… toys and baby items. Other rubber or plastic products such as gardening gloves or mouse pads may contain no more than 1 mg/kg. 25.02.2016 Annex XVII of the European … rubbers and plastics. They can be absorbed through the skin when these products are used. Our newly updated background paper explains how to avoid PAHs in daily life. …

… project is the development of curated substance lists with regard to the intended use and the underlying chemical legislation (e.g. REACH EC 1907/2006, Plant … project is the development of curated substance lists with regard to the intended use and the underlying chemical legislation (e.g. REACH EC 1907/2006, Plant …

… Germany hands over HELCOM chairmanship to Latvia For a healthy and sustainably used Baltic Sea Source: HELCOM Latvia will assume the two-year rotational … Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM) on 1 July 2022. Germany’s Chair focused on biodiversity and climate, sought solutions for unexploded ordnance and …

… challenges such as climate change. This paper derives a working definition of NbS, using the IUCN (2016) definition as a basis. Climate impact of nature-based … depend largely on the extent to which direct and indirect pressures on ecosystems caused by current production and consumption patterns are reduced.  Nature-based …

… year since weather records began. In the long-term, we must emit fewer greenhouse gases in Germany. We are on target regarding the development of renewable … since 2000. However, compared to the previous year, 2016 saw a rise in greenhouse gas emissions. There is a need for action, especially in the transport sector, … from agriculture is a major environmental problem. In the future, slurry must be used more efficiently and mixed more quickly into the soil. It is also important to …

… on their living environment, behaviour, health status and other topics are used to obtain data that can indicate possible sources and uptake pathways of … themselves, but also a collective benefit for the other people living in the household (e.g. in the case of drinking water samples). Benefits for the general …

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… collects, sorts and recycles large quantities of packaging waste from private households, more than 5.5 million tonnes in total. This enables valuable raw materials … The quota for glass packaging was missed by 6.9 percentage points; too much used glass ends up in residual waste and not in the glass recycling container. The …

… They endanger the biological diversity of our forests and heaths because plant species adapted to low-nutrient soils are displaced. Excessive amounts of … to bringing down nitrogen emissions. In particular, it must regulate more efficient use of chemical fertilisers and more rapid entry of slurry into soil. Whether or not … Another important factor: larger distances between bodies of water and land areas used for agriculture would reduce the direct input of fertilisers into surface …