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Within this work a method how to analyze the recycling sites in Rostock and the surrounding municipalities is presented. The approach is embedded into the project Prosper-Ro and is part of the development of a decision support system for planning purposes in the mentioned region. The recycling sites are one part of the project and in focus to tackle the challenge of transforming the linear economy to a circular economy. To make the method easy adoptable, it incorporates free available data, like Open Street Map and governmental data, such as ALKIS, to derive a high resolution dataset for the population density as well as the potential waste. This leads to an easy adoptable approach for other municipalities. With Open Street Map and QGIS routing software QNEAT it was possible to create reachability areas for each recycling site in respect to the customer and waste potential. These data lead to a parameter of 250 customers per 1 m 2 of container area in the city area of Rostock which is useful for planning new sites or extending the existing ones. The derived data could be verified by the help of a survey, which shows that the customers in Rostock are mostly satisfied with their recycling sites and want to improve the transformation to an circular economy, for instance by the reuse of electrical devices.