20世纪末,发达国家再生资源产业规模为2500亿美元,本世纪初已增至6000亿美元,预计到2016年可达18000亿美元。这说明,循环经济是一个巨大的产业。德国是欧洲国家中循环经济发展水平最高的国家之一,它的循环经济系统正变得越来越成熟。德国废物管理政策的目标就是实现一种面向未来的、可持续的循环经济。其政策重心首先是资源保护,其次是尽可能有效地处理废物。德国当前的做法是使得废物经济管理 At the end of the 20th century, the scale of the industrialized renewable resources in the developed countries was 250 billion U.S. dollars, increasing to 600 billion U.S. dollars at the beginning of this century. It is expected to reach 1.8 billion U.S. dollars in 2016. This shows that circular economy is a huge industry. As one of the countries with the highest level of development of circular economy in European countries, Germany is becoming more and more mature in its circular economy. The goal of the German waste management policy is to achieve a sustainable, recycling economy that is future-proof. The focus of its policy is primarily on resource protection, and secondly on waste disposal as efficiently as possible. The current practice in Germany is to make waste economic management