Household Hazardous Waste is also collected from neighborhoods once a year during the month of June. The stand locations and the time the KCA collection truck is present are published on the municipal page.

Because they are hazardous substances, chemical waste should not be disposed of with residual waste. It is processed under various controlled conditions, depending on the substance.

What is allowed in

Household:

• Batteries (also to be handed in at store drop-off points)
• Energy-saving/energy-efficient bulbs and fluorescent tubes (also redeemable at in-store drop-off points)
• Liquid sink plunger
• Lamp Oil, Petroleum
• Pesticides/insecticides

Medicine Cabinet

• Medicine
• mercury thermometer
• hypodermic needles (you must provide packed in a glass jar or special tube available from pharmacies)

DIY:

• Paint, varnish, stain and wood preservatives
• products used in painting such as white spirit, thinner, paint stripper, thinner, brush cleaner, brush softener and benzene
• Mercury switches (such as non-digital heating thermostats)

Hobby:

• Photo fixer, photo developer
• Etching fluids such as nitric acid or sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid.
• Transportation:
• Batteries, gasoline, motor oil used oil, brake oil, oil filters

NOT

• Empty paint cans (= metal/can)

Bottles containing chemical liquids please close tightly!

What to do.

A kca box is provided for the collection of Household Hazardous Waste . You can pick it up at the environmental street .

How does it work?

What is Household Hazardous Waste?

Household Hazardous Waste includes batteries, energy-saving light bulbs paint, detergents and oil products, pesticides, old medicines, photographic development materials and the like.

Chemical waste from companies

Companies can only dispose of chemical waste according to the Requirements an environmental permit through their own private collection company.