The Ministry of Environment, in cooperation with the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Supply and the Royal Scientific Society, worked on preparing the roadmap to serve as a national framework supporting the transition toward a more efficient and sustainable economy based on the optimal use of resources, and the promotion of reuse and recycling, thereby supporting economic growth while preserving the environment and natural resources.
This roadmap aligns with the Economic Modernization Vision, particularly the "Sustainable Environment" engine. It sets a long-term national path up to 2050 aimed at enhancing the resilience and competitiveness of the national economy, maximizing the utilization of local resources, and improving the quality of life, thereby achieving a balance between economic growth requirements and environmental sustainability.
The roadmap is based on transitioning from an economic model reliant on resource consumption and waste disposal to a model based on reuse, manufacturing, recycling, and converting usable waste into productive resources, thus contributing to curbing resource depletion, reducing waste, and cutting pollution.
The roadmap responds to numerous economic and environmental challenges, foremost among them water scarcity, heavy reliance on energy imports, and increasing waste quantities, which highlights the importance of developing waste management and capitalizing on it economically. The roadmap pays close attention to improving water resource efficiency in the Kingdom, encouraging the reuse of treated wastewater and rainwater harvesting, and recycling water in production processes, thereby helping to preserve water resources.
The roadmap aims to convert waste into resources of economic value by encouraging sorting, recycling, organic composting, and energy recovery, as well as utilizing agricultural, industrial, and food waste to produce new materials and products. This limits the quantities of waste directed to landfills and opens the door for new economic activities.
The roadmap supports curbing food loss and waste, and enhancing the utilization of agricultural and food residues by converting them into fodder, fertilizers, biogas, and other usable products. The National Food Security Strategy also aims to reduce food loss and waste by 50% by 2030.
The circular economy is an economic, investment, and developmental driver in various countries around the world, and it is imperative to activate this national roadmap at the local level with utmost seriousness and professionalism. It is also important to benefit from global experiences in this field to achieve significant added value to Jordan's Gross Domestic Product. The circular economy contributes to creating investment opportunities that provide numerous and broad job opportunities across all sectors nationwide, something we are in dire need of. May God protect Jordan.
