Bundesweite Gewerbeabfalluntersuchung Gekuerzte Fassung. Schlussbericht

Industrial and commercial enterprises, administration facilities and service companies generate waste that is jointly disposed with household refuse. This waste from all kinds of work places is similar to household refuse. It is collected both together with, as well as separately from household refuse. Usually a difference is made between industrial, commercial and institutional (IC and I) waste, collected with household refuse, and IC and I waste, similar to household refuse, but collected separately. Until now there were only incomplete data about quantity and composition, above all because available statistics did not include all work places in a district or because waste quantities were not recorded separately from other municipal wastes. Aim of the nation-wide industrial, commercial and institutional waste study (Bundesweite Gewerbeabfalluntersuchung- BWGU) was to determine quantity, composition and statistical characteristics of both kinds of IC and I waste. In 15 German districts (all belonging to the 'former' Federal Republic of Germany, meaning prior to German reunification in 1989) IC and I waste was inspected or sorted and compared, according to trade sector and size (number of employees) of the work places. The study was rounded off by a thorough questionnaire of the work places analysed and by an evaluation of the 1987 national work place census. The resulting statistical characteristics describe the waste quantity, the waste composition and the densities of the waste fractions, according to trade sector clusters (formed by cluster analysis on the basis of a three-digit trade key). With these values waste calculations for the whole of (former) Germany were carried out. (orig.)SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: RN 8422(1994,68) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekBundesministerium fuer Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit, Bonn (Germany)DEGerman