Waste management
Leipzig Waste Management Services© Mathias Bertram
Stadtreinigung Leipzig (Leipzig Waste Management Services) is a direct service organization of the City of Leipzig with 800 staff. Its services include waste management, street cleaning, and maintaining Leipzig’s green spaces.
Facts
- 17 recycling centres
- Waste collections for about 340,000 households and business customers
- Maintenance of 760 green spaces, parks and squares with a total area of 798 hectares
- Cleaning of two thirds of the road network with a total length of 1,780 km, about 1,000 km of public pavements and cycle paths, and the popular pedestrian zones in the city centre
Source: Stadtreinigung Leipzig (2016)