Municipal Services Standards Committee
The Municipal Services Standards Committee of the German Institute for Standardization is responsible for standardisation in the field of waste management and city cleaning. It chairs a number of European standardisation committees and it issues specifications on technical and logistical aspects in waste handling, road cleaning, highway maintenance and winter service.Organization
The full title is "Normenausschuss Kommunale Technik" "im DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V". The NKT was founded on 26. November 1968 in Frankfurt on the initiative of the municipal authority associations like the "VKS im VKU" and the "BDE".
The current organization is substructured in five departements running 29 projects. There are 106 national standards and 9 recommendations created by the NKT. The NKT is member of 31 national standardization boards, 10 European standardization boards and 2 international standardization boards.- DIN 30722 on roller containers also used in containerized firefighting equipment
- DIN EN 840 on mobile waste and recycling containers
- DIN EN 12574 on stationary waste containers
