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Area of Science:

  • Environmental Science
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Sustainability Studies

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  • Industrial Symbiosis (IS) facilitates collaboration between independent companies for resource exchange, reducing waste and supporting climate goals.
  • IS is increasingly recognized for environmental benefits, aligning with targets like 2050 climate neutrality, shifting focus from cost savings to ecological gains.
  • Current methods for assessing IS benefits often use a reductionist approach, analyzing individual enterprises and fragmenting the complex system.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address the limitations of reductionist methodologies in Industrial Symbiosis (IS) assessment.
  • To propose a novel redistribution approach for quantifying IS benefits systemically.
  • To reconcile the need for a holistic network perspective with the requirement to evaluate individual enterprise contributions and environmental gains.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a redistribution approach for assessing Industrial Symbiosis (IS) benefits.
  • Ensured individual enterprise improvements align with the overall network's rate of improvement.
  • Shifted the allocation of benefits and impacts from the Life Cycle Inventory to the Life Cycle Impact Assessment stage.

Main Results:

  • The proposed approach treats environmental benefits of IS as emergent properties of the composite network.
  • It enables a systemic evaluation of IS, capturing the interconnectedness of enterprises.
  • Provides a standardized method for quantifying benefits across the entire IS network and individual participants.

Conclusions:

  • The redistribution approach offers a more accurate and holistic assessment of Industrial Symbiosis (IS) benefits.
  • It overcomes the fragmentation inherent in reductionist methods.
  • Facilitates better understanding and quantification of IS contributions to environmental sustainability and climate neutrality goals.