RETech Initiative Recycling and Efficiency Technologies

The Export Initiative Recycling and Efficiency Technologies, RETech, was established in 2007 in order to support the de-velopment of sustainable waste management systems world-wide, thereby enhancing export prospects for waste manage-ment technologies and services ”Made in Germany–. RETech supports its stakeholders in exporting waste management concepts, services and products to industrialized countries, emerging markets and developing countries. RETech–s instru-ments are the transfer of German waste management know-how, the export of technologies, and the improvement of re-gulatory frameworks in countries that do not yet dispose of an efficient waste management system. RETech–s central plat-form is the internet portal www.retech-germany.de. It pro-vides information and possibility for interaction for German and international users, including waste management compa-nies, public sector and private institutions and universities.