"The procedure brings advantages for all parties involved in the implementation of the transitional solution," stated District Administrator Dietmar Allgaier at the AUT meeting. This transitional solution is necessary because the VRS will not have its own landfill site for the waste under its responsibility until the current end of the transfer of the disposal obligation on December 31, 2024. The district committees have therefore formulated the expectation that the other urban and rural districts in the association area with disposal capacities will also make their landfills available to a greater extent than before until a VRS landfill goes into operation.
Other urban and rural districts make additional disposal capacities available
In fact, the waste management company of the city of Stuttgart (AWS) has offered to increase the VRS disposal volumes from approx. 50,000 tons to up to 60,000 tons per year. The Rems-Murr district and its waste management company AWRM (Abfallwirtschaft Rems-Murr) have offered to accept mineral waste generated in the Rems-Murr district at the Backnang-Steinbach landfill. Due to the imminent surface sealing of the Eichholz landfill in Winnenden, substantial quantities of so-called landfill class I waste could also flow into the scheme in future as landfill substitute construction materials. In addition, AVL is stepping up its efforts to recycle waste with a corresponding potential and to landfill only the residual portion that actually needs to be disposed of. All measures will conserve AVL's landfill capacities.
VRS has begun searching for landfill sites
In the meantime, the VRS, with the significant involvement of AVL, has defined the first concrete steps and a binding timeline for its association-wide search for landfill sites and has begun to implement them. First of all, it has commissioned a volume and demand forecast. The forecast, which should be available by November 2024, is required as the basis for justifying the plan to build a new landfill site. At the same time, the VRS has initiated a tendering process for the implementation of an association-wide landfill site search. For this purpose, an expert opinion will be prepared in two blocks (criteria catalog and actual site search), which must be submitted by the end of 2025.
