"Symbol of the pandemic": Nuremberg "flooded" with pizza boxes - is a deposit obligation coming soon?

In the corona pandemic, many people use urban parks.

Pizza boxes are clogging the trash cans more and more often.

Is there a deposit for pizza boxes now?

• Cities are sounding the alarm: they are groaning under the flood of pizza boxes and rubbish in urban parks.

• Parks are used intensively, especially in the corona pandemic.

• At the municipal level, there is a demand for a deposit for pizza boxes.

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Nuremberg - Public parks have been used particularly intensively since the Corona * pandemic.

Many people picnic there in the open air.

This often includes

- transported in a bulky cardboard box.

These clog the trash cans or pile up next to them.

Many municipalities are sounding the

, because

they have to spend

every year to

dispose of packaging and plastic waste from

and the environment

.

Nuremberg sounds the alarm: the amount of garbage increases sharply in Corona times

The

"has become a symbol of the increase in

in the Corona * time," said the city of Nuremberg, for example.

In the city's green spaces, there was a significant increase in

waste

during the pandemic

- in addition to pizza

, especially

and bottles.

Similar complaints recently came from Hamburg and Magdeburg.

According to a nationwide study, packaging and plastic waste recently made up almost half of all street garbage, also because of the abundance of to-go packaging.

Because they often take decades to decompose, single-use products and plastic-containing packaging are particularly harmful to the environment.

Against this background,

(SPD) recently emphasized that she wanted to ask the distributors of such packaging to pay more for the collection and recycling of waste.

Approval comes from the German Association of Towns and Municipalities and the German Association of Cities.

Flood of rubbish in Corona time: "The alternative must be reusable"

However, according to Schulze, the redistribution of costs is

not

enough to protect the

.

Even simply replacing plastic with cardboard packaging is not expedient: “The alternative must be reusable,” demanded the minister.

The

(DUH) specifically calls for a binding reusable quota.

At the municipal level, there is a demand for a

boxes and other to-go packaging.

This promises clear relief when cleaning public spaces, according to the city of Nuremberg *.

"There should be a uniform regulation for all cities and municipalities," says Third Mayor

(SPD).

A change to the Packaging Act and the expansion of a deposit obligation beyond bottles would be a matter for the

federal government.

As of today, the public barbecue areas in # Nuremberg have been released again.

Please note the still applicable contact restriction and keep the minimum distance of 1.5 meters.

Celebrating in parks and green spaces is prohibited.

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- City of Nuremberg (@nuernberg_de) September 2, 2020

Corona: Pizza boxes are stacked in parks - the pizza maker is concerned

However, the Federal Environment Ministry does not consider this to be sensible.

Particularly in the

there are hygienic objections due to the often heavy soiling of the containers, says a ministry spokesman.

Antonio Furnari, a pizza maker from Greven, considers a deposit regulation to be hygienically questionable.

“It's less appetizing because there is always food residue in the boxes.” He also has a

: “I think that a

deposit scheme

would bring fewer customers.” The takeaway and delivery business is primarily a convenience factor.

Corona pandemic in Bavaria: pizza boxes are stacked in parks - is reusable packaging coming?

The idea of

is basically interesting, but difficult to implement, says the pizza maker: "You have to think about the material." Cardboard is short-lived and can

soften

through

.

In the end, the restaurateurs were left with the disposal of the packaging materials.

Unfortunately, boxes can't be made more foldable, says Furnari, because the boxes need a certain basic stability.

That is why the tried and tested format cannot be changed so easily.

"However, the boxes can be taken apart again in two or three steps and are more space-saving."

Ecological packaging for pizza: "If the price is right ..."

One observes ecological advances in the

with interest despite deposit skepticism, says Furnari.

For example, a company that manufactures napkins recently developed a biodegradable

- but such packaging materials are still

simply too expensive

for

.

“A lot still needs to happen in this regard.

If the

, we will be happy to help convert to such boxes. "

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