Ban on firecrackers in Peiting as a consequence of mountains of rubbish on New Year's Eve?
– "Have really raged"
Created: 01/04/2023 08:05
By: Barbara Schlotterer-Fuchs
Firecracker rubbish is piled up at the rubbish bin opposite the Lidl discounter on Münchner Straße.
© Barbara Schlotterer-Fuchs
Firecracker rubbish as far as the eye can see: it stinks for the citizens of Peiting, and it's enough for the head of town hall too: for the first time he is thinking aloud about a ban on firecrackers on New Year's Eve.
Peiting – Anyone who drives or walks through Peiting these days must realize with annoyance: Not everyone clears away their firecracker rubbish the day after New Year's Eve.
In many places in town, charred firecracker batteries, rockets and other firecracker rubbish were simply left lying around.
True to the motto: the community or the building yard will clear it up.
That stinks not only for some citizens who have already angrily turned to Mayor Peter Ostenrieder since New Year's Eve about firecracker waste.
Even the mayor himself is not very enthusiastic about the mess that has simply been left there in many nooks and crannies in town.
"I was brought up to take my stuff with me and not just let it fly," he says angrily.
"They really raged."
After firecracker mess on New Year's Eve: the mayor thinks about a ban on firecrackers
For him, the firecracker mess is due to a change in society: "Everyone only thinks of themselves." And not to the community-funded employees of the building yard, who are now busy collecting the garbage left behind.
True to the motto: "The community will fix it," says Ostenrieder.
This is where the cracker waste ends up: In the container at the building yard boss Tim Osterhaus.
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It stinks badly.
And so he thinks aloud for the first time about a possible ban on firecrackers for the entire municipal area, which has always been avoided so far.
"No one should be surprised if we in the municipal council think about a ban on fireworks on New Year's Eve." Of course, this shouldn't cause much enthusiasm among firecracker fans.
The assessment of Peiting's Bauhof boss Tim Osterhaus coincides with that of the mayor: In fact, this year more New Year's dirt was left on the streets.
"You noticed: one or the other was hungry for firecrackers."
Construction yard has to pick up garbage - not an easy task
In fact, it is not that easy for the depot employees to collect the firecracker dirt again.
Peiting does not have its own sweeper, and borrowing it is out of the question for this purpose.
No sweeper could pick up the large batteries and the long wooden rocket sticks, "they can't swallow it.
It all has to be collected by hand.”
The sparkling Valdo Prosecco certainly tasted good.
Three days after New Year's Eve, the bottle is still lying at the Peiting-Ost train station together with packaging waste.
© Barbara Schlotterer-Fuchs
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Not a nice job for the Bauhof employees.
After all, the shooting material must not be touched by hand - too dangerous.
"In theory, I have to say to all employees: stay three meters away." In practice, it looks like this: pick it up with a shovel and load it up.
All the rubbish "gets wet, and a few tons quickly accumulate," says Osterhaus.
But there are also beautiful stories about good people.
The head of the building yard knows about a note that he found with a large bag of firecracker waste at the building yard.
"The children wrote it," he says.
They had already been busy on New Year's Day and had collected and handed in strangers' rubbish.
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A few other citizens had already collected firecracker waste and parked it at the building yard or handed it in personally.
And there are also garbage bags on the garbage cans in the village, which the garbage truck can then take with it on its tour of the village on Thursday.
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