June 25, 2021

On June 25, 2021, the habilitation treatise of Dr. Harald Schönberger was uploaded to the online platform Uni Stuttgart (OPUS). Thus, one of the sources cited in our expert report on waste co-incineration in cement plants is finally publicly accessible.

• Schönberger H. (2021): State of the art of the co-incineration of waste-derived fuels and raw materials in clinker/cement plants. Habilitation Treatise, accepted by the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Institute for Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality and Solid Waste Management.
• Zeschmar-Lahl B., Schönberger H., Waltisberg J.: Sachverständigengutachten  Abfallmitverbrennung in Zementwerken, UBA-Texte 202/2020.

April 22, 2021

The interface between chemicals and waste legislation is a major problem for the desired circular economy. In order to be able to reuse or recycle more waste, more information is needed about its composition and pollutant load. In their latest paper, Henning Friege, Barbara Zeschmar-Lahl, Beate Kummer and Jörg Wagner have investigated as examples some important products from different industries with different complexity and pollutant problems such as PVC flooring, used tires, Li batteries in electronic devices and others to learn more about real improvements for the recycling industry. The results have now been published in Sustainable Chemistry & Pharmacy.

19th February 2021

SCIP is the new European database for substances of concern. It is controversial in the recycling industry. What is the reason for this? The article by Beate Kummer, Henning Friege, Barbara Zeschmar-Lahl and Jörg Wagner has now also been published in RECYCLING magazin 02/2021.

15th February 2021 SCIP is the new European database for substances of concern. It is controversial in the recycling industry. What is the reason for this? Beate Kummer, Henning Friege, Barbara Zeschmar-Lahl and Jörg Wagner address this question in a guest commentary in 320° – Deutschlands Online-Magazin für die Recyclingwirtschaft (in German).

8th February 2021

In 2019/2020, ISC3 initiated a dialogue with various stakeholders worldwide as part of its Workstream Sustainable Building and Living, Focus on Plastics. The final report now available was prepared on the basis of international thematic workshops, interviews, online surveys and contributions from experts. We contributed to the preparation of chapter 3.2 Status quo of known health and environmental issues.

January 13, 2021

After the 2020 Most Cited Paper Award, Resources, Conservation & Recycling (RCR) has now also given us the 2020 Most Downloaded Paper Award for our contribution “Construction and demolition waste best management practice in Europe”. The award recognizes work that was published in RCR in a specific year (in this case 2018) and the highest number of downloads or full article views (ScienceDirect ) have received.