“After the project “dissolution” of the National People’s Armed Forces was completed in 1996, I had to fully reorient myself. With experience in marketing old stock, I turned back to the industry. In 1996, it was tantamount to a revolution to also consider industrial waste as a potential product and to want to bring it to market. Conservative waste managers in particular have seen this as an illegal act. Today, the Circular Economy Act states the following sentence: “If a substance or object is produced in a manufacturing process the primary purpose of which is not the production of that substance or object, it shall be regarded as a by-product and not as waste”. We also have a tiny share in this.
In this way, we have saved hundreds of thousands of tonnes from senseless disposal over many years up to the present day and, to the same extent, conserved natural raw materials for our future. Without calling it that, we have always acted very sustainably.
Very quickly, in addition to the waste-to-product project, we also started trading in new products again.” (Ulrich Lips)
