Entsorgungsverband Saar

What Entsorgungsverband Saar does

Entsorgungsverband Saar (EVS) is a public-law municipal association (Zweckverband) headquartered in Saarbrücken, Germany, established under German public law to provide municipal waste management and wastewater treatment services across the entire Saarland federal state. EVS holds the exclusive statutory mandate to operate all 136 municipal wastewater treatment plants in Saarland and to manage household and commercial waste collection for all 52 member municipalities, effectively making it the sole provider of municipal sewage treatment and the dominant waste-management operator in the state. Its service portfolio is organized around three pillars: waste collection and disposal (scheduled curbside collection, Wertstoff-Zentren recycling centers, Deponien landfills, the Kompostwerk Ormesheim composting plant, AVA Velsen waste processing facility, and the BioMasseZentrum); municipal wastewater treatment (136 Kläranlagen, the Kanalnetz sewer network, and Regenwasserbehandlung rainwater systems); and supporting quality and digital services (the in-house EVS-Labor, the Abfall-App, Formular-Service, and waste prevention platforms including Einfachwenigermüll.de, Verschenk-Heisje, and Verschenkmarkt).

The underlying technology is centered on physical infrastructure rather than software platforms: physical wastewater treatment plants, composting and biomass processing facilities, landfills, and a network of drop-off centers supplemented by the Ökomobil mobile collection service. EVS also participates in four funded research projects (AMELAG, EmiSûre, CoMinGreat, ESI-CorA) on wastewater epidemiology, trace substance detection, and micropollutants, and conducts applied R&D on Abwasserwärme (wastewater heat recovery) and landfill gas heat recovery.

Revenue is generated through three recurring streams: Abfallgebühren (waste fees) charged to households and businesses for collection and disposal; Einheitlicher Verbandsbeitrag, a unified wastewater contribution paid by the 52 member municipalities; and usage-based fees at Wertstoff-Zentren for bulky and special waste drop-off. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is set through member-municipality agreements. Customers comprise all Saarland households, commercial and industrial businesses, and the 52 member municipalities, with no private-sector competition for core services. EVS is one of the largest public-sector contracting entities (Auftraggeber) in Saarland and runs public awareness campaigns including 'Ein Herz für die Tonne' (biowaste) and 'Saarland picobello' (litter collection). As a public-law Zweckverband, EVS is owned and controlled by its member municipalities rather than private shareholders; no parent company, subsidiaries, funding rounds, or M&A activity were identified in the available data.

Name

Entsorgungsverband Saar

Legal name

Entsorgungsverband Saar

Website

https://entsorgungsverband.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

EVS is a public-law municipal association (Zweckverband) that holds the exclusive mandate to operate all 136 municipal wastewater treatment plants and provide waste management services across the Saarland federal state in Germany, serving all 52 member municipalities plus regional households and businesses.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Municipal Waste Management and Wastewater Treatment

NAICS

Solid Waste Collection (562111), Sewage Treatment Facilities (221320)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953), Sanitary Services (4950), Electric, Gas & Sanitary Services (4900)

akta.pro primary industry

Solid Waste & Recycling Services Administration (BPAIACAH)

Keywords

• Municipal waste management
• Wastewater treatment services
• Recycling center operations
• Sewage treatment infrastructure
• Household waste collection

Headquarters

HQ city

Saarbrücken

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Abfallgebühren (Waste Fees): Fees charged to households and businesses for waste collection and disposal services. Includes charges for residual waste, organic waste, yellow bin recycling, and special waste collection.
2. Einheitlicher Verbandsbeitrag (Unified Association Contribution): Wastewater fees charged to member municipalities for sewage treatment and infrastructure maintenance. This is a standardized fee system for all members of the association.
3. EVS Wertstoff-Zentren Services: Drop-off services at recycling centers for various waste types including bulky waste, electronics, glass, paper, and green waste.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

EVS Entsorgungsverband Saar is a public-law municipal association that provides comprehensive waste management and wastewater treatment services across the German federal state of Saarland. The core offering covers curbside household waste collection (residual waste, organic waste, paper, yellow bin recyclables, glass), drop-off and processing at Wertstoff-Zentren recycling centers, EVS Deponien landfills, the Kompostwerk Ormesheim composting plant, the AVA Velsen waste processing facility, and the EVS BioMasseZentrum, as well as operation of all 136 municipal Kläranlagen (wastewater treatment plants), the regional Kanalnetz (sewer network), and Regenwasserbehandlung (rainwater treatment) infrastructure.

