On Wednesday 16th June, it was organized a workshop of Industrial Symbiosis under the framework of EU Circular Talks of the European Circular Economy Stakeholders Platform (ECESP). For the organisation of this event, ECESP has been supported by EIT Community Circular Economy and Circlean. The “Industrial Symbiosis: A tool for the Green Deal” event has the aim of defining the current main challenges and possible actions to overcome them.
The main challenges and possible solution actions will be focused in three main areas:
- Innovation: how to further support development, demonstration and implementation of technological solutions to facilitate IS, including knowledge base for IS.
- Policy options: how policy could further support IS implementation through for example incorporating IS concept in the IED, supporting use of secondary materials, increasing costs for landfill use, to clarify procedure for “end of waste” criteria, etc.
- Market: right knowledge of potential market including right reporting procedures and market barriers are essential aspects.
Under the initial presentations of this workshop, Mira-Maria Kontkanen (ECESP Representative) showed INSIGHT project as a success example of Industrial Symbiosis project for promoting this new business model which could reach a more sustainable and integrated industrial system, which identifies business opportunities that leverage underutilised resources (such as materials, energy, water, capacity, expertise, assets etc.).