At the time of renewal of the circular economy law is waived by the Minister of the environment to the greatest leverage: the purchases of the public sector.

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neglected, the Minister of the environment Is clear, but what is she playful there, right? In spite of nicely calculated recycling numbers, plastic waste from the Yellow bin, the flies around is illegal in Indonesia, and in the absence of regulations for new waste streams such as Lithium-ion batteries: Still the waste legislation in Germany in an international comparison, as a model. They benefited from the courageous environmental policy of the past decades, such as the landfill ban.

Despite the large Public for environmental issues – such a strict, revolutionary requirement would trust the current Minister of the environment never. She proves once more with her half-hearted revision of the recycling law.

in it there are a couple of good suggestions, but are captured again. So the Federal government wants to make it easier for the public sector, although, recycled materials shopping. The manufacturer will not complain for years that you get your products go on, because they are too expensive and standards are missing. The new law makes it a little easier, more. The public procurement would provide a huge lever to create markets for sustainably produced products.

Although there are no official statistics on the extent to which municipalities, States and the Federal shopping Numbers are now collected for the first time in a systematic way. Estimated to total between 300 and 500 billion euros a year. The Minister would have been dedicated to wasting their time at round tables with plastic waste, with full power of sustainable procurement and its amendment powerful passages enforced, would have you can really achieve something.

public procurement could create a huge market for sustainable products

Now it is managed by the Ministry of economy, once again, the suggestions of the Environmental Ministry to soften. It disregards the needs of companies that make offers for a sustainable economy – such as the recycling industry or repair shops. Their business practices just models in the future.