Press release No. 546 of 19 December 2022
- For the first time more than 40 million tonnes of household waste
- Per capita volume of waste up by 6 kilograms to 483 kilograms
- Markedly more biowaste and bulky waste per capita, less recyclables and residual waste
WIESBADEN – The volume of waste produced by households in Germany continued to rise in 2021. 483 kilograms of household waste per capita were collected according to provisional data from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This was an increase by 6 kilograms compared with the first Covid year of 2020, when the per capita waste production had risen by 19 kilograms from 2019 (2019: 457 kilograms). A total of 40.2 million tonnes of waste were collected from households in 2021, which is roughly 1.5% or 0.6 million tonnes more than a year earlier. Household waste generation thus rose to the highest level since the survey started in 2004.
More information:
Detailed data, also by Land, are available in table 32121 “Amount of domestic wastes generated” of the GENESIS-Online database.
