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Paints and varnishes in Vienna: where is the official information?

According to the City of Vienna, paints and varnishes count as Problemstoffe (hazardous household waste). We deliberately give no instructions of our own on handling, storage, transport or drop-off. Please follow only the official City of Vienna information linked here.

Rules checked against wien.gv.at · data from 6 November 2026 · Sources

We do not describe paints, varnishes or other Problemstoffe (hazardous household waste) with instructions of our own. Only the official City of Vienna (MA 48) information applies.

Official information

Official information from the City of Vienna
official source only

  • What counts as Problemstoffe and how drop-off works: MA 48's Problemstoffe page (in German).
  • Locations of the Problemstoffe collection points: official locations page.
  • Dates of the mobile Problemstoffe collection: official dates page.
  • For questions: MA 48's Misttelefon (waste hotline) according to the official page, +43 1 546 48.

Source: Problemstoffe: what counts and where to take them (City of Vienna, MA 48) (in German), Problemstoffe collection points: locations (City of Vienna, MA 48) (in German), Mobile Problemstoffe collection: dates and sites (City of Vienna, MA 48) (in German)

Frequently asked questions

In Vienna, paints and varnishes count as Problemstoffe (hazardous household waste). Apartment Meister does not describe a treatment of its own. MA 48 (the City of Vienna's waste management department) describes the official route at https://www.wien.gv.at/umwelt/problemstoffe-muelltrennung (in German).

This page does not give its own instructions or its own permission on that. Only the official information from MA 48 at https://www.wien.gv.at/umwelt/problemstoffe-muelltrennung applies.

The City of Vienna publishes the sites and dates of the Problemstoffe collection on its official pages: https://www.wien.gv.at/umwelt/sondermuell-entsorgen-standorte and https://www.wien.gv.at/umwelt/sondermuell-vor-ort-entsorgen-termine (in German). For Problemstoffe we deliberately do not list any sites of our own on this page.

No. For Problemstoffe we only point to the City of Vienna's official pages. We do not invent or estimate prices.

No. It is a pointer to the official information. Binding information comes from MA 48 (the City of Vienna's waste management department).

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