True – since the beginning of the 17th century, it’s all water under the bridge of the Havel, directly along the Robert Bosch GmbH site in Berlin’s district of Spandau. For 300 years, ammunition had been produced on the site before Bosch started the production of broad-band cables, car antennae, radio transmitters etc. But also this is all history now – production has been discontinued, the eight-hectares area and its twelve protected buildings have been put up for sale...

Rain, that's nothing unusual around here. All the more surprising that nobody ever thought of protecting landfills from it. Precipitation seeps into the landfill and dissolves pollutants. These may then seep into the ground-water. No pleasant scenario. That's why nowadays landfills have to be provided with an effective sealing of substructures and surface seal ...

Let’s play the fool and pretend that PCBs possess excellent characteristics such as low thermal conductivity, low flammability and good ageing and temperature resistance. Thus, they could be used in many fields...