Experiences

Automobile industry

• Automobile series lacquers - utilisation of enamel residual materials
• Environmental compatible painting systems
• Smell development with the lacquer finish - concept for identification of sources
• Plastic recycling - evaluation of the offered procedures
• Possibilities for industrial disassembly plants
• Automotive shredder residue - reliable chemical definition

 

Agriculture/biological material flow

• Meaning of compost in the cycle of economy
• Chances for the animal body removal despite TSE
• Effective use of the material flow of a TBA - concept development
• Environmental relevance of the leather production - risks and chances
• Biologically decomposition foils - status and chances

Biotechnology and genetic engineering

• Criteria for responsible handling

Printing and paper industry

• Printed products able to be composted – how does it work?
• Preference list on gravure printing chemicals
• Inventory of printing ink pigments

Service concepts

• Service washing - feasibility for practical realisation

Electro-technology/electronics

• Research project to electrical and electronics old devices against the background of electronic scrap regulation
• Meaning of the pure arsenic production for electrical industry and environment
• Printer and copying machine: Toner composition - health risks
• Gaseous emissions from electrical household appliances – inventory
• Washing machine - inventory of the composition, starting points for the optimisation

Industrial plants

• Non-polluting carbonisation in Germany

Plastics and synthetic fibres

• Effects to the environment of the application of a new catalyst for polyester production
• Pigments for plastic coloration - Inventory and evaluation
• Pollutants in toys – spot sample, evaluation of quality assurance
• Environmental relevance of chemical fibres

Textiles

• Organotin compounds in textiles - analysis concept for source identification
• Possibility of a textile laboratory in the Mediterranean area
• Preference lists of colouring matters
• textile UV protection
• Environmental and health compatibility of uniform materials
• Criteria for lasting wool textiles

Waste industry

• Quality and costs of waste management in German cities
• Impact on the environment of the thermal utilisation of automobile shredder residue
• Thermoselect - material flow analysis and environmental evaluation
• Evaluation of the utilisation of secondary fuel out of residual waste
• Impact on the environment of a shredding waste deposit
• Drawing of statistically reliable samples out of waste materials
• Quality assurance with waste analytics

Recycling and utilisation

• Effective recycling of plastics - which plastic how to recycle?
• Evaluation of the utilisation of secondary fuel out of residual waste
• Heavy metal contents in mixed plastics - analytics project for source identification

Enterprises and organisations

The experiences are based upon co-operation with following enterprises and organisations:

• Akzo Nobel
• AVG Abfallverwerwertungsgesellschaft mbH
• BASF Coatings
• Bayer AG
• Beiersdorf
• Ben & Jerry’s
• Britta Steilmann "It’s one world"
• Broschek Druck
• Bundesministerium des Inneren
• Ciba Spezialitätenchemikalien
• Degussa
• Duales System Deutschland AG
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kunststoffrecycling mbH
• Ford Motor Company
• Gemeinde Oberkrämer
• Greenpeace Deutschland e.V.
• Heidemark
• Herman Miller
• Lantal Plastics
• MBA Neumünster GmbH
• Mittelständische Entsorgungsinitiative Schleswig-Holstein GmbH
• Nike
• Nord-Schrott GmbH & Co. KG
• Oldenburger Fleischmehlfabrik Kampe
• Otto Versand
• Remondis
• SC Johnson
• Unilever
• Volkswagen AG