Abstract: A web-type floor covering made of vulcanized rubber that includes an elastic rubber web, the top side of which forms a decorative surface, first decorative particles being at least partially embedded in the rubber web so that the first decorative particles are visible from the top side, a transparent coating, in particular made of epoxy resin, being applied to the first decorative particles on at least part of their contact surface with the rubber web, the first decorative particles being preferably made of a different material from that used for the rubber web.

Abstract: A web-type floor covering made of vulcanized rubber that includes an elastic rubber web, the top side of which forms a decorative surface, first decorative particles being at least partially embedded in the rubber web so that the first decorative particles are visible from the top side, a transparent coating, in particular made of epoxy resin, being applied to the first decorative particles on at least part of their contact surface with the rubber web, the first decorative particles being preferably made of a different material from that used for the rubber web.

Abstract: A biodegradable substrate in sheet form which acts as a source of carbon and hydrogen in oxygen-poor water in biological water-treatment stages. The substrate is covered with at least one layer of a population of spontaneously growing denitrifiers. The substrate is a spun-bonded non-woven fabric weighing 10 to 1500 g/m.sup.2. It has a prescribed effective area that results in an ideal rate of denitrification per clarification stage at a prescribed rate of flow per area and time. The fabric is comprised of at least 50% continuous poly-.epsilon.-caprolactone filament with a mean molecular weight of 20,000 to 70,000. The individual filaments adhere to each other at their intersections.