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Waste

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  Enforcement still at the start line

  Blog 11/28/2024

  Miranda Amachree has dedicated her career to the environment – driven by her decades-long passion for the subject. That’s why, until her retirement in 2021, she was the Director of Inspection & Enforcement at Nigeria’s National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA).

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  The Partnership for Responsible Battery and Metal Recycling (ProBaMet) Project starts in Nigeria with visits to lead smelters in Ogun State

  Blog 06/12/2024

  Researcher Frederick Adjei shares insights into the work and approach of the collaboration with local stakeholders within the ProBaMet Project.

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  The EU Batteries Regulation – a success for the circular economy

  Blog 07/26/2023

  The EU Regulation concerning batteries and waste batteries is due to enter into force very soon. The Oeko-Institut conducted research in support of the development process and welcomes the Regulation. In our blog, Dr Hartmut Stahl and Dr Johannes Betz comment on this success.

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  Waste management in practice in Ghana and Nigeria

  Blog 01/05/2023

  Tobias Schleicher, scientist at the Oeko-Institut, was on the road in West Africa, where two of his waste management projects are on the home straight. In this blog post, Tobias Schleicher describes his impressions.

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  Linking a global plastic pollution agreement with local realities

  Blog 12/02/2022

  However, in the often abstract negotiations, it is important not to overlook realities at the local level, where action will be needed to implement the agreement.

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  Waste Management in India: A Woman Fights for the Circular Economy

  10/04/2022

  Wilma Rodrigues founded the Sahaas Zero Waste company, which now offers comprehensive services that help to retain resources within the cycle.

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  Civilisation’s gold: first-ever mapping of the urban mining potential to 2040

  Blog 06/28/2022

  How large is the anthropogenic material stock in Germany, and how much is it likely to increase? This has now been calculated by a team of researchers at the Oeko-Institut, who have also produced a forecast of the realistic potential to obtain secondary raw materials from urban mining to 2040.

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  Innovation diffusion process of the German’s green technology for preventing plastic waste – and its applicability to Thailand

  Blog 05/25/2022

  Our visiting researcher Napaporn Yuberk is the National Coordinator for the CAP SEA project based in GIZ Office Bangkok, Thailand. She writes about her thoughts on Germany’s innovation diffusion process.

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  #CircularEconomy_6: More closed-loop clothing: Textiles must be recycled

  Blog 10/27/2021

  [Translate to English:] Kleidung wird immer mehr zu einem Wegwerfprodukt. Unsere Analyse zeigt, welche Wege es in der EU für eine Kreislaufwirtschaft im Textilbereich gibt.

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  #CircularEconomy_5: Waste compensation as a circular business model in the e-waste sector

  Blog 07/20/2021

  As we mentioned in one of our previous blogs, everyone seems to be talking about circular business models as a contribution to a circular economy. But not all of these models lead to real progress in addressing social and environmental problems. So what makes a difference? Senior Researcher Tobias Schleicher shares his thoughts on e-waste and waste compensation.

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  #CircularEconomy_2: Fishers take action on ghost nets

  Blog 05/11/2021

  Andreas Manhart looks at how, with economic incentives and reliable financing, the principle of the Circular Economy can be applied to solve a specific environmental problem.

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  Using incentives to put out fires [de/eng]

  Blog 02/11/2020

  The area of Agbogbloshie in Accra, Ghana’s capital city, has come to the world’s attention on account of its role in the recycling of electronic waste (e-waste) and the problems that this gives rise to. Andreas Manhart of the Oeko-Institut took part in a project that looked for – and found – new ways of solving the e-waste problem in Ghana.

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  #plasticfree: Car tyres are the main microplastic pollutant [deu/eng]

  Blog 12/18/2019

  Part 4: Tyre abrasion is in Germany responsible for one third of the total microplastic input into the environment.

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  #plasticfree: Microplastics are in style

  Blog 12/13/2019

  Part 3: Instead of clothes, we should change our attitude towards fashion.

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  #plasticfree: A bowl of soup instead of packet soup

  Blog 12/09/2019

  Part 2: Consumers should ask themselves with every piece of plastic they hold in their hands: How could I avoid this waste next time?