Register the incineration of plant waste

• You register the burning informally or using the online service at least two working days in advance with your local public order office.
• You do not have to wait for a confirmation.
   

The public order offices are responsible.

• Burning must be carried out under the constant supervision of a reliable person in dry weather.
• Burning is permitted from Monday to Friday from 8.00-16.00 and on Saturdays from 8.00-12.00.
• The straw or vegetable waste must be dry so that as little smoke as possible is produced.
• You must not use any additional substances (e.g. spirits or fire accelerants).
• You must be able to keep the fire under control at all times and in the event of strong winds or increased smoke development, you must extinguish the fire immediately.
• Before leaving, you must ensure that the fire and embers are completely extinguished. You must work the residue into the soil immediately.

The following minimum distances must be observed:

• 100 m from buildings, tents or campsites
• 35 m from other buildings
• 5 m to the property boundary
• 100 m from
  • Federal motorways and motorway-type trunk roads
  • for storage with flammable liquids or pressurised gases
  • to establishments in which explosive substances are manufactured, processed or stored
• 50 m from other public transport routes
• 100 m from nature reserves, forests, moors and heaths
• 20 m from tree avenues, groups of trees, individual trees, protected plantings, natural monuments and unharvested crop fields

Burning within a radius of

• 4 km around the runway reference point of commercial airports or
• 3 km around the runway reference point of airfields, special landing sites and gliding sites

is only permitted with the approval of the local air traffic control centres or air traffic controllers.

If there are flammable objects or plants within the minimum distances, you must create a 5 metre wide safety strip by ploughing around them.

When burning straw on harvested grain fields, the following also applies:

• There must be at least two reliable supervisors on site.
• You must create a 5 metre wide safety strip around the area to be burned by ploughing or milling.
• Contiguous areas over 3 hectares must be divided by safety strips 5 metres wide at intervals of 80-100 metres.
  • You may only burn the partial areas created in this way one after the other, i.e. after the previous partial area has been extinguished.

When burning forestry waste in the forest, the following also applies:

• Burning is only permitted from Monday to Friday from 8.00 am to 4.00 pm. Burning is not permitted when there is an increased risk of forest fires.
• As far as possible, you must stack the waste for incineration in mounds or piles in places where there is no risk of forest fires.
• When burning, you must ensure that the fire can be kept under control at all times.
• You must ensure that the smoke development does not cause any impairment of the surrounding road traffic, no dangerous flying sparks and no major nuisance to the general public.
• You must keep the area around the fire free of flammable or highly flammable objects with a width of approximately one metre and cover it with earth or extinguish it with water in good time before the fire is finally extinguished.

• Notification of the place and period of incineration
• Description of the location and size of the site where the waste is to be incinerated
• Description of the type and quantity of waste
• Details of the supervisors (names, ages and addresses)

• § Section 3 (5) of the Ordinance on the Disposal of Plant Waste Outside of Waste Disposal Facilities (PflAbfV HE)
• § Section 3 (7) of the Closed Substance Cycle Waste Management Act (KrWG)

In individual cases, the lower water authority may authorise exceptions to the disposal of plant waste if this is not detrimental to the public good.

• Notification of the incineration of plant waste generated on agricultural or horticultural land Acceptance
• The burning of vegetable waste on the property on which it is produced or of straw on harvested fields must be registered with the public order office at least two working days in advance.
• Prerequisites:
  • Vegetable waste must be dry and may only be burnt under the constant supervision of at least one reliable person (two if burning straw) and in dry weather.
  • Burning is permitted from Monday to Friday from 8.00-16.00 and on Saturdays from 8.00-12.00.
  • No additional substances (e.g. spirits or fire accelerants) may be used.
  • Minimum distances must be maintained from buildings, campsites, property boundaries, motorways, warehouses, businesses, other public transport routes, nature reserves, forests, moors and heaths, tree avenues, groups of trees, individual trees, protected plantings, natural monuments and unharvested crop fields.
  • Burning in the vicinity of the runway reference point of special landing sites and glider airfields is only permitted with the consent of the local air traffic control centres or air traffic controllers.
• The burning of forestry waste in the forest is only permitted from Monday to Friday from 8.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. if this is necessary for forestry reasons.
• If there is an increased risk of forest fires, burning is not permitted.
• Responsible: Public order offices
   

Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (HMUKLV)

• Notification of the incineration of plant waste generated on agricultural or horticultural land Acceptance in Hesse

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