{"id":176587,"date":"2026-05-08T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=176587"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:57:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:57:04","slug":"industry-appeal-transformation-boosters-for-the-circular-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/industry-appeal-transformation-boosters-for-the-circular-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry appeal: \u2018Transformation boosters\u2019 for the circular economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

The broad cross-sector alliance, comprising the associations\u00a0BDE Bundesverband der Deutschen Entsorgungs-, Wasser- und Kreislaufwirtschaft<\/a>\u00a0(Federal Association of the German Waste Management, Water and Circular Economy),\u00a0bvse Bundesverband Sekund\u00e4rrohstoffe und Entsorgung<\/a>\u00a0(Federal Association for Secondary Raw Materials and Waste Management),\u00a0GKV Gesamtverband Kunststoffverarbeitende Industrie<\/a>\u00a0(General Association of the Plastics Processing Industry),\u00a0Plastics Europe Deutschland<\/a>\u00a0(PED) and the\u00a0VCI Verband der Chemischen Industrie<\/a>\u00a0(Federation of German Chemical Industries), warns that without this \u201cbooster\u201d, Germany faces the threat of industrial decline and job losses. The appeal comes ahead of the publication, announced for 6 May 2026, of an action programme for the implementation of the National Circular Economy Strategy (NKWS).<\/p>\n\n\n

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The background to this urgent call for swift action is the economic situation of the German plastics and recycling industry, which is deemed to be dire.<\/p>\n\n\n

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According to the associations, high energy, raw material and bureaucratic costs are placing a massive strain on domestic production. Many facilities, they say, have not been operating at profitable capacity for years. Despite the tense situation, the alliance is not calling for a retreat, but for greater momentum in the transition towards a climate-neutral, circular industry. The participating organisations see this as a matter of industrial survival: the circular economy ensures value creation, resilience and innovation, and creates skilled jobs. The alliance is calling for a portion of the \u20ac100 billion special fund for infrastructure and climate neutrality to be channelled specifically into circular economy and research infrastructure, in order to enable the scaling up of technologies and thus the circular business case. Furthermore, to strengthen the industry, the industrial electricity tariff should be extended to recyclers.\u00a0A corresponding report by the consultancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which reaches the same conclusion, has already been submitted to the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE<\/a>).
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The associations propose specific measures for the \u2018transformation booster\u2019. These include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n