The Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region has recognized the bioeconomy as an important future field and included it in its regional development concept in 2020. The focus is on the topics of "residual biomass for material use", "CO2 recycling" and "urban mining".

The fields of action of our specialist group include the areas of "Residual material supply and utilization potential", "Market demand and economic potential", "Political and legal framework conditions" and "Information and knowledge transfer". In the individual areas, the aim is to create transparency about the supply of biogenic residual materials, to reduce regulatory barriers to the recycling of waste as a residual material and to improve single-variety processing. Another concern is to raise general awareness of the bioeconomy in the region.

Overall, the work in our specialist group serves to establish new value chains in order to recycle biogenic materials, achieve regional value creation and establish sustainable business models.