WE ARE We have prepared a few surprises for you in this brochure. All you need to do is:

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(Test by holding your phone over the marker.) WE ARE BERLIN And it would be inconceivable to think of the city without us. We are as much part of the city as the Currywurst or Döner, the or , the big mouths and even bigger hearts of Berlin natives. That’s why we love our city. And why we apply ourselves day and night. We simply can’t help ourselves. After all, we are BSR. We are Berlin. Berliner Stadtreinigung – Germany’s largest municipal disposal company

Getting the very best results for Berlin and its people: this is the force that motivates us every day. We have been providing our core business – professional collection, recovery and disposal of Berlin’s municipal waste and comprehensive street cleaning, including winter road maintenance – for more than 140 years. Reliably, economically and efficiently.

890 km² area of responsibility. We ensure clean streets, traffic routes which are free of snow and ice, and well-maintained spaces.

4 About us 400,000 51,005 t Christmas trees collected rubbish swept up and processed as fuel and disposed of

136,700 t 6 million organic waste recovered waste bins emptied

2.66 million 36,838 t customers visited our bulky waste accepted 15 recycling centres

155,728 t 1.24 million t recyclable materials and waste municipal waste submitted to our recycling centres recovered

1.5 million 5,000 km kilometres swept every year cleared on every winter road clearance job

5,409 employees (as at reporting date), making us one of the leading waste management companies in Europe. In Germany, we are the biggest municipal disposal company.

About us 5 Hungry for Berlin

Berlin: a city like a huge festive buffet. We assert these rights for ourselves. After all, wherever we are, it is not There is something for everyone. No And we do our best to claim them. only cleaner. Residents of Berlin wonder our city is visited every year Even behind the scenes where we are and visitors to our city also feel safer by millions of people from all over the permitted to keep some particularly there – without their liberties being world. And they can’t miss us: we are popular sights clean. And because curtailed in any manner. This stands busy at all times and everywhere. we’re so good at that and manage at our city of freedom in good stead. Because we want to present our city a reasonable cost, numerous parks from its cleanest side. Because and green spaces have also been put our city, its inhabitants and visitors in our care. are worth it.

6 Growing Tourism Tourism figures for Berlin

Year Visitors Overnight stays 2017 12,966,300 31,150,100 2016 12,731,600 31,067,800 2015 12,369,300 30,250,100 2014 11,871,300 28,688,700 2006 7,077,275 15,910,372 1996 3,272,888 7,519,751

Source: Berlin-Brandenburg Statistics Office; last revised: February 2017

Growing Tourism 7 German Technology Museum Good morning, this is your captain speaking …

Head in the clouds? Us? Definitely And lo and behold: the areas for which not! We have our feet firmly planted on we are now responsible are gleaming, the ground. Unless of course we are for which we have received a great involved in pilot projects. In which deal of praise from the media and the case we’re given an additional boost. general public. The Senate was equally Like in our pilot projects cleaning impressed with our performance parks and woods, commissioned by and awarded us the contract to clean the Berlin Senate in 2016. Enabling us another 35 parks, green spaces and to take twelve parks, green spaces playgrounds. Because it knows that and a huge wooded area under our things get done on our watch – and wing. A novelty: as they did not lie in always reliably. our area of responsibility before that.

8 Cleaning parks and woods Since July 2015 Since June 2016 in Teufelssee Forest in twelve Berlin parks

6,200 155,000 waste bins emptied waste bins emptied

240 m³ 6,700 m³ waste collected and disposed of waste collected and disposed of

Cleaning parks and woods 9 There’s always a party somewhere

Whether New Year’s Eve at the For example, our annual cleaning And we are delighted to clear the way. Brandenburg Gate or Christopher sprees on New Year’s Day are practi- We’re just not very good at being party Street Day: Berlin is Germany’s cally legendary. The early hours of poopers. undisputed party capital. Which makes the new year see us pouring onto us happy. And not only because we the streets to get our city back into like to party and swing our hips. But shipshape. Starting off where things also because we always have the may have gotten a bit heated. Then opportunity after such major events in the places which saw less action. to show what we’re capable of. And Everything is spick and span again that’s quite a lot. in no time. After all, there’s always a party on somewhere in Berlin.

10 Cleaning at major events References n New Year’s cleaning after the New Year’s Eve party at the Brandenburg Gate n Myfest Kreuzberg n Christopher Street Day n Ecumenical Church Congress (a week long, throughout Berlin) n Children’s and youth festival in the Olympic Park n World Children’s Day at n IAAF Athletics World Championship

Cleaning at major events 11 Awesome

A good way to describe the Berlin But we’re not that picky. We don’t up their sleeves and are a dab hand at club scene. And why not? There’s refuse anyone. Not even Berlin’s emptying the approx. 480,000 waste plenty on offer. Once you manage waste – in fact, we collect every single bins across the city. to get past the bouncers. They don’t bit of it. This is ensured by our waste mind refusing the odd would-be collection workforce of almost 1,500. party-goer entry. “Not tonight, sun- By the way, they have never been shine.” All that prettying up gone to refused entry anywhere. Because waste. they always have a few magic moves

