“There’s not been anything like it in Germany,” Sascha Hurtenbach, director of the waste management centre in Niederzissen, tells AFP, while behind him diggers work to reduce the size of the mounds of debris. “At the moment, we have about 35,000 tonnes of waste taken from the disaster zone here, and we’ve already taken the same amount to a landfill. The villages along the Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, were ravaged by the high waters and dozens of residents died. READ ALSO: UPDATE: German prosecutors consider manslaughter probe into deadly floodsAnd yet, what they have sorted so far is just the start. “For the others, we still need to empty their bins and pick up their waste as normal.”

Source: The Local August 04, 2021 07:18 UTC