The library of case studies is a collection of cards containing relevant information (mainly related to the tacit knowledge content) about different case studies available in literature.
The library of case studies allows companies to find out how industrial symbiosis can help them facing some of their operational challenges, whether they are directly or indirectly related to waste management. In addition, it can help them understanding the effort (additional analysis, projects or investments) needed to effectively implement industrial symbiosis and how and when third-party facilitators can help.
This is the structure used to describe each case:
The National Industrial Symbiosis Programme in the UK acted for several years as a facilitator to create several symbiotic exchanges across the whole Country. In this specific case, it helped…
The "PODEBA - Use of poultry dejections for the bathing phase in the tanning industry" project was led by the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment…
The industrial cluster of Kwinana, in Australia, is one of the biggest and most diverse heavy industries concentration in the Country. The industrial cluster was founded in the 1950s and…
The industrial town of Landskrona in South-West Sweden is the first example of official Industrial Symbiosis programme implementation in its Country, initiated in 2003. The area includes more than twenty…
The two neighbouring towns of Nanjangud and Mysore in the state of Karnataka, South India, host a large and diverse group of industrial companies, including both small and large, multinational…
Nanning Sugar Co., Ltd. is one of the largest sugar corporations in China, based in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (Guangxi province in Southern Central China). Over the past decades,…
The Hamburger Rieger GmbH paper mill in Spremberg, Germany, has been working since 2005. A few years later, in 2008, it started a partnership with an energy production company to…
The Iskenderun Bay in Turkey is an industrial area covering the municipalities of Adana, Merson, Iskenderun and Osmaniye. It includes companies from several different industrial sectors among which mining and…
The Monfort Boys Town Integrated Biosystem is a symbiotic system involving the municipality of Suva and companies located within the area of the Fiji’s capital city. The system mainly involves…
The Research Triangle Park, in the Triangle J Region, North Carolina (United States) is a large geographical region in which 182 companies have been connected by the means of symbiotic…