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Specialist concepts for street cleaning Keeping the streets free of refuse and hazards Autumn leaves, loose gravel, dog mess - pollution and waste of every kind can be found on our public streets and footpaths, all year round. This makes reliable street cleaning indispensable - and not just for reasons of safety and hygiene: clean, attractive streets serve as an advertisement for a town or local community. That's why the specialist companies within the ALBA Group also offer expert street cleaning services. In towns throughout Germany, professional cleaning teams are working 24/7 to keep public

Managing and recycling electronic waste efficiently Specialists dedicated to recycling used appliances Industry and trade produce large volumes of electrical and electronic waste that cannot be disposed via regular channels. This includes a wide variety of devices, from used computers, monitors, printers and fax machines, refrigerators, freezers, air conditioning systems, light fittings, electronic tools, and devices such as drinks machines and cash dispensers. Electronic waste often contains a large amount of dangerous and harmful substances, including heavy metals like lead, cadmium and mercury

Proper disposal of human waste and sewage sludge Waste water experts in action When it comes to the vital topic of waste water disposal, there is a fundamental distinction to be drawn between the disposal of human waste and the disposal of sewage sludge. Human waste from underground collection tanks is disposed of in treatment plants, where the mechanical, biological and other methods for treating waste water produce sewage sludge. This can be grouped into three categories, depending on how much harmful material it contains - from uncontaminated to heavily contaminated. Again, a variety of disposal

What to do with used wood? Solutions for the world’s oldest raw material The specialist companies in the ALBA Group can dispose of waste wood of all kinds - from pallets, crates and furniture to window frames, fences, construction timber and railway sleepers. Many types of waste wood contain substances that can be harmful to human health and/or the environment, such as wood preservative. This type of wood must be treated as hazardous waste. Sorting wood into four categories Essentially, the disposal and recycling of wood is governed by the German Waste Wood Ordinance (Altholzverordnung). This

Specialists in event and festival waste The right waste management concept for every occasion Whether it's for trade fairs and conferences, open air concerts, street parties, weekly and Christmas markets, marathons or public viewing areas - the experts from ALBA Group have extensive experience in waste management at events and festivals of all types and sizes – just up to European Championships in the Olympic Stadium of Berlin, the Berlin Marathon (40 000 participants, one million spectators) or the Protestant Church Congress (100 000 participants). We offer a comprehensive range of services that

Collecting recyclables – closing recycling loops efficiently One-stop consumer-oriented waste management concepts A recycling container makes a key contribution to environmentally friendly waste management and efficient recycling in that it allows packaging waste and non-packaging waste made from similar materials to be collected from urban locations and disposed of together. This enables more valuable resources to be collected by material type and sent for correct recycling than with the classic "Gelbe Tonne" ("Yellow Bin"), which is only used to collect lightweight packaging from households in

Brilliant solutions for scrap steel and metal Breathing new life into old iron The scrap metal experts in the ALBA Group dispose of a wide range of used metals. In general, these can be divided into two main groups: ferrous metals such as scrap steel and foundry scrap, and non-ferrous metals consisting of materials like copper, aluminium, zinc or lead. A distinction is also drawn between new scrap derived from production waste, and old scrap arising from the demolition of factories and buildings, for example. Whatever the instance, our recycling experts can extract significant quantities of