Press release No. 479 of 12 December 2019
WIESBADEN – In 2018, the quantity of incinerated sewage sludge from municipal waste water treatment plants in Germany increased by roughly 100,000 tonnes to 1.3 million tonnes. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was an increase of approximately 9% on the previous year. Consequently, 74% of the disposed sewage sludge was incinerated.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Dry matter of sewage sludge disposed of directly from waste water treatment plants (32214-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database
