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  • Article from 27.08.2025 | Last changed: 27.08.2025

    Nitrogen

    A tractor spreading fertilizer on a field

    … Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for all living organisms. The use of mineral and organic nitrogen fertilizers to increase yields is therefore common practice in … nitrogen cycle and sensitive systems can lead to environmental and health impacts. More than 50 percent of reactive nitrogen compounds in Germany enter the environment …

  • Article from 08.09.2025 | Last changed: 08.09.2025

    Pharmaceuticals

    Laying-hens in a hen house

    … Antibiotics are used on a large scale in industrialised farming. Source: Gina Sanders / Fotolia.com Pharmaceuticals, which have become a lynchpin of our high standard of living, improve our quality of life and palliate and cure human and veterinary diseases. However, pharmaceuticals need …

  • Article from 31.01.2019 | Last changed: 29.05.2024

    Nitrous oxide and methane

    Cows standing on a green meadow. The sky is blue, only some clouds are visible.

    Nitrous oxide and methane Cows standing on a green meadow Source: Mikhail Dudarev / Fotolia Tilling, nitrogen … Nitrous oxide Nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas that does around 300 times more climate damage than carbon dioxide. The main point sources of nitrous oxide are …

  • Article from 14.02.2013 | Last changed: 28.04.2023

    Ammonia, dust and odour emissions

    Pigs on a meadow

    Ammonia, dust and odour emissions Pig farming - a source of ammonia emissions … sector in Germany, but one that unfortunately generates ammonia emissions, odours and dust that are hazardous to the environment and a nuisance to persons living in … cleaning systems, which reduce pigsty and cattle barn emissions, are used by more than 1,000 German farms (mainly pig farms). Waste air cleaning systems combined …

  • Article from 28.08.2025 | Last changed: 29.08.2025

    Compost and sewage sludge

    A yellow wheel loader implements composting in a composting plant.

    Compost and sewage sludge Wheel loader being used to turn compost Source: Tim Hermann / UBA Compost and sewage sludge contain valuable nutrients and humus substances that farmers … (PFTs), pharmaceutical residues, pathogens, nanoparticles, microplastics, and much more. When applied to the soil with fertilizers, these pollutants can accumulate in …

  • Article from 17.07.2024 | Last changed: 18.07.2024

    Water Reuse

    … wastewater, has been a long-established reality in many (semi)arid countries and regions. It helps to alleviate water scarcity by supplementing limited … reuse enables circular water use, it fosters further elimination of pollutants and pathogens and can contribute to a reduction of freshwater usage and wastewater discharge.  In …

  • Article from 08.10.2021 | Last changed: 16.07.2025

    Joint research project on decentralized water reuse

    Taking lysimeter cores in a field to analyze water balance and transport processes.

    … water reuse Taking lysimeter cores in a field to analyze water balance and transport processes. Source: Kento Ruhl last update on 08.10.2021 In the … municipal wastewater to reduce competition for water), the decentralized treatment and reuse of domestic wastewater for the irrigation of plants is investigated in both field and laboratory experiments by seven research institutes and companies in cooperation …

  • Article from 18.07.2024 | Last changed: 19.07.2024

    EU Regulation on Minimum Requirements for Water Reuse

    … Requirements for Water Reuse The EU Regulation 2020/741 of the European Parliament and of the Council on minimum requirements for water reuse entered into force on 26 June 2020 and applies in all EU member states since 26 June 2023. last update on 18.07.2024 … costs, member state can decide that water reuse it not appropriate for one or more of its river basin districts or parts thereof. This decision needs to be …

  • Article from 29.12.2021 | Last changed: 05.01.2024

    Water Resource Management

    … Water Resource Management last update on 29.12.2021 Water is a vital and limited resource. There are legal provisions on its sustainable management, … National Water Dialogue that the ministry had implemented together with UBA. More than 200 participants from the water industry, agriculture and research, from …

  • Article from 12.06.2025 | Last changed: 12.06.2025

    Serious Gaming and Sustainability

    Game controller with landscape

    Serious Gaming and Sustainability SubSeGa - Gaming meets Sustainability Source: Elisabeth Lena … like Greta Thunberg and Luisa Neubauer, personal interest in contributing to a more sustainable future seems to remain high, even in times of multiple crises …

  • Article from 23.11.2022 | Last changed: 07.02.2023

    International information offers

    … a collection of different international offers of information on biocides and their alternatives is presented on this page. last update on 23.11.2022 Based on … behalf of UBA in 2021, a collection of international information offers on biocides and their alternatives was compiled. Some of those offers are only available in … Agency https://www.hallakonsument.se/en/engelska/ Sweden English, Swedish, and many more Podcast about the use of antifouling paints and alternatives (episode 4) …

  • Article from 23.11.2022 | Last changed: 07.02.2023

    Non-biocidal substitution for biocidal antifouling coatings

    … Their substitution with non-biocidal alternatives is the key to achieve proper and sustainable use . Existence of non-biocidal alternatives also needs to be … harmful fouling organisms can be used to reduce the use of biocidal antifoulings and their unintended effects on non-target organisms and the environment to the minimum necessary. This is especially of relevance for …