Zero Waste » Commune De Contern
STRATEGY « ZERO WASTE » COMMUNE DE CONTERN #FÄNKVIRUN Waste reduction - a major challenge Since the opening of the recycling centre in Munsbach the grey bin (rubbish bin for residual waste). For the in May 1998, the SIAS has always endeavoured to contents of the grey bin there is in fact only one last encourage residents to make the best use of their solution, namely incineration. resources, to prevent them from being disposed of in Development of waste volumes Before presenting the future measures, it is interesting to analyse the data of the last years on the collection of household waste in the 4 municipalities of Contern, Niederanven, Sandweiler, Schuttrange (hereafter called Residual waste SIAS municipalities). Figure 1 shows the historical Waste that is produced in the development of household waste incinerated per year household by its inhabitants in their normal and per inhabitant. daily lives and is not recycled. It is remarkable that in recent years we have been able to reduce the amount of residual waste by an average However, as the population has increased by more than of 25. 8 kg/inhabitant to 140 kg (-16%) per inhabitant 14% over the same period, there has been no significant per year, which clearly shows that awareness has been decrease in incinerated waste in absolute terms over the raised and that the measures taken so far have had a last decade (see Figure 1). measurable effect. 2 610 t 2 580 t 2 557 t 2 548 t 2 551 t 2 545 t 2 507 t 2 533 t 2 518 t KG , KG/P/YEAR t KG/P/YEAR KG / PERSON / YEAR 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 INCINERATED WASTE IN SIAS MUNICIPALIES Img.
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