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Waste | Resources

Resource use and its consequences

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There’s no doubt about it: resource use is freighted with consequences. It inevitably generates emissions and other untoward environmental effects across the entire lifecycle of each and every product. Moreover, growing resource scarcity and fluctuating raw materials prices are provoking severe economic disruption and social unrest. read more

The Umweltbundesamt

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