"We take the concerns and criticisms that have arisen among the population and the public
seriously," emphasizes District Administrator Dietmar Allgaier. The search for a new landfill site
should therefore be suspended for the time being. Together with the AVL supervisory board
, the district wants to enter into a more in-depth dialog with potential site municipalities.
"The key message is that we are still at a very early stage in the search for a site,"
emphasizes the district administrator. The days of presenting the public with finished projects or concepts under the guise of
transparency are over. From the very beginning,
it was AVL's declared aim to make the site search as open and comprehensible
as possible. "This also includes us all working together to make the question transparent
as to whether and where a landfill site
would be conceivable based on the engineering investigations carried out - and where not," said the district administrator. It is also still unclear how
the quantities of waste for which the Verband Region Stuttgart
is actually responsible will be dealt with in future, i.e. quantities of waste that are deposited in the district of Ludwigsburg but which
are generated outside the district. For the district administrator, one thing is clear: "The district of Ludwigsburg
is not the region's waste container". Should the district council decide against continuing to landfill these
quantities in the district of Ludwigsburg after the end of 2024, then
it would have to be clarified what impact this would have on the district's search for a site and the landfill concept
. This would first require discussions with the Verband Region
Stuttgart and the Stuttgart Regional Council.
"In an unprecedented show of strength, AVL has publicly informed all municipalities that would be affected by a possible
landfill site," points out District Administrator Allgaier. It is
completely normal for questions, supposed contradictions and quite justified
points of criticism to arise. "These must now be dealt with as objectively and soberly as possible,"
says Allgaier. Once again, the district administrator is calling for the - completely understandable - emotions
to be put aside as far as possible and for the technical aspects to be considered instead.
The district and AVL are now entering into an in-depth dialog with the Verband Region Stuttgart and
the Stuttgart Regional Council in order to coordinate the waste management framework
- in particular the question of the extent to which the region should start its own search for a landfill site for the waste in
its own responsibility. "We have provided transparent information
. Questions have arisen that we now need to clarify. I therefore
think it is right to suspend the search for a site until further notice," said the district administrator.
