POLYPROBLEM Camp 2026
Who finances the circular economy? How does the money get to where it is really needed? These questions are the focus of our second POLYPROBLEM camp in Berlin, entitled "Wechsel-Geld“.
Mind the gap
The seventh POLYPROBLEM report, entitled "MIND THE GAP – Plastic Waste swims between values and reality," deals with the causes and effects of the so-called intention-behavior gap.
Buy your way out
Offsetting measures still play a subordinate role in combating the global plastic waste crisis. This is mainly due to an intransparent market and inadequate standardization.
Mind the gap
The seventh POLYPROBLEM report, entitled "MIND THE GAP – Plastic Waste swims between values and reality," deals with the causes and effects of the so-called intention-behavior gap.
Buy your way out
Offsetting measures still play a subordinate role in combating the global plastic waste crisis. This is mainly due to an intransparent market and inadequate standardization.
The responsible use of natural resources is one of the most pressing global challenges of our time.
The Röchling Foundation supports initiatives and organizations that contribute to a circular life and economy with practical solutions, and in particular helps to avoid and reduce plastic waste in the environment.
With our own projects, we create transparency and strengthen the cooperation of civil society, business, science and politics.
We are creating collaborations.
A planned ESF Plus project, co-funded by the Röchling Stiftung, starts not with job-application training but with belonging, self-efficacy, and responsibility.
Who is financing the transition to a circular economy? How does the money get to where it’s really needed? And how can the business community, investors, policymakers, and civil society work together effectively to achieve this? These questions are the focus of our second POLYPROBLEM camp in Berlin-Neukölln, titled “Wechsel-Geld.”
Berlin-based association Acker is working to make the shipping of young plants for growing plots at schools, daycare centres, and kindergartens more sustainable. Acker is a non-profit educational organisation and a social enterprise that has scaled with exceptional success in recent years.
Using bio-based insulation materials for buildings as an example, co2online and its partners are testing how non-profit actors can prepare their information and advisory services so that they are visible, accurate, and helpful for concrete decisions in AI-powered answer systems.
Our eighth POLYPROBLEM report, "Change", examines why financing for the circular economy is stalling despite its recognized potential. Using start-ups, established companies, banks, and politics as examples, the report shows what is slowing down the circular transition and what could make it possible.
The three-year Cradle-to-Cradle Electronics Initiative (C2CEI) creates a platform that goes beyond traditional circular economy principles and establishes Cradle to Cradle (C2C) as a forward-looking strategic standard in the industry.
Founded in 2018, the Osnabrück-based organization Ozeankind promotes environmental awareness among children on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar through environmental protection and recycling projects.
The Röchling Foundation supports civil society organizations committed to the transition from a linear to a circular way of life and economy. Learn more about our funding guidelines here.
How can a sustainable future with plastic succeed? This question was the focus of our first POLYPROBLEM Camp "New Narratives for the Plastic Transition" in Frankfurt, which brought together experts from civil society and business in Frankfurt.
