German plastic waste exports to Asia increased by nearly 50% last year, according to waste management association BDE. In 2023, around 158,000 tonnes of plastic waste were shipped from Germany to Asia ...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany has launched a new search for a site to store its most radioactive nuclear waste, eliminating a disputed site at a former salt mine that was earmarked decades ago and has long ...

The global nuclear power industry, having survived the near death experience of the 11 March 2011 disaster at Tepco’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex still has an ongoing problem worldwide – ...

The second of three planned shipments of high-level radioactive waste has left the Sellafield site in northwest England and is being transported by rail and sea to its destination at the Isar interim ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of ...

A banner on a bridge left by Greenpeace activists protesting against shipment of nuclear waste from Germany to Russia. Getty Images Officials in Germany are scrambling to find a location to bury ...

Illegal waste dumping. File photo: Source - F Moreau Lille3, CC SA 3,0 Illegal waste dumping. File photo: Source - F Moreau Lille3, CC SA 3,0 A complaint has been filed to the European Commission ...

Currently, there are 17 nuclear reactors at 12 different sites in Germany. According to a 2002 amendment to the country’s 1959 Atomic Energy Act, each reactor has a fixed amount of megawatt hours that ...

The containers of nuclear waste were carefully lifted off the ship by craneSina Schuldt/dpa/picture alliance A ship carrying castor seven containers filled with highly radioactive nuclear waste docked ...

German companies dumped hazardous waste in the small Czech village of Jirikov, which has no facilities to recycle trash like crushed car batteries, shredded hard drives and wind turbine blades. So how ...

In the dead of the night in December, tons of trash mixed with fiberglass debris from wind turbine blades, shredded hard-drives and car batteries were dumped in the small Czech municipality of Jirikov ...