Overview
- The BSR, which confirmed Wednesday it will add 80 district‑selected playgrounds, starts the expanded cleaning on June 1.
- The state coalition approved an extra €6 million on an SPD proposal to fund about 50 new hires and 15 vehicles for the rollout.
- BSR crews already clean 135 playgrounds daily, and the addition lifts the total to roughly 215 in a city with about 1,900 sites.
- BSR chief Stephanie Otto says teams adjust visits to how dirty a site is and notes data do not show Berlin has grown dirtier even as concern has risen.
- Leaders cite litter such as coffee cups, packaging, cigarette butts and syringes as the safety concern, with Steffen Krach pitching the shift to ease district workloads and serve the city’s roughly 600,000 children.