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Saccharide Agenda

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https://www.chemport.eu/downloads/

Saccharide Agenda

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Chemport Europe
Publication Date: 
09/2020
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Netherlands

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Saccharides are a valuable and readily available source of renewable carbon. There are unique opportunities to produce renewable intermediate chemicals and polymers from regionally available agricultural products and imported feedstock in the period up to 2050.

Industry in the Chemport region (Northern Netherlands) has several options to further reduce CO2 emissions, including recycling or circular chemistry and shifting towards bio-based feedstock, acting as a catalyzer for other industries.

Important focus areas of the saccharide roadmap are:

  1. developing technologies/markets
  2. strengthening/expanding feedstock production
  3. developing incentives/regulations
  4. further developing an integrated approach, cooperating and improving the knowledge base.

Zero Waste: problems become opportunities

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https://interregmedgreengrowth.eu/white-papers/

Zero waste: problems become opportunities in Waste Prevention & Management - a White Paper by Interreg MED's Green Growth community

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Interreg MED Green Growth Community
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CT BETA, University of Vic – Central University of Catalonia, Fondazione Ecosistemi, Regional Council of Durrës, Albania, Dynamic Vision, Greece, University Consortium for Industrial and Managerial Economics (CUEIM), Italy
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09/2019
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Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, United Kingdom, Other (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro)

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Mercè Boy Roura
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The third of the four Thematic Working Groups created by the Interreg MED's Green Growth community addressed waste reduction, prevention and management.

This White Paper promotes solutions to reduce organic (livestock) and inorganic waste, and maps technologies, systems, and strategies for proper waste management. It illustrates issues - e.g. over-production/application of high-nitrogen slurry and manure and need to treat it, as well as lack of treatment of agrifood waste - and highlights the projects’ contributions to achieve full use of resources through their life cycle to create a circular economy.

Among the results: policy guidelines based on four Struvite Precipitation (SP) plants to stimulate innovation and set up a common legal framework for struvite as fertilizer.

http://www.enrich.ie/

Enrich: compost - circular economy in action

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Enrich Environmental Ltd.
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Ireland

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Enrich manufactures organic compost in an open windrow system using source segregated green waste such as garden clippings and landscaping materials.

https://lifereforest.com/

Life Reforest: mycotechnosoils developed from waste, could bring burnt forest areas back to life

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CETIM Technological Center

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Spain

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LIFE REFOREST is a project funded by the LIFE Programme that aims to mitigate the soil loss associated with post-fire episodes in forest areas.

https://bit.ly/3akaPqb

VALOR - Valorisation Alternatives to Landfill for Organic Residues

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Dublin City University

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Ireland

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The Dublin City University VALOR project is investigating potential recovery options for the Organic Fraction of the Municipal Solid Waste (OFMSW) and Bio-Stabilised residual waste (BSRW). The project fully diagnoses the recovery options for municipal solid waste and validates their use by determining their benefits and potential environmental risks.

https://www.smartlahti.fi/content/kujala-waste-symbiosis/

Kujala waste symbiosis in Smart and Clean Lahti

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Lahti Region Development LADEC Ltd

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Finland

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The Finnish city of Lahti has been pioneering industrial symbiosis at the Kujala Waste Treatment Centre where all sorts of waste are reused. Several companies have established interconnected material flows, thus making one’s residues another one’s raw materials. 

http://www.eurocities.eu/eurocities/documents/Full-Circle-cities-and-the-circula...

Lyon Metropole regenerates brownsites into fertile ground

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Lyon Metropole

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France

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Lyon Métropole, which includes 59 municipalities and 1 300 000 inhabitants, wants to build a sustainable future for its citizens. The Métropole relies on green investments to face environmental challenges. Lyon is also committed to building circular solutions for the region and has been recognised as a ‘zero waste territory’ (territoire zéro déchet, zéro gaspillage) since 2015.