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Conclusions so far

• BDP products have a very high sympathy factor and consumers are very satisfied with the products,
• the technology BDP is communicable and understood by the consumers,
• labeling and communicative measures so far have led to a slight decrease of misthrows in the organic waste bin.
• BDP composts do not differ from BDP-free quality assured RAL composts: They show the same fine fertilising effect.
• Consumers expect more products in BDP packaging!

 

The Role Model

For the development of the BDP packaging market, the Kassel model project is of importance: it shows that the BDP closed loop model can also work in practice (role model function). Product development has already been enhanced: The Kassel Model Project has initiated a number of new packaging developments.
Due to the positive results of the system, there is a good chance that this model system may now be introduced in other parts of Germany. If this can be managed, the competitive disadvantage towards fossil packaging plastics would decrease considerably due to the lower recovery costs: the disposal costs advantage should amount to about 1 Euro/ kg when compared to conventional packaging plastics. This would be a remarkable improvement to the total economic efficiency of BDP packaging in Germany (see fig.). The packaging market and the development of new improved BDP packaging products could thus be improved; making an impact on all other BDP application fields at the same time.

 

The future construction of larger production plants is expected to further improve the competitiveness of BDP by reducing the specific manufacturing costs.