Together with 28 other organizations from the extended environment of the Network Resource turnaround We have established common requirements for the National Circular Economy Strategy.
We very much welcome the fact that the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection has set up a national circular economy strategy (NKWS) and initiated a broad participation process. The strategy, if designed accordingly, has the potential to advance the transformation from linear to circular economy and to approach the reduction of absolute primary raw material consumption. The latter is also a coalition goal of the traffic light government. Despite the now advanced participation process, we continue to see the danger that the final NPPS will not have this desired effect.
To realise its potential, the strategy must include binding targets and measures, as well as some cross-sectoral and cross-material instruments. In our view, it is also crucial that NKWS is understood as an interdepartmental strategy and that all relevant ministries assume responsibility for an ambitious design and implementation.
