AquaSPICE project & University of Huddersfield
The “Industrial Wastes Matchmaking Tool” is a digital tool designed to alleviate the information barrier that exists between business-as-usual and the Industrial Symbiosis paradigm, with an emphasis on financial benefits as a driver for Industrial Symbiosis.
The tool provides an abundance of results, valuable to multiple stakeholders/occasions. On the “Global” scale it provides a very concise picture of financial performance, transaction mass flows and environmental benefits, that effectively provide the user with a much more tangible “rendering” of IS’s impact, clearly motivating towards its implementation.
Putting proportional emphasis on the “Individual” set of results—since it is the decision-making on the individual level that can eventually create a symbiotic network—similar financial, mass flow and environmental information are provided, illustrating a compelling case in favour of implementing IS. Strategic emphasis is put on the “waste stream” level as, realistically considering, any kind of intervention (e.g., addition of a material recovery apparatus) will be performed in this level. Therefore, providing a decision-maker of an industrial unit with such detailed and relevant information facilitates the implementation of the corresponding intervention.
Result of the Horizon 2020 project ULTIMATE: indUstry water-utiLiTy symbIosis for a sMarter wATer society
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