environmental planning in freiburg

• environmental planning ensures that resources are not wasted and the environment is protected for future generations
• one of the key strategies for making cities more sustainable is to reduce the amount of waste being produced by reusing and recycling as much as possible
• environmental planning also involves the use of brownfield sites
• freiberg has more than 88% of packing waste recycled
• freiberg has 350 community collection points for recycling
• freiberg has 90kg per head of non-recyclable waste (Germanys average is 122kg)
• freiberg has more than 1 million corks recycled every year
• freiberg has a biogas digester for organic food and garden waste which is collected weekly
• freiberg has provided energy for 28000 homes from burning waste
• freiberg has reduced annual waste disposal from 140000 tons to 50000 tonnes in 12 years
• the inner city district of Vauban in Freiburg was built on the site of a former army barracks, it now houses 5500 people in low-energy buildings. all existing trees have been retained, with green spaces between the houses providing play areas for children. green roofs covered in vegetation store water, which is collected and then reused