After amendment of the law

Tool for municipalities to combat landfill proliferation

Time and again, landfill sites are moving closer to residential areas, such as here in Reith im Alpbachtal.(Bild: LUA)

Although hundreds of excavated soil landfills are already in operation in Tyrol, new ones are constantly being added. An amendment to the law now gives municipalities more power. The Tyrolean Environmental Ombudsman explains which ones. 

Much-discussed and criticized landfill procedures are currently underway in Scharnitz, Mötz, Mieming, Reutte, Schwoich and Angerberg - among many others, as the Environmental Ombudsman's Office reports: "In Reutte in particular, local residents are very active and a petition with more than 1,000 signatories has already been launched. In Scharnitz, the situation has also come to a head, with the population and municipal leadership expressly speaking out against it. In Mieming, we as the Environmental Ombudsman's Office have filed an appeal or lodged a complaint with the Provincial Administrative Court of Tyrol and the proceedings are ongoing," Walter Tschon lists.