

Standards in the waste management industry usually refer to forms of organisation, logistics or disposal facilities. In international comparison, each standard in the waste management industry corresponds to the local conditions. There can be no absolute standards that are applicable to all countries and regions, but rather adapted solutions to problems associated with disposal.
Nevertheless, largely standardised offers in the disposal sector can be developed from experience and successful technical or organisational solutions. The German waste management industry and the German plant engineering and construction industry have the know-how and experience to be able to provide adequately matched waste management solutions.
Examples of applicable standards are:
| DIN 30701 2003-10 | Municipal Vehicles - General Requirements |
| DIN 30705-1 1987-09 | Suction Vehicles and High-Pressure Flushers; Vehicles for Cleaning Severs and Gullies, Vehicles for Cleaning Pits |
| DIN 30710 1990-03 | Safety Labels on Vehicles and Equipment |
| DIN 30716 2003-10 | Roller for Road Surface Cleaning Machines and Highway Maintenance Machines - Measurements |
| DIN 30720 1990-11 | Containers for Multi-Bucket System Vehicles - Measurements, Materials, Performance |
In Germany, the Municipal Services Standards Committee (NKT) at the DIN German Institute for Standardisation is responsible for national standardisation in the field of waste management and city cleaning. It sets standards taking special account of the technical and logistical aspects of the registration, collection, transport, storage, transshipment and treatment of solid and liquid wastes, as well as for road surface cleaning, highway maintenance and winter services. The specialist divisions of the NKT deal with issues such as containers, vehicles, facilities and EDP.
An ongoing NKT project is defining innovative standards for city cleaning and waste management. It aims at integrating existing, standardised system technologies into a modern information management system using the practice-oriented networking of data technology. Within the project, standard process chains have been defined, detailing process sequences in a standardised manner and identifying interfaces.