Product overview

EVS Entsorgungsverband Saar operates as a public-sector waste management and wastewater treatment association providing comprehensive environmental services across the entire Saarland region. The offering consists of a multi-service portfolio organized around three core pillars: waste collection and disposal services (including the Abfall-App mobile application, collection scheduling, and waste fees management); waste processing infrastructure (comprising EVS Wertstoff-Zentren recycling centers, EVS Deponien landfills, Kompostwerk Ormesheim composting plant, AVA Velsen facility, and EVS BioMasseZentrum biomass center); and municipal wastewater treatment (operating all 136 communal Kläranlagen treatment plants, Kanalnetz sewer networks, and Regenwasserbehandlung rainwater systems). Supporting services include the EVS-Labor quality monitoring laboratory, digital Formular-Service, and various waste prevention platforms such as Einfachwenigermüll.de, Verschenk-Heisje, and Verschenkmarkt. The organization also conducts environmental research (Abwassermonitoring, Abwasserwärme) and runs public awareness campaigns including Saarland picobello and Ein Herz für die Tonne.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Municipal Waste Collection (Abfallabfuhr)

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Abfallwirtschaftsbetrieb München (AWM): Munich's municipal waste management operator running collection, recycling centers, and a large residual-waste treatment facility — comparable in scale, public ownership, and full-service portfolio to EVS.
• Berliner Stadtreinigungsbetriebe (BSR): Berlin's municipal waste management and street-cleaning public entity, operating a comparable state/city-wide collection, recycling, and bulky-waste infrastructure with similar public-sector mandate and citizen-service model.
• Münchner Stadtentwässerung: Munich's municipal wastewater utility operating large-scale sewage treatment under public ownership — directly comparable to EVS's Kläranlagen-Betrieb pillar and centralized sewer network model.
• Hamburg Wasser: Hamburg's municipal water and wastewater company operating sewage treatment plants and network infrastructure under public ownership — directly mirrors EVS's wastewater treatment mandate and centralized operating model.
• Stadtreinigung Hamburg: Hamburg's municipal waste management public company, providing household and commercial waste collection, recycling, and hazardous-waste services — structurally and operationally comparable to EVS's waste pillar.
• Zweckverband Abfallwirtschaft Region Aachen (ZAW): Regional Zweckverband providing waste management services to multiple municipalities in the Aachen region — shares EVS's exact legal form (Zweckverband under public law) and member-municipality governance structure.

Broad incumbents

• SUEZ Recycling and Recovery Deutschland: German operations of SUEZ providing recycling, waste collection, and material-recovery services — a broad incumbent with overlapping municipal and commercial offerings that benchmarks EVS's recycling-center strategy.
• REMONDIS: Germany's largest privately operated waste and recycling company with nationwide collection, sorting, and treatment infrastructure — competes for adjacent commercial/industrial waste volumes and provides a benchmark for private-sector efficiency in EVS's served market.
• Veolia Deutschland: German arm of the global Veolia group operating water and waste management services including municipal contracts — comparable as a broad incumbent offering the same wastewater and waste-treatment capabilities EVS provides in-house.
• PreZero Deutschland (Schwarz Group): German environmental services provider (part of the Schwarz Group) operating waste collection, sorting, and recycling infrastructure nationwide — competes for commercial volumes in EVS's geography and represents a benchmark for integrated recycling economics.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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