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Press release No. N 044 of 21 July 2022 Facts on gas supply: natural gas is major energy source for industry and households
...Since war broke out in Ukraine, attention has focused on the gas supply in Germany. This is the more so as hardly any natural gas from the Russian Federation has been delivered to Germany via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline since 11 July. Maintenance work on the pipeline is expected be completed today. ...
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Press release No. N 035 of 7 June 2022 25% less plastic waste exported in 2021 year on year
Germany exports markedly less plastic waste than a few years ago. In 2021, just over 766,200 tonnes of plastic waste was exported from Germany – that is one quarter less (-25.2%) than in 2020. At the time, just over one million tonnes had been …
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Press release No. N 016 of 3 March 2021 Exports of plastic waste down 33% in 2020 compared with ten years earlier
...From the waste bin into the shipping container: more than one million tonnes of plastic waste were exported from Germany last year Germany is the EU’s largest plastic waste exporter Before the coronavirus pandemic: the per capita quantity of recyclables collected from households amounted to 146 kilograms in 2019 WIESBADEN - Many goods are packaged in plastic in Germany; the waste generated is recycled, disposed in landfills, burned or leaves the country in the form of trading goods. ...