The houses in Oberursel currently have three rubbish bins:

• Blue for paper
• Yellow for packaging (“Grüner Punkt”) – although some houses do not have a bin and just put out the sacks
• Green or black for everything else (“Restmüll)

Additionally there are glass collection containers and a recycling depot where electrical goods (“Elektroschrott”) and building materials (“Bauschutt”) get taken to.  And then of course there is the special Christmas Tree collection each January.

Soon another collection will be added to the list as the “Biotonne” is introduced for things like food leftovers, fruit peel, dead flowers and other garden waste.

But just how do you introduce a new rubbish collection to a town like Oberursel? [Read more…]