… fresh and deep-frozen, especially foodstuffs, but also flowers and pharmaceutical products. They are installed, for example, in specialist food retailers and in … fresh and deep-frozen, especially foodstuffs, but also flowers and pharmaceutical products. They are installed, for example, in specialist food retailers and in …

… TFA as degradation product of fluorinated greenhouse gases TFA formed as a degradation product of … Source: bigfoot / Fotolia.com Fluorinated gases in the atmosphere form degradation products such as trifluoroacetic acid (TFA). TFA enters the water cycle through … means. last update on 25.03.2024 Fluorinated gases emit in the atmosphere from production, use and after use phase of refrigeration and air conditioning systems …

… transitioning to sustainable lifestyles, sustainable patterns of consumption and production along with circular economy approaches. This outcome of the Global … transitioning to sustainable lifestyles, sustainable patterns of consumption and production along with circular economy approaches. This outcome of the Global …

… collection rate in 2018 was 43.1 %. The WEEE directive and Germany’s Electrical Products Act (ElektroG) also set specific recycling and recovery rates for various … and human health are needed. The best way to conserve resources is to make durable products and avoid resource use wherever possible Unfortunately, resource … the most part disregarded in practice. Each of us can do our share by avoiding the purchase of non-essential consumer products, as this serves the cause of sustainable …

… und Elektronikaltgeräte Tags accumulator battery lithium-ion battery mercury product responsibility Battery Law … Batteries are ubiquitous nowadays and enable us …

… potential measures regarding extended producer responsibility Tags refuse shredder product responsibility … Germany has more than 40 million registered cars, which are …

… Plastic granules, which are made of plastic waste, are used to make new plastic products Source: digitalstock / Fotolia.com Certain types of products such as … tons of it household or commercial waste; the remaining 0.93 million tons were production and processing waste. The lion’s share of plastic waste (1.4 million …

… transport they are either repaired or recycled. Legal framework Packaging allows products to be transported safely from point A to point B (transport packaging) and … up recycling efforts. If packaging collection were expanded to a system including products the collected materials (plastics, metal and composites) in the same bin, …

… Product stewardship and waste management Product stewardship enables manufacturers … for any product that engenders waste, particularly when it comes to taking products back and recycling them. Such stewardship is meant to encourage …

… Kreislaufwirtschafts- und Abfallgesetz (KrW-/AbfG). Disposal of specific types of product waste (respectively end-of-life vehicles, used batteries and end-of-life … a new provision concerning the distinction between waste on one hand, and byproducts that do not fall within the scope of the law on the other (Article 4). A … substance Preprocessing exceeding the normal industry standard scope is unnecessary Production of the substance is inherent to a manufacturing process Reuse of the …