Each product of the plant secondary metabolism has its natural function in the environment. None of these products are accumulated in the environment. The ecologically adapted creation of biomass has never damaged the basis for biomass production. Scientists of the UPI Institute in Heidelberg expressed this singular quality of the production system 'biosphere' in impressing figures. But now the era of this type of chemistry is inevitably coming to an end.
Future chemistry has to model itself on the ideal of nature.
The foreseeable exhaustion of resources and dumps will simplify our decision at these crossroads between the two production strategies for our everyday chemical needs. Increasing numbers of small and medium sized companies have been starting to convert these principles of using biogenic raw material to practical usable products. They act as pioneers, but at the same time they are on the market with numerous innovative and competitive goods. Even the big companies of the chemical industry are starting to show interest. We all hope that the further development of plant chemistry will imitate the successful example of nature.