The Kassel mining company K+S has announced, around 600 to invest millions of euros in the renovation of its factory on the Hesse-Thuringia border. Through the project “The 2060s” should until 2028 For the first time, potash salts are processed without using water and salt waste is stored underground. K+S producedover half all potassium- and magnesium-containing fertilizers from the EU.
The group is under criticism, since he has been managing salt wastewater in the Werra and Weser for decades - two of the most salt-polluted rivers in Europe. Although he welcomes BUND Hesse storage underground. As long as in others K+S-Works further open salt dumps exist, However, the risk of groundwater salinization remains.
is particularly problematic, that K+S the limit values for salt discharges into the Werra 2039 don't want to lower. At the same time, the group is opening a new location in Janikowo, Poland. This one just lies 50 Kilometers from the already heavily salted Vistula removed.