You can throw the garden waste into the organic waste garbage can.

Or you can take the garden waste to a collection point for garden waste.

You can also recycle garden waste on your own property.

For example:

• You leave the garden waste lying around.
• Dig in the garden waste.
• Plow in the garden waste.
• You make compost from the garden waste.

You are allowed to do this on your own property.

You don't need a permit for this.

The cities and districts are responsible.

These include

• the city of Cuxhaven
• the city of Göttingen
• the city of Lüneburg
• the waste disposal companies of Lüneburg
• the Zweck-Verband Abfall-Wirtschaft Celle and Hildesheim
• the Hanover region
• the municipal institutions under public law in Goslar
• the Heide district
• Lüneburg
• Nienburg
• Peine

Garden waste from the garden must not simply be thrown away.

The garden waste must be recycled.

This means: you must be able to make good use of the garden waste.

Sometimes you can burn the garden waste.

But only if it is very important.

The disposal of garden waste from private households is the responsibility of the districts and independent cities. Regulations on this are laid down in the individual waste disposal statutes and fee statutes.
These include information on waste fees, waste containers (organic waste garbage cans, ordering options), waste calendars (collection intervals), existing collection and delivery systems for garden waste.
If the public waste disposal authorities do not yet offer an organic waste garbage can, there are alternative disposal options in the bring system (such as the possibility of handing in garden waste at recycling centers or container services) and in some cases the use of an organic waste garbage can from private providers (commercial or non-profit collection).
In addition to the disposal of garden waste in the organic waste garbage can, most bylaws mention home composting as an option for recycling garden waste. If it can be proven that they can recycle their own waste by composting it on their own property, citizens can be exempted from the obligation to connect to the organic waste garbage can.
The separate collection and subsequent recycling of garden waste has several advantages for the environment: it reduces the amount of residual waste and simplifies the treatment of residual waste. Separate collection simplifies the high-quality recycling of garden waste and enables the use of the humus components and nutrients it contains.