In 2005, The Ministry of the Environment of Germany, where there were 66 incinerators at that time, estimated that "...whereas in 1990 one third of all dioxin emissions in Germany came from incineration plants, for the year 2000 the figure was less than 1%.
在2005年，針對當時全國的66座焚化爐，德國環境部估計“...在1990年德國有三分之一的戴奧辛排放來自垃圾焚化廠，到2000年，它們只占到全部戴奧辛排放的1%。