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  • Article from 25.03.2024 | Last changed: 10.10.2025

    TFA as degradation product of fluorinated greenhouse gases

    A hand holding a glas of water

    … titled "Type, environmental concentrations, and fate with particular regard to new halogenated substitutes with low global warming potential"  commissioned by the … TFA in the environment (2023) Article: TFA in trees (2022) Report on TFA from new fluorinated refrigerants (2022) Article: TFA as a persistent degradation product …

  • Article from 15.05.2024 | Last changed: 08.11.2024

    The Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement

    H.E. Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, COP28 President and other participants onstage during the Closing Plenary at the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 at Expo City Dubai on December 13, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

    … change. The GST decision formulates specific efforts, such as the tripling of renewable energy capacity and doubling of energy efficiency, both by 2030, and … of the Global Stocktake is key in informing Parties in the preparation of their new NDCs, which are due in 2025. Leveraging the echo of the Global Stocktake In …

  • Article from 20.07.2020 | Last changed: 27.07.2020

    Electrical and electronic waste

    Old televisions and computer monitors on a pile.

    … the retailer is obliged to take back the old device, if the customer is buying a new equivalent type (1:1 take back). The same rules apply to long distance retailers … chromium, polybromated biphenyls (PBB) and polybromated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) in new electrical and electronic devices. Recycling Upon being returned, electrical and …

  • Article from 06.06.2019 | Last changed: 13.02.2025

    Batteries

    Batteries of different size and color

    … batteries. The law places restrictions on the use of mercury and cadmium in new batteries. Batteries should never be disposed of with household waste. Source: … batteries. The law places restrictions on the use of mercury and cadmium in new batteries. … Batteries contain substances that make it crucial for them to be …

  • Article from 22.01.2014 | Last changed: 03.11.2020

    End-of-life-vehicles

    Pressed old cars in a junkyard

    … cobalt and lithium. Recycling for most of these critical materials, as well as new lightweight materials such as carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP), has been … this in turn saves energy and raw materials that would otherwise be used to make new cars. Moreover, affordably priced cars enable people to get around more easily …

  • Article from 19.10.2017 | Last changed: 26.02.2018

    Plastics

    nach Farben sortiertes Plastikgranulat

    … Plastics Plastic granules, which are made of plastic waste, are used to make new plastic products Source: digitalstock / Fotolia.com Certain types of products … is planned in accordance with the Law on Closed Cycle Management (KrWG). Under this new regime packaging and other plastic and metal product waste will presumably be …

  • Article from 07.01.2020 | Last changed: 09.01.2020

    Packaging

    Yellow bags of packaging waste

    … After being collected in containers glass, jars and bottles are melted down to make new jars and bottles. Transport packaging such as palettes, boxes and barrels are … The German regulation was harmonized with the EU directive by an enactment of a new version of the packaging ordinance in 1998. Since then, the Packaging Ordinance …

  • Article from 08.05.2014 | Last changed: 28.04.2022

    Waste regulations

    Golden paragraph mark surrounded by grey and white paragraph sign

    … the law still applies solely to moveable property. The law contains a new provision concerning the distinction between waste on one hand, and byproducts … requirements; the substance not being an environmental or health hazard The new provision as to when a given product or substance is no longer regarded as waste …

  • Article from 10.08.2021 | Last changed: 28.01.2025

    Non-extractable residues in persistence assessment

    … the workshop and answered by UBA and the project partners can be found in our FAQ . New approaches for consideration of NER in persistence assessment Beside the …

  • Article from 27.09.2016 | Last changed: 27.09.2016

    Waste statistics

    huge stacks of paper and two blue waste paper bins

    … the EU in general, in that they allow for the evaluation of current rules and for new environmental policy decisions to be made. last update on 27.09.2016 Statistical … the EU in general, in that they allow for the evaluation of current rules and for new environmental policy decisions to be made. … The compiling, processing and …