Herwart Wilms, Germany’s top cleanliness expert at Remondis, and his 44,000 colleagues handle waste disposal, viewing what most call trash as valuable resources that we dispose of daily.
We therefore want to know from the Remondis Managing Director whether separating waste in the yellow bag really helps our planet or just our conscience. How it can be that recycling plants currently have to close due to lack of capacity utilisation. Why we are not entirely innocent of the fact that recycling plants costing millions are simply burning down more and more often. And why he believes that one day in the not too distant future we will be paying a deposit on yoghurt pots and milk cartons.