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Mayor Reiter: Munich will be Zero Waste City
The idea of a zero-waste city is recovering all resources from waste materials and attempting to eliminate waste whenever it is possible.
In order to achieve this aim, zero-waste cities rely on developed systems that do not produce garbage in the first place and have also discovered ways to reuse and recycle waste.
Munich, the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria, also aims to become a zero-waste city. Mayor of Munich Dieter Reiter has recently presented the new ‘Zero-Waste’ strategy.
Mayor Reiter stated on social media: ‘’Concrete waste reduction path, better communication to prevent incorrectly thrown waste, more efforts against food waste – a total of around 100 measures against the waste of resources.’’
According to Merkur.de, Munich generates more municipal waste than an average German city, at 720,000 tons annually, 43 percent of which is a residual waste. To ensure that this changes, Mayor Reiter has taken the necessary steps back in 2019.
He requested a “zero waste” concept to be created, a duty that was assigned to the waste management firm in 2020. A package with a total of 100 concrete measures has been put together two years later.
Over the next few years, the city is set to contribute 1.8 million euros to fulfill this goal. By 2035, it is planned to reduce household waste by 15% per capita, or 56 kilograms annually.
Even while societal activities have mostly been responsible for the rapid rise in climate change, reducing the amount of waste that is disposed of in landfills can help repair some of the harm.
Munich’s plan to eliminate waste can be viewed as an encouraging example of how to decrease the damage we do to the environment and promote a sustainable lifestyle. (photo credit: Sigmund/Unsplash)
