Private individuals in the city of Aachen can deliver recyclable waste in normal household quantities to the city's recycling centers free of charge.
Note: Upon request, the deliverer must prove that the waste producer comes from the area of the city of Aachen (presentation of identity card). Please also note that the hazardous waste collection point at the Aachen Eilendorf recycling center is open to all citizens of the Aachen city region, but the recycling center itself may only be used by Aachen citizens.
This is accepted
- Paper and cardboard packaging (including packaging with a green dot)
- Filled yellow bags
- Old clothes (wearable clothing)
- mineral building rubble (except pumice stone, plasterboard, lightweight building blocks) (max. 0.5m³)
- Scrap metal
- Flat glass
- Hollow glass (brown, green, white glass)
- Waste wood max. (0.5m³)
- Green waste (max. 1m³)
- Small electrical and electronic appliances, televisions and monitors
Note: large electrical appliances (washing machines, dryers, etc.) and refrigerators are not accepted. Large electrical appliances are collected free of charge after registration - alone or with other bulky items. To register - Bulky goods (max. 5 parts)
- Cork
- CDs/DVDs
Pollutants
Hazardous waste can be handed in at the Eilendorf recycling center or at the mobile hazardous waste collection point.
What you need to bear in mind
The recycling yards only accept material in normal household quantities and only from citizens of the city of Aachen.
"Normal household quantities" means, for example, 1/2 cubic meter per month for wood and building rubble and 1 cubic meter per month for garden waste. For bulky items, acceptance is limited to five small items.
Only unmixed and recyclable material is accepted.
The trained recycling center staff is entitled to reject deliveries that do not meet the requirements in terms of origin, type or quantity.
Delivery authorization
Do you have waste that needs to be taken to the recycling center, but cannot take it away yourself?
In this case, you can authorize acquaintances or relatives to dispose of your waste at the recycling center by issuing a delivery permit, even if they do not come from Aachen or live there.
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