… (87.6%), and steel (92.2%), there is a lot of potential to be tapped in plastics (49.7%) and wood (25.8%). The recycling rate for aluminium of 87.2 percent …

… goes for recycling rather than incineration. In 2019, around 58.5 per cent of plastic packaging was recycled – a good 50 per cent more than in the previous year. … effect makes an important contribution to combating climate change. Every tonne of plastic that is recycled as a raw material saves about two tonnes of CO2. When … and reduce the need for raw materials," says Dirk Messner. The European Single-Use Plastics Directive now requires the use of recycled material in disposable PET …

… Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety Significantly lower levels of mercury and lead, more plasticisers Flasbarth: Human and environmental specimen banks are indispensable … exposure to certain plasticisers being used on a broad basis in the production of plastics, where chemicals about which too little is known are involved, often as a …

… metal packaging participating in the systems went into recycling. 60.6 percent of plastic packaging was recycled. "A very large proportion of our packaging is … unnecessary. The European Union should also introduce minimum contents of recycled plastics from waste after use for packaging throughout the EU and crack down on …

… Source: SoilPaparazzi / AdobeStock International Conference Microplastics in Soils Presentations Conference Programm Microplastics in soils – a threat for human health and the environment? This conference … at the  Neue Mälzerei, Friedenstraße 91, D-10249 Berlin, Germany Programme (pdf) … International Conference Microplastics in Soils - Start …

… During the dismantling of ELVs before shredding, an average of 3 kilograms of plastic parts per ELV were separated for recycling. This confirms a positive trend: … this figure still falls far short of the target of an average of 20 kilograms of plastic per vehicle defined by UBA for the dismantling of ELVs. The statistical gap … Tags End of Life Vehicles Directive end-of-life vehicle illegal waste disposal plastics recycling recovery rate waste recycling recycling rate … In Germany, some …

… pollutants such as heavy metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and plasticisers in plastics or solvents. UBA President Maria Krautzberger said: "Anyone born in Germany … had not been traceable in the human organism up to now: substitutes for reprotoxic plasticisers or solvents." Associated content Links more information about the …

… is a risk of bottlenecks occurring in recycling capacities for the fibre-reinforced plastics in the rotor blades and risks for man and the environment if dismantling is … is a risk of bottlenecks occurring in recycling capacities for the fibre-reinforced plastics in the rotor blades and risks for man and the environment if dismantling is …