No more illegal rubbish dumping: the district of Erding has hired a detective agency to monitor the container sites.
The model is the city of Ebersberg.
Erding - The Landratsamt Erding declares war on garbage sinners.
A detective agency is now monitoring the container sites in the district - initially in a three-month trial run.
For example, inconsiderate contemporaries who simply unload their rubbish next to the containers - mostly outside of the drop-in times and on weekends - should be held responsible.
In the city of Ebersberg, this surveillance has been in place for years - with success.
Last year alone, the district of Erding had to pay 156,000 euros for the disposal of improperly deposited rubbish at container sites - including cleaning it.
The costs are financed from the garbage fee budget and thus borne by the general public.
In the corona pandemic with lockdown, home office and the temporary closure of retail stores, the amount of waste has generally increased - also due to packaging waste as well as clearing out and renovations at home.
Claudia Fiebrandt-Kirmeyer, spokeswoman for the district office, explains that there was 15 percent more bulky waste and scrap wood, building rubble and problem waste in the past year compared to 2019.
The detective agency that the district of Erding has now commissioned is also in use in the municipality of Poing (district of Ebersberg).
According to Fiebrandt-Kirmeyer, the surveillance takes place by means of photo documentation on one or two days a week, "and only if an actual administrative offense is observed on site".
Other disposal companies are therefore not photographed.
The main areas of application are the container areas at Kletthamer Feld and at the Dorfener Volksfestplatz.
That is where most of the illegal deposits are found.
But locations in smaller places would also be checked, the spokeswoman said.
The focus is on protecting residents from noise pollution and minimizing unauthorized deposits. These are classified as administrative offenses and punished with a fine. In 2019, the district office had issued fines and warnings in the amount of 2,000 euros, in 2020 it was around 2,700 euros.
The example of Ebersberg shows that the use of a detective agency is worthwhile. The city has had its containers monitored in this way for ten years and has been able to reduce the amount of illegally dumped garbage and the costs of cleaning its disposal islands, as clerk Agnes Lang explains. Since 2000, a good 2000 violations have been reported. 1500 of them were punished with a warning, almost 300 with a fine. "We have already had fines in thousands of amounts," says Lang, for example for fiberglass and insulation material, which are classified as dangerous to the environment and the public.
In Ebersberg, the detective agency works 250 hours a year.
Unlike in the Erding district, the waste disposal companies' vehicles are even filmed there.
"The detective picks up the license plate and documents the garbage on video," says Lang.
The material of those who dispose of in accordance with the rules will be deleted immediately.
In the district of Erding, the detective will take photos of the license plates.
"Permanent video surveillance on public container sites is legally difficult, since personal rights and data protection are high legal interests," emphasizes Fiebrandt-Kirmeyer.