In Neunkirchen, Saarland, the employees at the central depot painstakingly collect 300 tons of illegal waste every year in parks, on public paths and squares, at recycling containers in the city forest and on roadsides.
The spectrum ranges from cigarette butts to building rubble, household waste, old tires and complete home furnishings. Illegal disposal of household waste in public wastebaskets has also increased significantly. Temporary storage and transport of the illegally disposed waste for professional disposal costs the taxpayers of the district town of Neunkirchen more than 60.000 euros a year, plus labor costs of almost 380.000 euros.
In order to get the problem under control, the ZBN has set up a hotline: on (0 68 21) 20 26 78, from Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 19 p.m., uncontrolled dumping of rubbish in the city area can be reported.
Source: saarbruecker-zeitung.de
