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| Terms for subject Environment (24829 entries) |
| drying out (Removal of water from any substance) | Austrocknung | |
| drying time | Trocknungsdauer | |
| drying-out of wetlands | Austrocknung von Feuchtgebieten | |
| dual economy | Dualwirtschaft | |
| dual economy (An economy based upon two separate/distinct economic systems which co-exist in the same geographical space. Dualism is characteristic of many developing countries in which some parts of a country resemble advanced economies while other parts resemble traditional economies, i.e. there are circuits of production and exchange) | Dualwirtschaft | |
| dual fuel operation | Zweistoffbetrieb | |
| Dual System | Duales System Deutschland | |
| dual waste management (To reduce the quantity of packaging waste, and thereby of overall MSW, Germany introduced a far-reaching legislation to reduce waste, based on the producer's responsibility principle. Industry was given the option to set up a third party organization which would carry out the collection and sorting of sales packaging for care of manufacturers and retailers. Thus, Some 600 companies created "Duales System Deutschland" in 1990 ("Dual" because it meant creating a second collection system in parallel to the existing waste collection system of the local authorities). Duales System Deutschland (DSD), now has overall responsibility for the separate collection and recycling of packaging. At present, the Dual System is the only nationwide system for the collection and sorting of sales packaging. Packaging participating in this collection system is marked with the Green Dot) | Duale Abfallwirtschaft | |
| dual-fuel engine | bivalenter Antrieb | |
| dual-trap tracer analyser | Dual-Trap-Tracer-Analysiergerät | |
| ducks, geese and swans | Entenvögel | |
| dugong | Pazifische Seekuh | |
| dugongs | Gabelschwanz-Seekühe | |
| dummy run | Probeanlauf | |
| dummy run | Trockenanlauf | |
| dump | Müllablagerung | |
| dump | verkippen | |
| dump site | Deponiestandort | |
| dump system | Abblasesystem | |
| dump system | Dampfumleitsystem |