Budget funds for recycling labels for the first time

The Federal Association of the German Waste, Water and Raw Materials Management Industry (BDE) has called for the provision of Funds to finance a concept for the design of a recycling label as an important and necessary step. Accordingly, the environmental budget is to be increased for this purpose in this federal budget.

Previously, the Bundestag's Budget Committee had cut funding for research and studies in the environmental budget. by a total of 600,000 euros for the next few years increased. The aim is to secure funding for a concept for the development of such a label.

„With the concept financing, the budget politicians are not only creating the basis for the introduction of a recycling label in Germany, but are also fulfilling an old BDE demand. They are also realising a plan already agreed in the coalition agreement of the traffic light coalition. We at the BDE are firmly convinced that informed consumers, regardless of whether they are private customers or public procurers, base their purchasing decisions on clear and transparent information on the manufacture of products. In addition naturally also includes information on whether products have been produced in a particularly recycling-friendly manner and whether recycled materials have been used. In a system that is increasingly developing into a circular economy, information of this kind should be part of the standard product information. Today's decision in the Budget Committee provides the necessary conditions for this. It is now important to speed up the design of the label. The current impact is only a first step: the label must be applied to products as quickly as possible.“

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Jens Loschwitz, BDE-Managing Director

Source: BDE