The Recycling and Raw Material Conference in Berlin dealt with current legal, economic and technical developments in waste management, raw materials and recycling.
The most important topics included research clusters, funding by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the areas of sustainability research, economic strategic resources in and from waste streams, resource potentials of mineral residues and by-products of thermal processes, the recovery of valuable materials from waste mass flows from residential and commercial waste and the resource potential of dumps and landfills.
The session "BMBF Funding of Sustainability Research" included presentations of research results from the following r² projects:
Dr. Katrin Ostertag
Fraunhofer Institute for Systems
and Innovation Research ISI
Breslauer Strasse 48
76139 Karlsruhe
Phone: +49 721 6809-124
Anja Degenhardt
Projektträger Jülich Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Zimmerstrasse 26-27
10969 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 30 20199-406