Water supply industry
Water management: Disposal of sewage sludge from biological waste water treatment, 2023

Water management: Disposal of sewage sludge from biological waste water treatment, 2023
LandSewage
sludge
disposal,
total1
Of which
utilisation on soil (matrial recycling)2thermal disposalother
disposal8
in
agri-
culture3
for
land-
scaping
mea­sures4
in humification and composting5thermal treatment6thermal co-treatment7thermal process un­known
tonnes of dry matter9
The regional allocation is based on the location of the waste water treatment plant (WWTP).
1: Includes sewage sludge quantities received from other WWTPs, excludes quantities transferred to other WWTP.
2: Pursuant to the German Sewage Sludge Ordinance (AbfKlärV), as amended.
3: Utilisation in or on soil used for agriculture.
4: For example, recultivation.
5: For example, humification, composting, also in own plants.
6: For example in sewage sludge incineration plants or via pyrolysis, or gasification, low temperature conversion (LTC) and
hydrothermal carbonisation (HTC). Quantities that are incinerated with excess oxygen, for example in fluidised bed, grate and rotary firing systems, are also included.
7: For example in power plants, cement plants, waste incineration plants.
8: This also includes quantities transferred to drying plants where further disposal is unknown.
9: Dry matter refers to the sewage sludge without water content.
- = No figures or magnitude zero.
r = The value was corrected at 23th December 2024.
Germany1,629,897r212,89912,80171,230r656,344r622,22941,861r12,533
Baden-
Württemberg
208,981497- - 56,697147,3884,399-
Bayern269,47816,9636,8985,117114,119117,5497,6061,226
Berlin47,755- - - 47,755- - -
Brandenburg67,7087,4778115,1146,17448,0228624
Bremen18,8431,126- 1,4007,2949,023- -
Hamburg41,857- - - 41,857- - -
Hessen139,66427,4709203,65779,93023,9233,764-
Mecklenburg-
Vorpommern
34,42916,690- 2,8605,5706,4991,941869
Niedersachsen156,617r48,43361023,142r22,041r51,5901,489r9,312
Nordrhein-
Westfalen
341,41614,222- 7,387165,717135,70317,861526
Rheinland-
Pfalz
77,76833,594- 2,71129,71111,393359-
Saarland16,2722,936- - 4,2489,088- -
Sachsen70,9948,3271,5864,04227,00928,877608545
Sachsen-
Anhalt
48,1698,7136545,47521,46511,862- -
Schleswig-
Holstein
58,14523,494- 30924,4548,3271,53031
Thüringen31,8012,9571,32210,0162,30312,9852,218-

As at 23 December 2024