Water supply industry
Water management

Disposal of sewage sludge from public waste water treatment, 20171

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.
Baden-Württemberg: From 2016, survey among sewage treatment plant operators; until 2015, use of an administrative source. "Direct disposal, total": higher values until 2015 because the item included the quantity of sewage sludge distributed to sewage treatment plants located in other Länder. Limited comparability with previous surveys conducted until 2015.
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.
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.

- = No figures or magnitude zero.

Germany1,713,185311,905171,63332,620478,493648,10863,5556,871
Baden-
Württemberg		215,7791,5684,383- 42,655150,07516,368730
Bayern280,30030,76846,6221,95985,800108,6695,905577
Berlin52,604- - - 52,604- - -
Brandenburg71,4589,58313,8171,237- 46,574247-
Bremen17,303606102- 3,28013,315- -
Hamburg49,670- - - 49,670- - -
Hessen142,77538,13114,6112,67151,08630,1596,117-
Mecklenburg-
Vorpommern		29,34418,4892,5724718626,950- -
Niedersachsen147,33173,37814,3878,5814,63642,2082,0962,045
Nordrhein-
Westfalen		380,19632,1795,1263,788156,013156,61626,474-
Rheinland-
Pfalz		76,41642,8391,0513,0508,11621,32832-
Saarland18,6412,1407,656- - 8,845- -
Sachsen74,81011,10524,0634,6501,66930,4182,905-
Sachsen-
Anhalt		53,43211,05016,5973,7049,4069,0732043,398
Schleswig-
Holstein		64,81333,6373,0071,59112,69610,5543,207121
Thüringen38,3136,43217,639918- 13,324- -

As at 02 July 2019