Public-law waste management authority: biowaste digestion, composting, MBA, recycling yards and compost and soil production
Abfallwirtschaftsbetrieb des Wetteraukreises (AWB)
Friedberg · Echzell · NiddatalNew on Amplifa
The Waste Management Company and its participations
The Waste Management Company of the Wetterau District (AWB) was founded in 1994 as a municipal enterprise of the Wetterau district and performs the duties of the public-law waste management authority. Through its participation in WEAG Wetterauer Entsorgungsanlagen GmbH (HRB 1827, AG Friedberg), it operates central facilities: the Entsorgungszentrum Wetterau (EZW) in Echzell with a mechanical-biological waste treatment plant (MBA), recycling yard, waste paper transfer station and storage facility for hazardous waste, as well as the humus and soil plant in Niddatal-Ilbenstadt with composting, an upstream digestion stage and a gas storage tank. At the Niddatal site, 36,500 t of bio and green waste are processed annually; from this, certified compost, peat-free soils and biogas electricity for around 1,700 households are produced. Ten recycling yards in the district, a bin service, the hazardous waste mobile as well as waste consultation and environmental education complement the offering. Material and energy recovery of the waste generated in the district reaches almost 100 percent; the WEAG site in Echzell is certified as a specialist waste management company.
- Site
- Friedberg
- Processes
- Waste consultation and public relations, Bin service (distribution, repair of waste bins), Recycling yards (10 locations in the district), Hazardous waste mobile, Biogas/electricity generation (electricity for approx. 1,700 households), Compost and soil sales, Waste paper transfer station, Treatment of hazardous waste
- Materials
- Mechanical-biological waste treatment, Digestion, Composting, Soil production
- Certificates
- Specialist waste management company (Efb) in accordance with § 56 KrWG / EfbV, Specialist waste management company (EfbV), RAL quality mark compost
- Founded
- 1994
- Industries
- Waste management and recycling, Municipal waste disposal, Energy generation (biogas)
- 01
Collection and removal of municipal waste (weighing system)
- 02
Delivery and transfer (waste paper, residual waste)
- 03
Mechanical-biological residual waste treatment (MBA, EZW Echzell)
- 04
Digestion of biowaste with biogas and electricity generation
- 05
Composting into finished compost and soils
- 06
Marketing via recycling yards and compost and soil sales
Processes and Recovery
Mechanical-biological waste treatment
Pretreatment of residual waste at the Entsorgungszentrum Wetterau to produce recoverable materials.
Digestion
Energy utilization of biowaste; the electricity generated is fed into the grid as needed via a gas storage tank.
Composting
Conversion of bio and green waste into RAL quality-certified finished compost within about six weeks.
Soil production
Peat-free flower and grave soil as well as planting and garden soil based on green compost, bark humus and wood fibers.
Facility Locations
Friedberg
DEHeadquarters, administration and plant management (AWB/WEAG)
Echzell
DEEntsorgungszentrum Wetterau (EZW): MBA, recycling yard, waste paper transfer station, storage facility for hazardous
- Materials
- Residual waste, hazardous waste, waste paper
- Mechanical-biological waste treatment plant (MBA)
- Waste paper transfer station
- Bin center
Niddatal
DEHumus and Soil Plant Niddatal-Ilbenstadt: composting, digestion plant, gas storage tank, recycling yard, compost and
- Part weight / size
- 36,500 t/year bio and green waste
- Materials
- Bio and green waste
- Composting plant
- Digestion plant
- Gas storage tank
Products and Material Flows
Inside the production
Industries
Additional services
Reference customers
Quality and Certification
The WEAG is certified as a specialist waste management company in accordance with § 56 KrWG / EfbV by GZQ GmbH, Saarbrücken. The finished compost carries the RAL quality mark with an annual quality certificate.
| Evidence | Echzell |
|---|---|
| Specialist waste management company (EfbV) | |
| RAL quality mark compost |
History of Waste Management in the Wetterau
- Ende der
Transfer station in Echzell, waste transport by rail for landfilling in northern Hesse
- Anfang/Mitte
Expansion of separate recyclable material collection systems (glass, waste paper, biowaste, electronics, hazardous waste, packaging); introduction of the household weighing system by cities and municipalities
- 1993
Construction of the Humus and Soil Plant Niddatal-Ilbenstadt
- 1994
Foundation of the Waste Management Company as a municipal enterprise of the Wetterau district
- 1997
Decision to build the mechanical-biological waste treatment plant (MBA) in Echzell-Grund-Schwalheim; expansion into the Entsorgungszentrum Wetterau (EZW)
- 1999–2011
Cooperation with the Vogelsberg district (residual waste pretreatment in the MBA Wetterau, landfilling of residual materials in Vogelsberg)
- 2005
Commissioning of eight recycling yards in January
- 2007
Integration of a digestion stage upstream of composting in the Humus and Soil Plant
- 2008/2009
Commissioning of one additional recycling yard each (Butzbach since 2009)
- 2014
Addition of a gas storage tank; flexible electricity grid feed-in
- Heute
Ten recycling yards; recovery rate of nearly 100%; residual waste quantity approx. 100 kg per inhabitant/year after introduction of the weighing system; over 60% of citizens in the weighing system