No more unrecyclable items in Europe an stop mixing recyclable materials in packaging

New sustainable economic policy?

The continuous growth of the economy should be more efficient and sustainable in the future, guided by the planet’s borders. The benchmark for progress and prosperity was the growth of per capita income, GDP. The value of the products was fictitious, had nothing to do with its utility value and was unrelated to the real value of the raw materials used, material and labour costs, environmental utilisation.

A green economy must take into account not only the costs of raw materials and energy, which are already being used much more efficiently, but also the limits of increasing the use of technologies. With an efficiency increase of 1 % per year, the maximum efficiency will be reached by the end of the century at the latest. The economy is bound by the finite boundaries of our planet.

A system of equalisation and stable equilibrium must be established. This can be a circular economy.

The legal framework should be Article 14 of our Basic Law, which states: Ownership is under the obligation of ownership. Its use shall also serve the public good.

This means that producers of many products are obliged and responsible for their property.

A major shift of the economic system to services could be such a way of innovation. The producer does not sell his products and thus gives up his property with duty and responsibility, as it has done so far, which has led to a system of organised irresponsibility by suppliers, distributors, subcontractors, etc., but is responsible for his product as owner from the beginning to the end. It lends, rents out its property to users, owners, users and thus retains all possibilities of sustainable pricing, recall, repair, modernisation, renovation, resale and take-back with recycling or disposal. The producer could finally communicate, rent, rent, lend and give a new experience to the user of his product in advertising.

Tenants, tenants, lenders, beneficiaries and users shall only become holders with contractual rights and obligations in accordance with their actual needs in time and at local level. This also allows sharing and shared benefits.

When renting rooms, apartments, houses, this principle is already being applied and the experience of housing, shelter, roof over the head, habitat is conveyed.

Instead of gas and electricity, heat is already supplied (district heating) and travel or air tickets allow the experience of moving and mobility.

Many products, such as cars, mobile phones, technical equipment, furnishings, etc., have to be sold at the actual production costs (all costs of materials, production, delivery and packaging) in order to promote the production of, for example, sustainable mobile phones and environmental protection. In this way, sustainable, creative, sustainable and socially-ecological production can be achieved for many products.

This would facilitate and stimulate private investment and promote the solidarity and social economy in the public interest.

In order to achieve this, the state must, as far as possible, establish the framework conditions for the economy at global level and tax resource use in an appropriate manner. This would restore the economic and environmental balance and safeguard our livelihoods and prosperity for the future. The prosperity achieved in this way would allow us to measure our progress in a meaningful way. Germany could become an example of this, inspired by other countries and by which we sell our experience of innovative developments.

Bad idea, our industrial economy is not ready for that with reasonable costs. It would increase poverty.