00:00I think one thing is that we need to change the mindset.
00:03We need to make a single market for waste because now we have a lot of regulation between
00:10our member states that are too fragmentised to get the really economic rise.
00:15The EU has had 50 years of waste legislation in place, still very little circularity.
00:21How can we make it happen for real?
00:23It's one of my frustrations actually.
00:25I don't have the answer why we are not there yet.
00:27But if I look at the figures, in the EU the average is 12%, absolutely not good enough.
00:32We have countries that are better, for example the Netherlands has 30%, Italy 20%, Belgium
00:3890%.
00:39So of course there are, but that is also not good enough.
00:42And also if you look at some of the critical raw materials, we import 90% of this from other
00:48countries around the world and only 1% is recycled or reused, which is of course not good enough
00:55and also not security wise, not economically wise, but I think the time is now for actually
01:00to do a better figure.
01:01How much of the solution is urban mining?
01:05An average family in Europe have 74 digital devices and 17 of these are hidden in the drawer.
01:11And that is because it's an asset.
01:13And I see waste as not only digital, it can be water waste, it can be textile waste.
01:19All of this we need to see as an asset that we also need to use more sustainable, more economical
01:25and also for our own security.
01:27In the end, is circularity more sustainable or strategic issue?
01:32It's the two sides of one of the same coin.
01:36And in my view, and also when I talk with industry, they also see that going more circular is a business
01:42case, but do they get to get the economics right?
01:44There is no contradiction between those two elements and also the third one about the economic security.
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