The waste paper collectors of the Kottgeisering sports club experienced a dramatic slump in last year's collection results.
Even the popular mucking out in the Corona year couldn't change that.
A visit to the collection container next to the soccer field.
Kottgeisering -
"Many hands
- a
quick end." Every email that Waltraud Lerner from the sports club sends to the more than 20 helpers of the waste paper collection ends with this saying.
And it's actually going fast right now.
But even before 2020, when the street collections had to be canceled on the first Saturday of each month due to corona, the helpers were finished faster than they wanted on their rounds through the town.
“The free provision of the blue bin hurt us,” admits Franziska Baumgartner, who, alongside Lerner, is the second important pillar of the collection campaign.
This is just very practical because you can also dispose of cardboard boxes in it.
“We can't use them because there is significantly more money for pure waste paper than for mixed paper,” explains Waltraud Lerner.
Telephone books are missing
But there are other reasons why the collection volume in 2020 fell to 34 tonnes - less than half of what was collected in the years 2008 to 2010: There are no telephone books and no longer any long mail-order catalogs because everything is searched online now or is ordered.
The fact that people have been at home a lot for months and have time to muck out can also be seen in the material delivered: Office documents and printed matter or, in the case of correspondence that is more sensitive under data protection law, snippets of paper shredders by the bag.
Occasionally people also part with things that they have kept for forty years: Johanna Keller brings a pile of old school notebooks in which she has entered mathematical calculations or the music groups from the 1970s in the neatest calligraphy.
“It's actually too good to throw away,” says the teacher Franziska Baumgartner, who of course promptly discovers a spelling error.
Money for youth work
14 years ago the sports club took over the paper collection initiated by Marianne Bichler.
Since then, three Bulldog teams, each with three helpers, have been collecting the waste paper provided by the citizens on the roadside once a month.
Before it is tipped into a large container and then picked up by the Schongau company Drosdz every three to four months, the cords must be removed.
The sports club can achieve a low to mid four-digit amount annually with the sale.
"We use this primarily in youth work and buy gymnastics, sports and play equipment," says Waltraud Lerner.
In the meantime, word has got around that the collectors have not come by since the second Corona wave, but ask for their own delivery.
After all, 54 citizens came to the football field this Saturday.
Nevertheless, the paper collectors want to drive through the streets again at the next collection date (March 6th) in order to increase the result.
Franziska Baumgartner can then certainly increase another collection result: she fished a handful of postage stamps out of the mess of paper by noon;
She regularly forwards this to a charitable institution.
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