… impact Oil and gas are not stored for long at ports of entry. Sparing use means less maritime traffic. Source: keller / Fotolia.com Greater resource efficiency is … effect on the business cycle, product prices, and company profits; (c) reduced risk that raw materials price increases will trigger a new round of inflation; (d) … and information. Such a move would also reduce total material requirement (TMR) by more than 9 percent, and would reduce the budget deficit in 2030 by around €226 …

… cost reduction potential through resource efficiency Costing is an instrument that promotes resource efficiency Source: Picture Factory / Fotolia.com Across the … with only 18 percent for personnel costs. Hence material costs play a key role when it comes to companies being and remaining competitive. Companies can and should … costs for a company’s competitiveness, raw material productivity has increased less than work productivity since 1995. Resource use can be reduced, and costs along …

… Good to know about nanomaterials Nano structures are more than 1000 times smaller than the diameter of an human hair Source: … or more external dimensions. In addition, the definition also includes materials that are smaller than 1nm in two dimensions but larger than 100 nm in the third … Ministry, the Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA) participates in the Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials (WPMN) of the Organisation for Economic …

… The Federal Soil Protection Act of 17 March 1998 ( BBodSchG ) is only applicable when other legislation – like the Fertilizer Act or urban planning and building law … concerned are listed in Article 3 BBodSchG. However, the case law requires that the substantive requirements of soil protection law contained in the Federal …

… health. Source: Jürgen Fälchle / Fotolia.com Many European Research projects show that the development of low-emission materials and building products is the most … and associated emission limits (EU-LCI values). The procedure used by the EU-LCI Working Group to derive these European reference values for emissions from … are available on the EU-LCI website . The German Environment Agency (UBA) has worked in recent years intensively that the European Commission supports the …

… buildings. As part of the construction projects at its sites, UBA seeks to ensure that its construction measures meet strict climate and resource protection … which involves several employees sharing one workplace, in combination with mobile working is to be further developed and established at all locations. Despite growing … and cooperation partners, to reduce the CO2 emissions of their commutes to work, to shift them to environmentally friendly means of transport, and to offset …