Let's #MoveTheDate. With Interzero.

Conserving resources: Together with our employees, customers and partners, we are already pushing back Earth Overshoot Day and reducing our impact on the planet.

Earth Overshoot Day is an uncomfortable reminder that we are living way beyond our means. In 2025, the limit was already reached on 24 July. This is the date by which humanity uses up all of the natural resources our planet can provide in one year. As an industrialized nation, for example, Germany reached this grim milestone earlier still on 3 May!

Here at Interzero, we are not prepared to stand by and watch as the world continues to exploit its resources. On the contrary, we are working to create a world without waste where we can use the resources available to us in a sustainable and responsible way. Our “zero waste solutions” actively contribute to climate action every day and help to ensure security of supply for future generations. Together with our employees, customers and partners, we are working hard to push back Earth Overshoot Day further, one step at a time.

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"Over the last years, we have been refining our assessments on how Interzero's activities are reducing global ecological overshoot. Our latest calculations confirm that the company, together with its clients, was able to postpone Earth Overshoot Day by several minutes. This means Interzero is truly circular: the more it does the smaller is global overshoot."

Mathis Wackernagel President, Global Footprint Network

With the clock ticking, we are taking action.

Source: Global Footprint Network

How successful have our efforts and our collaborations with customers been so far? We calculate this in partnership with the Global Footprint Network. The ‘resources SAVED by recycling’ study that has been run by the Fraunhofer Institute UMSICHT for many years provides valid base data. Interzero then commissions researchers to calculate the amount of greenhouse gases and natural resources we save by managing recyclable materials in a closed loop.

We at Interzero can proudly say that with our recycling activities and circular solutions, we give back 15 times more to our planet per dollar of economic output than the global economy takes on average. Researchers from the Global Footprint Network have confirmed that for every dollar of value add we generate with our zero waste solutions, global overshoot shrinks by over 32 global square metres. This contrasts starkly with the 2.1 global square metres of overshoot added for every dollar generated by the global economy. Without Interzero, Earth Overshoot Day would be 10 minutes and 28 seconds earlier. Our impact is therefore measurable even on a global scale. In terms of Germany, our impact would be as large as 6 hours and 31 minutes.

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"The ideas are there - powerful, effective, forward-looking. Committed people, courageous projects and innovative technologies are already making the circular economy a real ‘game changer’. But more is needed to anchor the change in the long term: we need to rewrite the rules of the game - boldly, together and with a view to a future worth living."

Sybilla Merian Head of Corporate Sustainability, Interzero

Join our movement and reduce your ecological footprint.

As a company, you can improve your sustainability balance sheet, your business resilience, your long-term profit opportunities and your reputation by focussing on a sustainable circular economy. As a private individual, you can make a small but important contribution every day so that our planet has more air to breathe again. You can find out how to do this on our company blog, where you will find all the latest news about Interzero, our services and our products.