Kochel - Garbage cans overflow in Kochel: The problem was dealt with at the latest municipal council meeting.
More rubbish bins should not be bought.
The garbage problem is not new in Zweiseenland: decades ago there were pictures of garbage cans overflowing next to which more garbage piled up - especially after nice weekends.
The topic landed back on the table in the youngest municipality in Kochel.
More than 20 years ago, the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district started the “Well recovered - and your waste?” Sign campaign with caricatures by Ernst Hürlimann.
Trash sinners have still existed since then, and the Tölzer District Office continues to rely on their re-education.
On the other hand, the authorities issued a discharge for the re-erection of the once large-scale dismantled waste bins.
District Office remains hard
Kochel's mayor Thomas Holz (CSU) recently showed current photos in the local council of piles of colorful rubbish in and around litter bins - and dog toilets that have been converted into such. “We are often asked to set up rubbish bins in the Walchensee area,” he reported. The abandonment of public rubbish bins is "not an invention of the Kochel community", but goes back well over 20 years. In view of the unsightly pictures, they asked the district office at the beginning of July whether they should really stick to this approach, said Holz.
The answer from the Lower Nature Conservation Authority was: "Yes".
Area manager Franz Steger referred to the background of the action at the time to dismantle the waste bins: The appeal to visitors to take their waste from the recreation areas back home with them and dispose of recyclable materials in the recycling bins in their place of residence.
In coordination with the Weilheim State Building Authority, the rubbish bins at the parking bays on the district and federal roads in the district were also removed.
There is no educational effect
"As the Lower Nature Conservation Authority, we do not want to deviate from this approach, even if some people looking for relaxation - guests and locals alike - have not yet experienced the educational effect," the reply said. Experience has shown that isolated paper baskets are "misused" for all kinds of other rubbish and only attract more rubbish, wrote Steger. In the ongoing campaign “Nature conservation begins with you”, the topic of rubbish is therefore particularly addressed, for example through rubbish collection campaigns by the Walchensee influencer Magdalena Kahlus or a “zero rubbish tour” with the Alpine Association on the Heiglkopf.
Nevertheless, the authorities are responsible for disposing of rubbish in the protected areas on the Isar and Walchensee.
According to Steger, the nature conservation rangers always have garbage bags with them and dispose of the collected dirt in containers that are not publicly accessible or take them to landfills.
The disposal costs would be covered from the nature conservation budget or from funds for "wild garbage dumps" in the area of waste law.
Finally, the Lower Nature Conservation Authority offered to coordinate with the forest and the Walchensee communities as part of the Walchensee concept on "an adjustment of the number of garbage containers to be set up and other necessary measures" and also to involve the district's waste management company as a public waste disposal company.
Garbage photos on homepage
Kochel's town hall chief Holz confirmed the positive experience: “Overall, this has resulted in less rubbish, which we have to dispose of for a fee.” A certain educational effect has already occurred, even if there are still too many “unteachable people without consideration or understanding”. He is still considering whether to replace the signs, the text of which was good 20 years ago, but can be worded more “snappy” today. Markus Greiner (Young List) suggested not only showing “beautiful, pretty and great” pictures on the tourist website, but also showing trash photos as reality. Holz wants to pass on the suggestion, but pointed out that such an approach would not be fruitful in the case of the “shock images” on cigarette packets
Klaus Barthel (SPD) could not understand the "good experiences", but the pictures prove the opposite.
The new campaign makes sense, but it doesn't go away with the garbage problem, he believed.
It is illogical that you can dispose of dog piles, but not other rubbish.
In addition, people now pay parking fee plus daily health resort contribution and have a certain expectation.
Barthel referred to other municipalities that had "set up rubbish bins in large parts", but was only able to cite the Baltic Sea as a concrete example when asked by Holz.
Barthel reminded the town hall chief that it served as an example for the introduction of the daily health resort contribution.
With its vote against, the council decided not to put up any new waste bins.
Waiting for parking machines
According to Holz, however, the dismantled dog toilet near the Walchensee water rescue service, which Frank Sommerschuh (FWG) asked about, should be replaced, but with a container with a smaller hole size so that normal rubbish does not fit in.