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  • Article from 28.11.2024 | Last changed: 28.11.2024

    Commercial Refrigeration

    refrigeration unit

    … 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 …

  • 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

    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 …

  • 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.

    … 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 …

  • Article from 20.07.2020 | Last changed: 27.07.2020

    Electrical and electronic waste

    Old televisions and computer monitors on a pile.

    … 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 …

  • Article from 06.06.2019 | Last changed: 13.02.2025

    Batteries

    Batteries of different size and color

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

  • Article from 22.01.2014 | Last changed: 03.11.2020

    End-of-life-vehicles

    Pressed old cars in a junkyard

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

  • Article from 19.10.2017 | Last changed: 26.02.2018

    Plastics

    nach Farben sortiertes Plastikgranulat

    … 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 …

  • Article from 07.01.2020 | Last changed: 09.01.2020

    Packaging

    Yellow bags of packaging waste

    … 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, …

  • Article from 07.01.2020 | Last changed: 07.01.2020

    Product stewardship and waste management

        Old car tires into the reeds are between grasses in the water

    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 …

  • Article from 08.05.2014 | Last changed: 28.04.2022

    Waste regulations

    Golden paragraph mark surrounded by grey and white paragraph sign

    … 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 …

  • Article from 10.08.2021 | Last changed: 28.01.2025

    Non-extractable residues in persistence assessment

    … NERs  is currently not precisely specified. NER comprise parent and transformation products of unknown extent and unknown composition Hidden hazard or a safe sink? … matrix are hidden hazards as it is possible that parent substance or transformation products are able to be mobilised again. For regulatory use, classification of … NERs  is currently not precisely specified. NER comprise parent and transformation products of unknown extent and unknown composition … NERs have many facets – …

  • Article from 16.04.2014 | Last changed: 23.04.2025

    Waste technology transfer

    CD-Cover

    … both in Germany and abroad, involves not only the transfer of technical processes, products and services, but also the transfer of knowledge concerning technical and … both in Germany and abroad, involves not only the transfer of technical processes, products and services, but also the transfer of knowledge concerning technical and …