Circular economy meets the drawdown economy: Enhanced weathering of industrial solid waste as a win-win solution

The SWAN platform is an integrated suite of online resources and tools for assessing industrial symbiotic opportunities based on solid industrial waste reuse. It has been developed as a digital solid waste reuse platform and is already applied in four countries (Greece, Bulgaria, Albania and Cyprus). The SWAN platform integrates a database with the spatial and technical characteristics of industrial solid waste producers and potential consumers, populated with data from these countries. It also incorporates an inventory of commercially implemented best practices on solid industrial waste reuse. The role of the SWAN platform is to facilitate the development of novel business cases. Towards this end, decision support services, based on a suitable matching algorithm, are provided to the registered users, helping them to identify and assess potential novel business models, based on solid waste reuse, either for an individual industrial unit (source/potential receiver of solid waste) or a specific region.

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Municipal solid waste-to-energy processing for a circular economy in New Zealand

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews ◽

10.1016/j.rser.2021.111080 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 145 ◽

pp. 111080

Author(s):

M.T. Munir ◽

Ahmad Mohaddespour ◽

A.T. Nasr ◽

Susan Carter

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Municipal Solid Waste ◽

Solid Waste ◽

Circular Economy ◽

Waste To Energy ◽

Energy Processing

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High industrial solid waste road base course binder: Performance regulation, hydration characteristics and practical application

Journal of Cleaner Production ◽

10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127879 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 127879

Author(s):

Deqiang Zhao ◽

Bingliu Zhang ◽

Weiguo Shen ◽

Miaomiao Wu ◽

Yecheng Guan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Solid Waste ◽

Practical Application ◽

Industrial Solid Waste ◽

Road Base ◽

Base Course ◽

Hydration Characteristics

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Poland’s Proposal for a Safe Solution of Waste Treatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Circular Economy Connection

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app11093939 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (9) ◽

pp. 3939

Author(s):

Krzysztof Pikoń ◽

Nikolina Poranek ◽

Adrian Czajkowski ◽

Beata Łaźniewska-Piekarczyk

Keyword(s):

Thermal Treatment ◽

Waste Management ◽

Municipal Solid Waste ◽

Solid Waste ◽

Economic Impact ◽

Circular Economy ◽

Waste Treatment ◽

Management Systems ◽

Waste Streams

The purpose of the study presented in this text is to show the influence of COVID-19 on waste management systems and circular economy stream, and their impact on circular economy, particularly the economic impact of the pandemic on the waste management sector, impact on circular economy objectives’ implementation as well as additional challenges like the need for hygienization of waste streams during different implementation efforts, such as changes in the municipal solid waste market and different waste processes of their disposal. Additionally, some methods—such as thermal treatment—which seemed to be not fully aligned with the circular economy approach have advantages not taken into account before. Incineration of higher volume of waste affects the waste structure and will change some of the circular economy objectives. The analysis was carried out on the example of the Polish market.

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