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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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
#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.
#plasticfree: Microplastics are in style

Blog 12/13/2019

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

Enforcement still at the start line

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

The EU Batteries Regulation – a success for the circular economy

Waste management in practice in Ghana and Nigeria

Linking a global plastic pollution agreement with local realities

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

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

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

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

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

#CircularEconomy_2: Fishers take action on ghost nets

Using incentives to put out fires [de/eng]

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

#plasticfree: Microplastics are in style

#plasticfree: A bowl of soup instead of packet soup