“Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Recover” summarizes the idea behind the circular economy. Symbiosis – collaboration between companies or sectors where waste or waste by-products become a resource for something else – is key to enabling business models that allow a shift towards a circular economy. Despite technical and institutional progress towards circularity, knowledge, market and policy gaps remain.
The classic view of Gdansk Old Town with the Hanseatic-style buildings and tourist sailing ship transports tourists across the River Motlawa to the Baltic Sea for a cruise, Poland. Photo: ewg3D / Getty Images.
Welcome to the second regional exchange and learning event hosted by BONUS RETURN. The workshop will address challenges experienced in establishing agricultural and industrial symbiosis to enable upscaling of circular solutions in the Baltic Sea Region. It will be an exchange between the project’s partners and local stakeholders, and a broader network including industry, government, the private sector and universities in the Baltic Sea Region.
Facilitated by David Nilsson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
This is an invite-only event.
Project / BONUS RETURN – reducing emissions by turning nutrients and carbon into benefits. The project focuses on turning waste into circular solutions for the Baltic Sea
Journal article / A systematic map protocol for a study of evidence on ecotechnologies for recovery and reuse of carbon and nutrients.
Feature / It is important to improve how we capture and reuse phosphorus. It should be on land to produce food rather than letting it enter the sea where it causes harm.
