It is with great regret that those responsible at the Ludwigsburg District Office and the district's waste recycling company AVL have noted the growing number of complaints regarding the delivery of garbage cans for the new recyclables collection system.
AVL and the district administration are currently receiving an increasing number of complaints from citizens who, for example, share bins with neighbors and are now having several 240-litre garbage cans with yellow lids placed on their doorstep in addition to their previous 1,100-litre flat bins. The long transition period between garbage can delivery and collection of the RUND garbage cans, especially in areas with limited space such as city centers, is also an issue.
"The problems are highly annoying for people in the district," confirms AVL Managing Director Tilman Hepperle. This is all the more true because the difficulties appear to be largely avoidable - and neither AVL nor the district administration office are in any way responsible for them. Responsibility for exchanging garbage cans, collecting, sorting and recycling packaging lies with the dual systems and their contracted disposal companies. "We therefore emphatically reject any claims that the district or AVL have anything to do with these deliveries," confirms District Administrator Dietmar Allgaier, who is Chairman of the AVL Supervisory Board. "The fact is that AVL and the district administration are doing everything they can - and far more than they have to - to ensure that the system changeover goes as smoothly as possible," adds AVL Managing Director Hepperle. Unfortunately, with the new Packaging Act, the federal government has decided to leave the municipal, public waste disposal companies completely out of the loop when it comes to the collection and recycling of glass and packaging materials and to leave responsibility for the disposal of packaging to the private waste disposal industry, i.e. the dual systems. The dual system Interseroh is responsible for the district of Ludwigsburg. "In the past, we have strongly advocated that the public waste disposal companies be given a chance here," says District Administrator Allgaier, referring to the "Gemini" initiative. Unfortunately without success.
It is now becoming painfully clear how accurate the demands of the Gemini initiative were - especially because the municipal, public waste disposal companies know the local conditions best and because their focus is not just on maximizing profits, but on providing a service for citizens. "We do everything we can to support the companies tasked with exchanging the garbage cans and always point out problems," says Tilman Hepperle, "but unfortunately we have no control over this matter."
Info: Complaints about the new recycling collection system are accepted at www.verpackungsabfall-lb.de - or by telephone on 0800/5893854
