How Saalbach-Hinterglemm wants to stay clean despite the big event

More than 80,000 fans Walked in the first week of the Ski World Cup about the Fan mile in Saalbach. And 80,000 fans make a lot of crap. Half a kilo of waste produces one fan on average per day. This results in a total amount of More than 40 tons of garbage.

It has certainly noticed who has walked along the village street in the past few days. The special Recycling stations. Four different colored garbage cans for easy separation of the waste.

It is also striking: Except for a few lost gloves or a ski helmet forgotten at the après-ski, you hardly see anything lying around here. In the evening, party residues are returned and collected later.

Incorrectly

The garbage cans are emptied daily with the electric waste truck. This should also make disposal as environmentally friendly as possible. If the ski fan no longer found the right garbage can for its beer can at a late hour, the AI ​​in the truck helps: using the camera, it recognizes the false throws in the waste and shows what type of material it is.

Speaking of a beer can: Not everyone picks up the cans from the evening celebrations until the supermarket locks up again by receiving deposit for the drinks. The recycling stations offer their own bucket in the fan mile, on which the friendly hint can be read that you donate 25 cents for a good cause by submitting your bottle or can.

Packaging Plastic and metal Get in sorting systems and are then used material. Paper and box are recycled in paper factories and are back on paper.

Organic waste are used as a replacement for fossil fuels as biogas. Also Glass waste are collected in a manual variety and attributed to the fabric circulation. The Residual waste gets into the thermal exploitation.

Enlightened

The company “Saubermacher”, who is responsible for the garbage as a waste disposal partner, calls it “Circular World Cup concept”. An important point is also to form awareness. All event employees were trained in advance. Fans and residents are also informed. It is an explicit goal to “strengthen awareness of sustainable values ​​in the community,” says Mayor Alois Hasenauer.