12 Waste management n approx. 1,500 employees n approx. 400 vehicles n approx. 354,000 containers for household and commercial waste n approx. 18.5 million bins emptied/year n approx. 27,600 containers for recyclable materials n approx. 900,000 million containers emptied/year n approx. 95,500 containers for organic waste incl. leaves and garden waste n approx. 3.5 million containers emptied/year n 15 recycling depots with 6 special waste collection points

Waste management 13 Berlin Radio Tower 50 years of colour, power and heat

Berlin has always been a setting for This was truly groundbreaking as it In fact, so much of it as to supply innovations. Particularly in 1967 which provided reliable disposal services in around 60,000 households with envi- not only saw students protesting isolated West Berlin. And because it ronmentally-friendly energy, protecting against the grey post-war years. Colour was one of the first plants in Germany not only the environment but also the television also arrived in Germany to rely on the principle of cogeneration. wallets of Berlin’s residents. After all, with the International Broadcasting To date, we generate a lot of hot air we use the energy production profits Exhibition in Berlin. We were responsi- from the approx. 550,000 tonnes of to keep our rates steady over the long ble for another (technical) revolution: residual waste incurred every year in term. And raw materials such as copper commissioning our waste-to-energy Berlin and convert it into watts in a extracted from residual waste is sold plant in the Berlin suburb of Ruhleben. neighbouring power plant: i.e. “green” for this purpose. electricity and sustainable heat.

14 50 years of waste-to-enery Roofing ceremony at the waste-to-energy plant

1964 250 vehicles Cornerstone ceremony head for the plant on a given work day

1967 11,000 tonnes of waste Commissioning are delivered per week

2008–2012 650 GWh district heat New construction 190 GWh electricity of line A gained per year

50 years of waste-to-enery 15 Botanic Gardens We’re revving up against the greenhouse effect

Sausage trees are not normally indige- Stepping on the gas, in fact. Literally. A clean circuit which not only protects nous to Berlin – except in the large With Berlin’s organic waste from the atmosphere but also the wallets of tropical greenhouse in the Botanic which we generate clean biogas in our Berlin’s residents. After all, our biogas Gardens. And we think they should own fermentation plant in Ruhleben, enables us to save on purchasing stay there. After all, our city is not which is exemplary throughout Ger- 2.5 million litres of diesel a year. This really suited to a tropical climate. But many. We then use this gas to power is money which we can directly offset this is only one of many reasons why half of our 300 waste collection against waste collection fees. We even we have long been doing everything vehicles – climate-neutrally and profit from the fermentation residue, we can to fight the greenhouse effect carbon-free. which we sell to farmers as fertiliser. and global warming.

16 Biogas plant Biogas plant

69,000 t of organic waste processed as biogas for our waste collection fleet.

9,000 t of CO₂ emissions are avoided annually which corresponds with the average annual emissions by 3,000 mid-segment cars

60% of Berlin’s residential waste and biowaste are therefore collected more quietly, climate-neutrally and carbon-free

Biogas plant 17 Couldn’t get any greener? With us, it could!

Climate protection? No problem! that’s why we want to relieve our goal. And because we know that it’s Evidence is provided by the two atmosphere by a further 69,000 worth it, not only for the environment. climate protection agreements we tonnes CO₂ until 2025. After all, “green” technologies and concluded with the state of Berlin solutions are often the more economi- in 2007 and whose ambitious goals These savings calculations are based cal and efficient choice. And they we have been significantly able to on 2015, a year in which we (over-)ful- help us to keep our rates steady. exceed. But it goes without saying filled two ambitious agreements. So Something which should even make that we’re not resting on our laurels. we have no reason to be worried. As those climate sceptics happy. We are BSR, after all, which means we already have the requisite expertise we always go the extra mile: and and innovative strength to achieve this

18 Climate Targets exceeded 1st environmental protection 2nd environmental protection 3rd environmental protection agreement agreement agreement Term 2006 to 2010 Term 2011 to 2015 Term 2017 to 2025 Target: –121,000 t CO₂ Target: –113,500 t CO₂ Target: –67,000 t CO₂ Achieved: –130,000 t CO₂ Achieved: –137,000 t CO₂ Exceeded: 9,000 t CO₂ Exceeded: 23,500 t CO₂

Climate 19 Molecule Man Everything flowing smoothly

We have lots of positive energy – and When it comes to protecting the In an effort to promote the energy we’re delighted to pass it on. For environment, our vehicles take pole revolution on the streets, we have also example, in the form of our fleet which position throughout the city. And we been stepping on the gas for several is one of the most environmentally-­ are even accelerating our goals: by years. In every sense of the word. friendly in Berlin. 60% of our fleet 2019, we want to convert 95% of As many as half of our 300 waste comprising almost 130 small vehicles our small vehicles to purely e-drives. collection trucks are already powered are already powered by “green” Which could be supplemented by by climate-neutral biogas which we drives. Thanks to plug-in hybrids scooters, bikes and even sweepers generate in our own modern fermen- and e-vehicles, we have been able with e-drives. We are currently testing tation plant for organic waste. The to reduce our CO₂ emissions by a these models for their suitability for other half is clean, too: thanks to en- whopping 66% since 2009. daily use. gines complying with the Euro-5 or Euro-6 standard.

