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Same performance at less cost
New performance standards for vacuum cleaners become effective on 1 September 2014. The devices must consume less power and be built more robustly.
Ambitious policy for environmentally responsible world climate
Pharmaceuticals in the environment pose a global challenge
A research project on behalf of the Federal Environment Agency has shown the magnitude of the contamination of the environment by pharmaceuticals: traces of more than 630 different pharmaceutical ingredients and their degradation products have been recorded in many regions of the earth. They can be found in water, soil, sludge and organisms.
Loss of biodiversity on fields
Top marks for northern Germany’s lakes
More than half of the deep, oligotrophic lakes in Northern Germany have ‘good’ ecological status and therefore already achieve the objectives of the EU Water Framework Directive. These good reviews are cause for the Federal Environment Agency to declare them as “Water Type of the Year 2014” on the occasion of World Water Day.
Putting power gluttons on a diet
Four common power adaptors in non-stop operation can cost up to 51 euros in electricity per year. The average household of two can save 250 euros through more economical use of energy. A new brochure by the Federal Environment Agency about saving energy in the home explains how to do it without giving up any comfort.
More ecofriendliness in food sector necessary
The product life cycle analysis for foods is in a class of its own: fully one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions in Germany are traceable to the food sector. Nitrogen surpluses from agriculture contaminate groundwater, while eleven million tonnes of food are discarded and wasted every year.
Wanted: Creative ideas for ecodesign
