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  • Landing page from 09.09.2024

    Important Environmental Indicators

    The following overview shows the key environmental indicators of the German Environment Agency. These indicators are particularly relevant for German and international environmental policy. Click on the images to view the indicators.

  • Article from 05.04.2022 | Last changed: 13.01.2023

    Legal Basis

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  • Article from 23.03.2021 | Last changed: 23.03.2021

    Environmental law

    The statue of Justitia

    … environmental media and substances (pollution control law, water law, soil protection law, waste law, chemicals law) make up the core of environmental … into the law governing specific sectors (for example, energy, agriculture, mining, building or planning) which does not have environmental protection as its original regulatory purpose. The UBA …

  • Article from 18.11.2025 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    Greenhouse gas-neutral administrations: Empowering professionals

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    … administrations’ direct climate footprint. Besides administrations’ credibility and function as role model, it is also about the purchasing power of the public sector … administrations’ direct climate footprint. Besides administrations’ credibility and function as role model, it is also about the purchasing power of the public sector …

  • Article from 15.06.2023 | Last changed: 07.08.2023

    Campaign for a sustainable rat management (KaRMa)

    Don't feed rats

    … aims to reduce food availability in parks, playgrounds and sewers, so that rats do not even start to settle in the city. As a consequence, less rat poison has to be … birdseed in the park, overflowing trash cans, and food leftovers being flushed down the toilet into the sewer are the most typical sources of food for rats and … public relations Next Previous caption Associated content Links Pest control and building protection in municipalities (German) Rodenticides (German) Biocide Portal …

  • Article from 05.04.2016 | Last changed: 05.04.2016

    Landfill

    Leafy landfill, fenced

    … usually by extracting energy from it. Filled landfill sections are covered so as to avoid methane emissions, keep precipitation out of the landfill and minimize … of untenable landfill sites substantially reduced environmental loads on the soil, groundwater, and atmosphere and worked to the benefit of human health and the …

  • Article from 22.04.2016 | Last changed: 22.04.2016

    Organic-waste treatment

    A yellow wheel loader implements composting in a composting plant.

    … make for an ideal organic fertilizer for agricultural purposes, and also promote soil humus content stabilization or improvement. However, to achieve this it is … container (bio bin) at their disposal, while the remaining 54 percent cannot or do not wish to collect organic waste separately. Expanding Germany’s organic waste … input; monitoring; limits on the allowable amounts of compost/digestate used on soil. In the interest of facilitating quality assessments of compost produced at …

  • Article from 01.09.2023 | Last changed: 11.12.2023

    PARC – Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals

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    … in compiling the necessary data and findings, thus providing risk managers with essential information for decision-making processes. Another priority objective is … development of a sustainable and long-term human-biomonitoring-system in Europe, building on HBM4EU. Furthermore, based on new concepts and data on exposure, the … of 50 percent. The 27 EU member states, as well as the United Kingdom and Switzerland, are involved in the partnership with varying levels of funding, whereby …

  • Article from 07.01.2020 | Last changed: 08.11.2024

    Waste collection and transport

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    … and 1.1 cubic meter containers that are used in settings such as large apartment buildings. Information as to which types of waste can be deposited in which type of … be drained, dismantled and recovered in an environmentally sound manner, so as to avoid direct environmental harm and allow for the recovery of recyclables. These …

  • Article from 17.03.2014 | Last changed: 17.03.2014

    Waste disposal

    A backhoe pushes together the waste of the waste landfill

    … on 17.03.2014 The main goal of intelligent, state of the art waste management is to do minimal harm to the environment while deriving the greatest possible recovery … energy, to which end it is transformed into biogas through fermentation. Hazardous waste is handled using specific disposal methods that allow for extirpation or … contained in these materials. Depending on the nature and properties of the hazardous waste in question, it needs to be treated in either hazardous-waste …