Residual waste
Contains:
Waste that cannot be recovered or recycled, e.g.
● Cigarette butts, ashes
● Cat litter
● Vacuum cleaner bags
● Disposable nappies, sanitary products
● Broken china and ceramics
● Dry emulsion paints
DO NOT THROW IN:
Recyclable waste such as wearable clothing and
shoes, packaging (glassware, metal, plastic
materials, cardboard) as well as biological waste
and toxic waste.
Used paper
Contains:
● Newspapers, flyers, magazines
● Books, catalogues
● Writing paper, ad mail
● Notebooks und files
● Cardboard cases, corrugated cardboard
● Cardboard cases (folded)
● Egg cartons
● Other clean paper
DO NOT THROW IN:
Biological waste
Contains:
- Vegetable and fruit scraps
● Food waste, meat and fish (even cooked)
as well as spoilt food without packaging
● Bread and cakes/cookies scraps
● Eggshells and nutshells
● Coffee grounds and filter bags
● Tealeaves and teabags
● Leaves, hedge trimmings and grass
cuttings
● Flowers, potted plants
● Newspaper used as wrapping
DO NOT THROW IN:
Wallpaper, tissue handkerchiefs, sanitary products, Disposable nappies, cat and other pet litter,
disposable nappies, packaging (milk, juice, frozen vacuum cleaner bags, cigarette butts and
foods etc.), carbon paper, coated paper or board. ashes, packaging, residual waste, toxic waste,
bones, plastic rubbish bags.
If you do not sort your domestic waste and if
Questions?
you throw everything away in the residual
waste bin ( grey bin ), your waste removal fees
You will receive more information
In the City Hall: Tel. No.: 32089-140
Room No.: 1.08
or
www.garching.de
will go up!
Therefore, we kindly ask you to sort your waste
accordingly.