Garbage cups in Hamburg's S-Bahne: Clean trips from 2025!

Garbage cups in Hamburg's S-Bahne: Clean trips from 2025!

Blankenese, Hamburg, Deutschland - The Hamburg S-Bahn has decided to reduce all garbage containers on their trains to improve cleanliness. From now on, passengers can only dispose of their waste at the train stations. There are currently 16 garbage containers per wagon, of which 21 wagons no longer have. By the beginning of next year, all garbage containers in the older series are to be removed, followed by the new series.

This measure aims to increase cleanliness in the S-Bahn, since overcrowded garbage containers often lead to the fact that waste remains in the trains. It was found that the amount of garbage does not increase when the wagons are on the road without a garbage container. Similar experiences from Berlin and the Hamburg subway, which have long been dispensing with garbage containers, support this approach.

Information on cleanliness at train stations

In addition to the measures in the S-Bahn, there are also reports on cleanliness at the Hamburg train stations. Travelers have repeatedly expressed concerns based on pollution, especially at the Blankenese S-Bahn station, where Tauben droppings are a problem. In order to counteract this, Deutsche Bahn is investing a high double-digit million amount annually in the cleaning of the train stations and has carried out around 3,500 missions for the pigeon fermentation at the Blankenese S-Bahn station in recent years.

Feeding birds that reinforce the dirt is prohibited according to the house rules so as not to attract pigeons. Various measures such as framework networks and wires are also used to keep the animals from the nest building. Overall, cleanliness at the train stations has improved, as the Hamburg city cleaning confirms. However, Littering remains a problem, especially at the Bergedorf train station, where students have collected around nine kilograms of cigarette button as part of an action day.

The city's cleanliness offensive, which has been operated since 2018, already shows successes, even if there are differences in different locations, such as the Reeperbahn and the Sternschanze. Travelers can actively contribute to cleanliness by properly disposing their garbage in the garbage cans provided.

For more information on the current situation of cleanliness in the Hamburg S-Bahnen, ndr . The initiative for cleanliness at train stations was also discussed by Kloenschnack .