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  • Appointment from 06.09.2024

    Urban, university and school living labs to promote circularity

    … project manager at the international startup “CYRKL”. She focuses on biodegradable waste and organic materials. She specializes in transforming waste into resources using valorization technologies such as composting facilities, biogas stations, wastewater treatment plants, biodegradation processes, and sludge management. Don’t …

  • Press release 17/2021 from 13.04.2021 | Last changed: 04.05.2021

    Plastics in the environment: Transport, building sectors and agriculture are major sources

    Plastikteilchen

    … 13.04.2021 UBA ⁠President Dirk Messner said, "About 90 per cent of littered plastic waste can be eliminated through removal measures. However, the goal must be to … in the first place. Overall, the amount of carelessly discarded (littered) waste continues to rise. The national transposition of the EU Single-Use Plastics … have only been available in isolated cases, mostly in connection with littered waste and measured in quantities. The project's central goal was therefore to …

  • Appointment from 10.05.2024

    NiCE Online Seminar: Big Points for Sustainable Consumption

    … project manager at the international startup “CYRKL”. She focuses on biodegradable waste and organic materials. She specializes in transforming waste into resources using valorization technologies such as composting facilities, biogas stations, wastewater treatment plants, biodegradation processes, and sludge management. Engage …

  • Press release 47/2024 from 05.12.2024 | Last changed: 09.12.2024

    Packaging consumption decreased in 2022 and recycling rate increased slightly

    Separated packaging in the household, collected in boxes. Glass, cardboard, plastic, etc.

    … aluminium and tinplate in particular. However, there were decreases for packaging waste made of wood and glass. “The latest report shows that we are on the right track when it comes to recycling packaging waste. By 2022, Germany had already met all of the Packaging Directive's targets for … packaging. The recycling rates stated for the total volume relate to all packaging waste generated in Germany that was materially recycled within Germany or in another …

  • News from 12.10.2023 | Last changed: 20.12.2023

    New Global Framework on Chemicals adopted

    The 5th International Conference on Chemicals Management took place from 25 to 29 September 2023

    … towards a strengthened global framework for the sound management of chemicals and waste. The adoption of the new Global Framework on Chemicals (GFC) means that … roadmap towards globally sustainable handling of chemicals, including products and waste throughout the entire lifecycle. Since GFC is the successor, rather than a … vision of the new GFC can be made reality: A planet free of harm from chemicals and waste. Associated content Promocard ICCM5 Source: UNEP Links World Chemicals …

  • News from 15.01.2014 | Last changed: 10.11.2017

    More ecofriendliness in food sector necessary

    tomato in the dustbin

    … contaminate groundwater, while eleven million tonnes of food are discarded and wasted every year. The Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv) and the …

  • Cover from 12.11.2024

    International Environmental Specimen Bank Group: ESBs

    ESB map

    … 6 years from about 400 sampling locations. In 2013, the French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency (ANDRA) launched the environmental archive Écothèque in Bure … samples taken in the area of a future deep geological storage site for radioactive waste in Meuse/Haute-Marne. The aim is to provide an environmental memory of the …

  • Press release 11/2015 from 18.03.2015 | Last changed: 23.01.2017

    Salt-rich Wadden Sea: Water body type of the year 2015

    Priel

    … scheme. Press release No. 11/2015 | 18.03.2015 Nutrient loads, pollutants and waste inputs which are often excessively high are to blame for the 'moderate' to … could reduce this effect and thus enable achievement of "good" ecological status. Waste is introduced to the Wadden Sea from rivers but also by direct means, for …

  • Press release 05/2012 from 31.01.2012 | Last changed: 17.07.2013

    Future made in Germany: Germany's growth is becoming increasingly sustainable

    … period compared with 1990. Germany is also at the forefront of recovery of waste and its environmentally sound disposal: around 90 percent of construction waste and 63 percent of municipal and production waste are already being recycled. …

  • Press release 39/2015 from 03.11.2015 | Last changed: 23.01.2017

    Recycling precious and special metals: a call for coordinated action

    gold bar on a circuit board

    … of a regulation on precious and special metals which would also apply to other waste streams which are not subject to specific control and thus enable their … to the current challenges we face as a result of ever more complex products and waste:  “Recycling critical metals into high-quality products demands that we link … recycling facilities since hardly any magnetic materials are separated from waste. There is also a lack of motivation to separate because the recycling units do …