admonishes the contracted company, but has no legal recourse because it is not a sovereign task of the public sector. As I said, this is a private sector task.“
He calls on those responsible to exert pressure: „The Grüne Punkt Holding, which is responsible for the dual system, commissions the individual companies to dispose of the waste, not the city.