We stand for sustainable disposal, care and cleaning. We act responsibly and ensure cleanliness for our customers - and the associated quality of life.

We are the leading full service provider for waste disposal and surface cleaning in the Rhine-Main area. In addition to street cleaning and disposal logistics, the business activities include the operation of various disposal systems and a commercial vehicle workshop as well as traffic safety and event support.

Company history

Since the establishment in 1996 from the Office for Waste Management and City Cleaning, we have developed into the leading full service provider for waste disposal and cleaning in the Rhine-Main region. But clearing, cleaning and disposal took place much earlier in Frankfurt.

In the 19th century

The garbage becomes a communal task

1855 The city of Frankfurt gives the farmers the first orders to remove the rubbish.
1873 The municipal trucking office will start operations on April 1st. With its own fleet of vehicles, it now takes care of the collection of household and street rubbish. Horse-drawn vehicles serve as a means of transport.
1888 The city employs seven overseers, eight department heads, 108 street sweepers and 37 street guards for street cleaning.
1889 The city of Frankfurt am Main acquires the Luisenhof - later the main location of the FES.

In the 20th century

Big machines and recycling

1954 The city cleaning office becomes its own department. It uses sweepers and garbage trucks that have been converted from Wehrmacht vehicles. The Luisenhof in Frankfurt-Bornheim serves as a depot.
1965 With the new district of Nordweststadt, today's waste incineration plant (then: waste incineration plant) is being built, which is constantly being brought up to date with the latest technology.
1986 The waste paper bin will be introduced across the entire city of Frankfurt.
1988 The first nationwide, small-volume, mobile hazardous waste collection is launched.
1992 The yellow bin will be introduced across the whole of Frankfurt.
1994 The waste incineration plant is being renovated.

FES

Into the new millennium with a public-private partnership

1995 FES Frankfurter Entsorgungs- und Service GmbH (FES GmbH) is founded from the Office for Waste Management and City Cleaning.
1996 FES GmbH starts operations on January 1st.
1998 The family company REMONDIS AG & Co. KG takes over 49% of FES GmbH from the city of Frankfurt and becomes a public-private partnership (PPP). The bio-waste bin will be introduced across the whole of Frankfurt
1999 The biowaste treatment plant goes into operation.
2000 FES GmbH buys the waste transhipment facility from Rhein Main Abfall GmbH. The slag processing plant will be relocated from Frankfurt's Osthafen to the location of the Rhine-Main landfill in Flörsheim-Wicker. Flughafen Service GmbH (FSG GmbH) is founded for disposal on the premises of Frankfurt Airport.
2002 The logistics company FES Abfallmanagement und Service GmbH (FAS GmbH) is founded as a 100% subsidiary of FES GmbH.
2003 The most modern waste paper sorting plant in Europe goes into operation. The operator of the system is FES GmbH. FES GmbH takes over the majority shares in Frankfurt Fußwegreinigung Dr. Feiler and Co. oHG.
2004 The renovation of the waste incineration plant in the north-west of the city begins with ongoing operations. The plant becomes the waste incineration plant in Frankfurt am Main.
2005 The slag processing plant is being rebuilt and optimized.
2006 MHKW GmbH is founded as the operating company of the waste-to-energy plant. FES GmbH and Mainova AG are equal partners. The Frankfurt footpath cleaning Dr. Feiler und Co. oHG becomes a 100% subsidiary of FES GmbH and takes over all cleaning services and winter service in third-party business under the name FFR GmbH. The commercial waste sorting plant goes into operation in Frankfurt's Osthafen.
2008 The slag processing plant is modernized. FAS GmbH moves into its new branch at Ferdinand-Porsche-Straße 27.
2009 The FES service center moves into the new premises on Liebfrauenberg 52–54. After the renovation work has been completed, the waste-to-energy plant will be officially reopened on September 18 by Mayor Petra Roth. FFR GmbH expands its area of ​​operation to Mainz and Wiesbaden and opens a branch in Wiesbaden.
2010 FES GmbH takes over TRAPP GmbH - the specialist for file and data media destruction.
2011 The largest photovoltaic system in Hesse is being built on the former Dreieich-Buchschlag domestic waste dump. It is operated by RMS Rhein Main Solarpark GmbH, a subsidiary of FES GmbH and Stadtwerke Dreieich GmbH. One of the largest photovoltaic systems in Frankfurt is being built on the roof of the biowaste treatment plant of Rhein-Main Biokompost GmbH (RMB), as is a small wind power plant.
2012 The trunk service is being expanded to include the north recycling center in the Kalbach-Riedberg district. An internal demographic management is set up.
2013 The model test “recycling bin” starts in Frankfurt am Main. The new interim storage facility for harmful substances is put into operation. The slag processing plant is being rebuilt and expanded. It is now the most modern of its kind in Europe.
2014 The day-care center close to the company is opened on the site of the Weidenbornstrasse facility. TRAPP GmbH is dissolved and becomes FES GmbH. TRAPP is now a brand of FES. FFR GmbH expands its area of ​​operation and opens a branch in Darmstadt.
2016 FES GmbH turns 20 years old. The underground car park in Frankfurt-Heddernheim is being renovated.
2017 RMB GmbH is building a second fermenter, thereby almost doubling its capacity.
2018 Raw biogas is processed into biomethane in the RMB and fed into the gas supply network of Mainova AG. FES is the princely house for the Carnival campaign 2018/2019
2019 The cup2gether initiative hands over its reusable cup deposit system to FES. #MainBecher is launched. FES applies for funding to purchase five fully electric garbage trucks and receives € 2.35 million in return. The pilot project "weekly emptying of bio bins" starts for two years in the summer months in selected parts of the city.
2020 FES begins with the chipping of garbage cans for the citizens and introduces a container identification system for the emptying containers at commercial customers. FES retrofits all garbage trucks with electronic turning assistants. The FES workshop for commercial vehicles takes care of maintenance and repairs for external companies.