Emission limits of the sinter waste gas have been continually andstrictly tightened in the EU for the last years. To cope with these environmentalchallenges, a survey about the sinter plant flue gas cleaningtechnologies was carried out within the VDEh sub-committee“Burden preparation”. This paper summarizes the main results of thissurvey and describes briefly principles of different processes andtechnologies including some of the latest development in the field ofsinter waste gas cleaning.