This paper explores how policy makers want a transition towards circular economy to look like and what solutions they visualize, with a focus on the why(?) arguments. By analyzing the discourse in states official roadmaps towards circular economy, this study forms an understanding for what motivates a transition. The findings show that the possibilities for economic gains and the creation of new markets are the main purpose to change. In addition to that, whenever the survivability of humanity and the environment was arguments for a change, it in almost all cases came back to the economical outsets with such transition, how much money can be gained/saved.