… could result in a softening of EU environmental standards. 23.06.2015 Lead and mercury, for example, are prohibited in electrical and electronic equipment in the …

… untold amounts of residual Source: airArt / Fotolia.com The following contents contain this medium: Waste disposal Tags landfill residue … Despite the ready availability of separate …

… connected to the inland via rivers. How do agriculture, road traffic and plastic waste contribute to marine pollution? To highlight the problem, UBA has produced a … connected to the inland via rivers. How do agriculture, road traffic and plastic waste contribute to marine pollution? To highlight the problem, UBA has produced a …

… Susanne Kambor / Umweltbundesamt Air pollution, climate change, land sealing, waste and water management are some of the greatest environmental challenges for … are air pollution, climate change and its effects, land sealing/land degradation, waste management and water management – challenges in all of the case studies … urban environmental protection … Air pollution, climate change, land sealing, waste and water management are some of the greatest environmental challenges for …

… Packaging waste: Online marketplaces must be subject to better oversight Online … on ensuring compliance with Packaging Act Only proper sorting of packaging waste leads to good recycling results Source: Rawpixel.com / Fotolia The German … option, the packaging should not only be designed to save material, but should also contain recycled materials. In principle, much more packaging could also be made …

… burden. Source: Umweltbundesamt Download image (1.02 MB) The following contents contain this medium: Food waste in the catering sector Tags waste prevention food waste … Excessive food production is an unnecessary …

… clothing must be worn. Source: Lucaz80 / Fotolia.com The following contents contain this medium: Waste containing asbestos Tags waste containing asbestos … When the asbestos protective …

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… Increasing the recycling of precious and minor metals Optimising waste management logistics makes recycling of precious and minor metals more … little of these metals are recovered from waste streams such as magnetic materials containing rare earth elements, automotive electronics, polishing agents containing … there is hardly any large-scale industrial recycling capacity available for waste containing minor metals. The ILESA project therefore developed and evaluated a …

… circular. Production and consumption patterns still follow the outdated ‘take-make-waste’ practices. As a result, the world has extracted 100 billion tonnes (Gt) of … and the Global Methane Pledge. It can reduce not only resource extraction and waste, but pollution, biodiversity loss as well as criticality of raw materials … circular. Production and consumption patterns still follow the outdated ‘take-make-waste’ practices. As a result, the world has extracted 100 billion tonnes (Gt) of …