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For the environmentally friendly disposal of commercial municipal waste, certain construction and demolition waste and other wastes listed in the annex to the ordinance, the legislator has enacted the Commercial Waste Ordinance (GewAbfV). In order to ensure that waste is recovered properly and without damage and in the highest possible quality, segregation requirements have been introduced for certain types of waste.

The regulations of the GewAbfV must be observed by the commercial producers of the aforementioned waste as well as those who possess this waste without having generated it. This also includes operators of certain pre-treatment plants.

The following commercial municipal waste must be kept separate, stored, collected, transported and recovered:

• Paper and cardboard
• Glass
• Synthetics
• Metals
• biodegradable kitchen and canteen waste, biodegradable garden and park waste, and market waste.

Waste can be collected in a mixed form if it is fed into a pre-treatment plant in accordance with § 4 GewAbfV and it is guaranteed that it is sorted out there in largely the same quantity and material purity and fed into material or energy recycling. For this purpose, the mixture must be limited to certain substances.
Construction and demolition waste must be kept separate, stored, collected, transported and recycled, provided that they are generated separately, as follows:

• Glass
• Synthetics
• Metals, including alloys
• Concrete, with the exception of concrete containing hazardous substances
• Bricks, with the exception of bricks containing hazardous substances
• Tiles, bricks, ceramics, unless they contain hazardous substances
• Mixtures of concrete, brick, tile and ceramics, unless they contain hazardous substances.
  In the case of hazardous waste, it must also be kept separate, stored, collected, transported and disposed of properly.

In the case of hazardous waste, it must also be kept separate, stored, collected, transported and disposed of properly.

An exception to the requirement for separation is possible in individual cases, among other things, if the separation or subsequent sorting by type is not technically possible or economically unreasonable, in particular due to the small quantity.

The Commercial Waste Ordinance does not apply to waste that is subject to the statutory take-back obligation, such as batteries and packaging.

Non-recyclable waste must be handed over to the public waste disposal company, unless it has been excluded. You have to take care of the disposal of other waste yourself, as there is no obligation to tender commercial municipal waste.

For the provision of waste containers and the disposal of non-recyclable waste by the public waste disposal authorities, fees are charged in accordance with the respective fee statutes of the districts or independent cities.

Public waste disposal authorities of cities, municipalities and districts

Administrative Offences Authority: Lower Waste Management Authorities (Brandenburg)

Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Development (MLUL) of the State of Brandenburg, Department 5 - Environment, Climate Protection, Sustainability Unit 52

Hanna Grießbaum

hannajanina.griessbaum@mlul.brandenburg.de

+49 331 866-7358

Statutes of the public waste management authorities

• Commercial Waste Ordinance (GewAbfV)

A violation of the separation requirement is an administrative offense and is punishable by a fine, as is the non-use of a waste container.

The disposal of hazardous waste is subject to proof for owners, producers, collectors, transporters and disposal companies on the basis of the Closed Substance Cycle Management Act and the Verification Ordinance.

For

• holders, producers, collectors, transporters and disposers of hazardous waste, and
• waste disposal companies that treat and store waste, and
• Non-hazardous waste disposal company

there is also an obligation to register.

Further explanations on the verification procedure and the keeping of the register as well as on exceptions and restrictions are explained in the "Implementation Aids for the Verification Procedure under Waste Law - M 27".

• Implementation aids for the verification procedure under waste law - M 27

• Further information on the Commercial Waste Ordinance can be found in the implementation instructions of the Federal/State Working Group on Waste (LAGA)
• Further information on the verification procedure and the keeping of the register as well as on exceptions and restrictions are explained in the "Implementation Aids to the Waste Verification Procedure-M 27".

Ministry of Rural Development, Environment and Agriculture,

Division 5 - Environment, Climate Protection