07.30.2022 – 07:00
German Association for Environmental Assist
Berlin (ot)
- In the 202 metropolitan areas contacted, additional than 2.5 billion disposable packaging and over 84,000 tons of CO2 could be saved each individual year
- DUH phone calls for greener procurement from cities, multi-way bids for community functions and one particular-way community excise obligations
- DUH calculates waste volumes and CO2 saving likely for all 202 towns contacted
German Environmental Help (DUH) has submitted official applications in 202 other cities to steer clear of single-use plastic waste and to market reusable plastic. In these metropolitan areas alone, a lot more than 2.5 billion disposable cups, lunch bins, plates and cutlery could be avoided every year. This would reduce squander by 27,000 tons and help you save 84,000 tons of CO2. DUH urges cities to choose more quickly and much more decisive action versus the flood of one-use packaging waste. As part of the “Plastic-Totally free Town” marketing campaign, DUH submitted apps to reduce one-use plastic waste in a whole of 303 metropolitan areas and 29 districts.
“Considering that the federal govt has not done more than enough in the combat from one-use waste for decades, towns in individual are essential to do a thing to counter the wave of one-use packaging. principles for events, festivals and gastronomy. In addition, can proficiently prevent one-use squander as a result of a municipal tax on use the tax case of Tübingen, the Minister of the Setting Lemke must make certain legal certainty in the municipalities. to this stop, he will have to explain that the waste prevention steps are not definitively founded in the regulation on packaging, but can also be integrated by the pursuits of the municipalities “.says federal supervisor of DUH Barbara Metz.
DUH announces that it will publish the outcomes of the queries so that it is very clear which towns are groundbreaking and which are refusing to significantly implement local weather and useful resource security.
Reusable programs stay away from squander by staying refilled numerous times, warranty less squander in community spaces and are specifically climate-pleasant. The nationwide use of reusable cups, lunch bins and tableware alone would result in yearly personal savings of approximately 800,000 tons of greenhouse gasoline CO2 in contrast to disposable. In Germany, 28,000 tons of waste from disposable sizzling drink cups and 155,000 tons of waste from disposable foods containers are produced on a yearly basis. This corresponds to roughly 320,000 disposable cups and approximately 800,000 disposable food stuff containers employed every single hour.
Track record:
In July 2022, DUH filed official apps to keep away from single-use squander in the adhering to 202 metropolitan areas:
Baden-Württemberg:
Aalen, Albstadt, Baden-Baden, Bietigheim-Bisssingen, Böblingen, Bruchsal, Esslingen am Neckar, Fellbach, Filderstadt, Friedrichshafen, Göppingen, Heidenheim an der Brenz, Heilbronn, Kirchheim unter Teck, Lahr, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Leonberg, Ludwigsburg , Offenburg, Pforzheim, Rastatt, Ravensburg, Reutlingen, Rottenburg am Neckar, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Schwäbisch Hall, Sindelfingen, Singen, Tubingen, Ulm, Villingen-Schwenningen, Waiblingen, Weinheim
Bayern:
Amberg, Ansbach, Aschaffenburg, Bayreuth, Coburg, Dachau, Freising, Fürth, Germering, Hof, Ingolstadt, Kaufbeuren, Kempten, Landshut, Memmingen, Neumarkt, Neu-Ulm, Passau, Rosenheim, Schwabach, Schweinfurt, Straubing, Weiden in der Oberpfalz
Brandenburg:
Bernau bei Berlin, Eberswalde, Falkensee, Oranienburg
Hesse:
Lousy Homburg vd Höhe, Bensheim, Dreieich, Fulda, Gießen, Hanau, Oberursel (Taunus), Offenbach am Primary, Rodgau, Wetzlar
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern:
Neubrandenburg, Stralsund, Wismar
Decrease Saxony:
Aurich, Buchholz in the northern moorland, Buxtehude, Celle, Cuxhaven, Delmenhorst, Emden, Garbsen, Gifhorn, Goslar, Göttingen, Hamelin, Hildesheim, Laatzen, Langenhagen, Lehrte, Lingen (Ems), Lüneburg, Melle, Neustadt am Rübenberge, Nordhorn, Oldenburg, Osnabrück, Peine, Salzgitter, municipality of Seevetal, Stade, Wilhelmshaven, Wolfenbüttel, Wolfsburg, Wunstorf
North Rhine-Westphalia:
Ahlen, Alsdorf, Arnsberg, Bad Oeynhausen, Terrible Salzuflen, Bergheim, Bergisch Gladbach, Bergkamen, Bocholt, Borken, Bornheim, Bottrop, Brühl, Bünde, Castrop-Rauxel, Detmold, Dinslaken, Dormagen, Dorsten, Dülmen, Erftstadt, Erkelathenz, Erkrathenz , Eschweiler, Euskirchen, Frechen, Gelsenkirchen, Grevenbroich, Gronau (Westphalia), Gummersbach, Gütersloh, Hattingen, Heinsberg, Herten, Herzogenrath, Hilden, Hückelhoven, Hürth, Ibbenbüren, Iserlohn, Kaarst, Kerpenfeld, Königswelt , Lemgo, Lüdenscheid, Lünen, Meerbusch, Menden (Sauerland), Minden, Moers, Mönchengladbach, Monheim am Rhein, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Nettetal, Neuss, Oberhausen, Paderborn, Pulheim, Ratingen, Recklinghausen, Remscheid, Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Rheine , Sankt Augustin, Schwerte, Siegburg, Siegen, Soest, Solingen, Troisdorf, Unna, Velbert, Viersen, Wesel, Willich, Witten, Wuppertal
Rhineland-Palatinate:
Undesirable Kreuznach, Kaiserslautern, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Neuwied, Pirmasens, Worms
Saar:
Homburg, Neunkirchen
Saxony:
Gorlitz, Plauen, Zwickau
Saxony-Anhalt:
Luther Wittenberg
Schleswig-Holstein:
Elmshorn, Norderstedt, Pinneberg
Thuringia:
Gotha, Nordhausen
Connections:
Press get hold of:
Barbara Metz, federal managing director
0170 7686923, [email protected]
DUH-Editing:
030 2400867-20, [email protected]
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First articles from: Deutsche Umwelthilfe eV, broadcast by news aktuell
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