recycling / 23.01.2018

Today, the EU presented its new rules on plastic packaging, according to which all packaging should be made recyclable. Up to now, we Germans have been considered the world champions in recycling. Sounds great, doesn’t it?! But is it true? Maybe it's true that we are among world leaders in terms of the amount of recycled materials. But this tells us nothing about the quality of upcycling! Plastic packaging does not have the best reputation, although we use it daily and more and more food and other goods are...

power / 23.01.2018

The current pace of the energy transition means that it will be 2150 before we are able to achieve our goals. This was the finding of a study at HTW Berlin University of Applied Sciences. The Head of the German Energy Agency confirms this assessment. “From now on, CO2 emissions must be reduced at twice the rate as they have been on average since 1990”, says Andreas Kuhlmann about the exploratory findings related to the climate targets negotiated by the Grand Coalition, whitewashing the exploratory findings. How is that...

Circular Economy, highlights / 23.01.2018

Fundamental questions regarding sustainable production within the industrial society remain unanswered. Climate change, the necessary protection of natural resources and the sustainability objectives of the United Nations are just some of the key concepts of this topic. The issue of energy transition and the necessary CO2 saving resulting from it are considered to be socially understood and strategies for energy transition are being implemented. Nonetheless, the raw material transition is not an issue that is socially understood or discussed, either in terms of its scope or its significance....

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