Water supply industry
Water management

Disposal of sewage sludge from public waste water treatment, 20151

Land
.....
country as a whole

Direct se­wage
sludge dis­posal, total
Of which
material recyclingthermal disposalother direct
disposal5
in agri­culture2in land­scaping
mea­sures3
other ma­teri­al re­cyc­ling4mono-
in­ci­ne­ra­tion
co-
in­ci­nera­tion
un­known
tonnes of dry matter6
1: Includes sewage sludge quantities received from other waste water treatment plants, excludes quantities transferred to other waste water treatment plants.
The Regional allocation is based on the location of the waste water treatment plant.
2: Pursuant to the German Sewage Sludge Ordinance (AbfKlärV); sewage sludge recovered in the same Land or in other Länder according to report for the EU Commission.
3: For instance recultivation, composting.
4: For instance building materials, humification, fermentation.
5: This includes quantities transferred to drying plants where the further disposal is unknown.
6: Dry matter refers to the sewage sludge without water content.
. = Numerical value unknown or not to be disclosed.
- = No figures or magnitude zero.
Germany1,803,087427,736190,12733,547432,516446,871269,2922,998
Baden-
Württemberg
234,8612,3767,3901,646. . 223,449-
Bayern283,65839,38355,6082,15481,75199,4825,092188
Berlin53,068- - - 53,068- - -
Brandenburg76,12514,61913,9901,42915844,852191886
Bremen20,3985,4171,142- 4,4949,345- -
Hamburg50,480- - - 50,480- - -
Hessen151,76950,77114,2212,77555,04921,3577,596-
Mecklenburg-
Vorpommern
32,77422,1662,3141,4821866,626- -
Niedersachsen143,08880,93816,2448,3863,45333,951- 116
Nordrhein-
Westfalen
404,05360,7487,7622,780154,790149,84928,124-
Rheinland-
Pfalz
90,41760,6338012,7546,08820,07368-
Saarland18,8786,6045,236- - 7,038- -
Sachsen74,9088,83128,1134,2303,50229,970262-
Sachsen-
Anhalt
57,21716,37017,9604,4219,5076,1491,6391,171
Schleswig-
Holstein
72,71250,2392118999,9907,8652,871637
Thüringen38,6818,64119,135591- 10,314- -

As at 12 December 2016