Sustainability Report 2016 / 2017

Cooperation 87 Environment Minister visits Mainz In 2015 our Recyclate Initiative had the ear of politicians. In June Federal Environment Minister Dr. Barbara Hendricks accepted our invitation to Mainz for a discussion prior to the debate on the recy- cling legislation. On site she had a look at the Recyclate Initiative’s technical production processes. Federal Chairman of the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen Cem Özdemir visited our company in the same month to learn more about our initiatives and to talk with Reinhard Schneider about sustainable management. German Association for SMEs In the German Association for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (BVMW) Reinhard Schneider has assumed the chairmanship of the Energy Commission in Berlin because it is important to him to actively shape the energy revolution. Energy generation and distribution should be as decentralized as possible and as centralized as neces- sary. Sustainability does not mean doing without electricity, but it does mean that energy efficiency meas­ ures are more than pure cost reduction tactics.