BioSinn Project found products for which biodegradation makes makes ecological sense

The BioSinn Project, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, has found products and applications for which biodegradation at the end-of-life is a real option. The selection criteria were that collecting the products (or their remaining parts), separating them from other organic waste or material recycling is not possible, economically not feasible or does not take place in practice. Project experts from the Nova Institute from Hürth near Cologne together with project partner Institut für Kunststofftechnik at the University of Stuttgart (IKT Stuttgart) and a project advisory board made up of representatives from industry, academia and politics, were able to identify 25 applications on this basis for which biodegradability is actually a sensible end-of-life option.

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