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The human-made pool of materials

09/17/2024

Mandy Schoßig
Head of Department Public Relations & Communications

The anthropogenic material stock in Germany alone holds an estimated 51.7 billion tonnes of material. It consists of buildings and infrastructures but also everyday goods that contain raw or processed materials, such as electrical and electronic equipment, vehicles and furniture. Urban mining aims to monitor and recover these resources. This not only eases the pressure on the environment and the climate; among other things, it also helps to reduce our import dependency. In the current issue of eco@work, we take an in-depth look at urban mining. We also cast a glance at Nigeria, where unsuitable recycling of lead-acid batteries is still causing major burdens upon people and the environment.

Read the current issue of eco@work Urban Mining: Aims, strategies, potential

Cost comparisons in international hydrogen trade: The PtX Business Opportunity Analyser (PtX-BOA)

Blog 10/02/2024

Hydrogen is high on policy agendas around the world. In Germany, the federal government adopted a hydrogen import strategy in July and long-distance transmission network operators are setting up essential infrastructure for a hydrogen transport network. Current estimates indicate that Germany will need to import 50 to 70 per cent of its hydrogen requirements in 2030.

New study on carbon storage: risks and recommendations for action

News 09/24/2024

In view of the urgent need to limit climate change, there is growing interest in technologies that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. A new study carried out by Oeko-Institut on behalf of the German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) sheds light on the challenges of the geological storage of CO2 (carbon storage, CS). It focuses in particular on the potential for storage off the coast of countries, known as offshore storage.