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  • Article from 18.11.2025 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    Promoting Extended Producer Responsibility in international law

    World map from green leaves

    … been increasingly discussed as a concept to solve the current waste problems for specific products. As originally introduced by Swedish economist Thomas Lindhqvist, … explore the transformative potential of EPR – in more general terms, but also in specific contexts, such as the negotations of the UN Plastics Pollution Convention. …

  • Article from 29.05.2023 | Last changed: 07.01.2026

    Information about chemicals in consumer products

    … by the Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (re-evaluation every five years). Specific labelling in order to avoid misuse of the cosmetic product has to be … categories of users to which the biocidal product is restricted information on any specific threat to the environment, particularly concerning the protection of …

  • Article from 05.04.2016 | Last changed: 05.04.2016

    Landfill

    Leafy landfill, fenced

    … is disposed of in Germany at secure landfill sites, whose landfill must exhibit specific properties, depending on landfill site class. To this end, the waste is … whether its pollutant limit values exceed those for the class of landfill site in question. This applies to all kinds of waste, whether it be inert, non-hazardous or …

  • Article from 01.09.2023 | Last changed: 11.12.2023

    PARC – Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals

    boy sitting between flowers in front of a hillside

    … pesticides and biocides, are already well studied as the toxicity data required by specific legislation are already quite extensive, while for other groups of … goal of the NH work is to process PARC results into appropriate and target audience specific information for the (expert) public communities. As part of their …

  • Article from 07.01.2020 | Last changed: 08.11.2024

    Waste collection and transport

    Three large garbage containers for waste paper and waste

    … which are also widely used for construction waste collection and transport. Specific types of systems are used to collect and transport the various types of … which are also widely used for construction waste collection and transport. Specific types of systems are used to collect and transport the various types of …

  • Article from 17.03.2014 | Last changed: 17.03.2014

    Waste disposal

    A backhoe pushes together the waste of the waste landfill

    … recycling and disposal techniques are used, depending on the nature of the waste in question and the waste management objective. last update on 17.03.2014 The main goal … is transformed into biogas through fermentation. Hazardous waste is handled using specific disposal methods that allow for extirpation or conversion of the pollutants …

  • Article from 25.08.2025 | Last changed: 25.09.2025

    Research Project „Food and Agriculture with a Future“

    The image shows a circular collage of individual photos depicting animal husbandry (chickens, pigs, cattle), a wheat field, and a plate with a vegetarian dish made from vegetables and lentils. In the center of the circle is the lettering “ErLa” (Ernährung und Landwirtschaft mit Zukunft, or “Nutrition and Agriculture with a Future”).

    … of the agricultural and food system in Germany? UBA is addressing these and other questions in the “Food and Agriculture with a Future” project and developing … of a healthy and sustainable dietary pattern in Germany. For this purpose, specific characteristics of the German food system such as growing conditions, …

  • Article from 15.04.2016 | Last changed: 15.04.2016

    Waste containing asbestos

    Construction workers in white protective suits and respirators in a corrugated asbestos roof.

    … was solely determined by the potential health risks of the materials in question, and not by the degree of risk entailed by the release of asbestos fibers … Waste List constitute hazardous wastes whose transport and disposal are subject to specific regulations. Disposal of asbestos containing waste is governed in Germany …

  • Article from 23.03.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    Resilience in the face of multiple crises

    Book blooming out of a tree

    … and let novel, integrative approaches emerge that can ideally inform future specific projects and actions. Therefore, the schedule of our event was not fully … to tensions between personal resilience and the vision of sustainability, to questions of resilience in the educational sector. 1 Scharmer, O. (2018). The …

  • Article from 17.04.2015 | Last changed: 17.04.2015

    Wastes containing POPs and PCB

    transformer station

    … specifies the words "otherwise disposed of in an environmentally sound manner". The specific properties of POPs necessitate specific disposal techniques that meet the … residual stocks) that exceed the mandated limit values after the equipment in question has been decontaminated. With special permission, operation of such …

  • Article from 18.03.2014 | Last changed: 05.04.2016

    Hazardous waste

    Workers remove asbestos roof sheets

    … notify to local authorities (a) the type, quantity and composition of the waste in question; and (b) the envisaged disposal facility. The authorities then assign the … notify to local authorities (a) the type, quantity and composition of the waste in question; and (b) the envisaged disposal facility. The authorities then assign the …