20 E-mobility 23 20 new hybrid vehicles new e-vehicles purchased in 2016

2017 saw a share of 60% alternative green drives in the BSR vehicle pool. We plan to increase this share to 95% for 2019.

E-mobility 21 Marking the course of the Overcoming barriers

We don’t just simply get rid of waste. input height, facilitates waste disposal Most recently, for example, in an We also want to increase the quality of and is above all barrier-free. architectural competition in which life enjoyed by Berlin’s residents we searched for quirky ideas for inno- which encourages us to come up with Just one of tonnes of ideas showing vative collection bin locations. Why is new and exciting ideas. And we would that bins are not merely receptacles that? Because we can then reposition not be BSR if we didn’t come up for waste but actually offer plenty bins so often relegated to second-rate with some unusal ideas such as our of scope for new ideas. In an effort to locations in gloomy corners and show “arc32” bin holder. Standard 240-litre further exploit this scope, we are just what they are capable of: lots of bins can be hung from this rail with a always willing to collaborate with other valuable stuff worth highlighting. 32° forward incline. This lowers the companies or creative minds.

22 Products and innovations More than just waste removal and cleaning Products, services and innovations offered by us: n Barrier-free arc32 waste containers n Bins for grass cuttings and garden waste n Barter and exchange market, free online used goods sales n Paperless electronic invoicing n Underground containers

Products and innovations 23 Pedestrian underpass at Berlin International Congress Centre Underground treasures

Simply sweeping waste under the Above ground, they are easily recog- playgrounds or bicycle stands, for carpet is not our thing. But trans­ nisable by their waist-high columns. example. They upgrade any waste porting it below ground is. To this aim, What’s more, they look good and storage location and therefore the we free up space for other things also solve the problem of flying refuse. residential environment around it. with our underground systems. The Thanks to their low input height, Clear advantages of which news has containers integrated in the ground children or people with disabilities can gotten around in Berlin: since joining comprise up to five cubic metres of easily dispose of their rubbish without our product portfolio three years household waste, paper, glass or other having to overcome any barriers. ago, we have installed several hundred recycling materials, thereby replacing Underground containers also free underground systems throughout five conventional 1,000-litre bins. up lots of space above ground, for the city.

24 Underground containers Emptying underground containers

Underground facilities offer many advantages n Save up to two-thirds space n Convenient and barrier-free operation n Can be opened using house keys n Reduced odour

Example of a classic waste storage location 75 m² Underground system 25 m²

Underground containers 25 Holi Festival Orange but still colourful

Berlin is colourful. Thanks in part to Simply because we are part of Berlin Berlin as a major city undergoing us. As we inject some colour into and Berlin is colourful. And because continuous change and with several the city. With our orange outfits. And we know that teams comprising men million inhabitants. even more than that with our 5,400 and women, people of various origins, employees. After all, they are just old and young, are more likely to as colourful and diverse as Berlin – see beyond the garden gate and be by way of their various nationalities, receptive for new ideas. And that is religions, opinions and lifestyles. We exactly what we need and Berlin regard promotion of this diversity as a needs it, too: in order to constantly very important task. come up with new solutions for

26 Social responsibility Employees from 30 countries

We have been certified as an attractive employer by the “berufundfamilie” audit since 2008 and in November 2009, we signed the Diversity Charter for more diversity in employment.

Social responsibility 27 Victory Column Worth its weight in gold

That’s how vocational training in our a very detailed look at us before more than just a job. We offer respon- companies can be described. At least, presenting this award. And what sibility, perspectives, variety and a that’s what we say. And our junior they found was not only good but team spirit from the very first day on. employees say it, too. But it’s also excellent! In five technical and three commercial certified by the Berlin Chamber of vocations as well as three dual courses Industry and Commerce which has Excellent means it doesn’t get any of study which we offer in co-operation awarded us its coveted “Excellent better. And our junior employees with the Berlin School of Economics training organisation” seal of quality. say the same. After all, those who and Law. And they should know as they took complete their training with us find

28 Training Training and dual courses of study at BSR:

Vocational training Dual courses of study n Mechatronics technican n Dual course of study in n Professional driver Information Systems, B.Sc. n Specialist in the hospitality n Dual course of study in industry Industry, B.A. n Industrial mechanic n Dual course of study in n Auto mechanic for utility vehicles Informatics, B.Sc. n Industrial clerk n Office manager n IT officer

12/2017 – 12/2019

Training 29 Imprint

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