The fact that Silke Krebs, state secretary in the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Protection, and Energy, reported during the discussion on reducing bureaucracy that her ministry primarily viewed plastics waste as garbage â” while her colleagues from the Ministry of the Environment, Nature, and Transport saw it as a resource â” did nothing to strengthen the confidence of those in attendance that politicians had already developed a common idea regarding recycling requirements.
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