Are there benefits of biodegradable plastic packaging

UBA provides no environmental benefit of biodegradable plastic packaging

Packaging made of biodegradable plastics are not superior to those of conventional plastics.

This is the result of a study conducted by the Heidelberg Institute Ifeu which the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), Dessau, had been commissioned in 2010. They would biodegradable plastics for packaging which is made ​​from renewable resources, no overall environmental benefit. Through the cultivation and
processing of crops for this packaging acidified soils and eutrophic waters stronger than the production of conventional plastic packaging, according to the study. In addition, they incur higher particulate matter emissions. Also increasingly offered Biokunststofftüten would not have any environmental advantage.

⇒ read the full article in issue 41/2012 of EUWID packaging. So again, Are there benefits of biodegradable plastic packaging?

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