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…STYRIA… By-Product Recycling
Network
Jordi Oliva, Julián Patrón, Andrea Díaz | MS. Sustainability – Industrial Ecology
Trust is an important determinant
factor of knowledge transfer in
company recycling networks.
STYRIA… By-Product Recycling Network
2nd largest federal state 16.388 mk2 (Barcelona x 2,2)
STYRIA
AUSTRIA
Graz
Population 1.203.986 in 2006 (Barcelona / 4,5)
14,5% vots of Bundesrat
STYRIA… By-Product Recycling Network
MIDDLE AGES
Under the hegemony of Charlemagne becomes a part of Carinthia, against Slavs (800 CE)
Different family rulers dinasties, including rulers of Austria-Hungary, and invasions by Otomans and Turks
DARK AGESSettlement by Slavs in the Dark Age (600 CE)
Several tribes while roman
MODERN ERA
Semmering Railway, completed in 1854
Divisions because of the war(Yogoslavia, Slovenia, Germany…)
STYRIA… By-Product Recycling Network
March of Styria in the Duchy of Carinthia (970 CE)
The Green March (50% forests, 25% meadows, grasslands, vineyards and orchards)
STYRIA… By-Product Recycling Network
Wine, soft coal and iron production
More densely-populated and productive mountain region in Europe for long
STYRIA… By-Product Recycling Network
Graz has always beenthe capital and economic
motor of the state
Recent shift away from production to services industry
STYRIA… By-Product Recycling Network
MAIN FACTS (oct 2009)
4,3% investment in R&D (Treat of Lisbon Goal 3%)
5 universities and leadingreasearch centres
25% of final energyconsumption is reneweable
70% recycling rate(higest in Europe)
3 pioneer region (solar, biomass, mat flow mangm)
3 internationally recognised“energy” regions
105 companies in renewables & environmental
8% in renewables & environmental techs
15,4% of growth in investment
22.943 employees in all thesecompanies
13.405 employees in renew. & environm. companies
18% growth in number of employees
42% of CO2 emissions savedby using their technology
STYRIA… By-Product Recycling Network
Styria… RECYCLING BACKGROUND
STYRIA… By-Product Recycling Network
2 austrian researchers wonder about Kalundborg (industrial symbiosis) and it’s
possible implementation in Styria. 1996
Why?... Decreasing energy/raw materials reserves and waste disposal
Starting point. 2 major enterprises
Results. a complex network of exchanges among 50 facilities
Industries. agriculture, food processing, plastics, fabrics, paper, energy, metal processing,
wood, construction
Situation. Plant managers weren’t aware of such network. It self-evolvedMotivation. Revenues from by-products sales and landfill dosposal cost savings
Styria… RECYCLING ACHIEVEMENTS
STYRIA… By-Product Recycling Network
Economic advantages for industrial companies
Savings on raw materials
Emission’s reduction
Extended landfills lifetime
Recycling Network through an interactive database
Styria… SOLUTIONS
STYRIA… By-Product Recycling Network
Biomass, biogas, biodiesel
Solar energy
material flow management
Water and wastewater
One of the most heavily
forested regions in Europe.
“biogenic raw material & e”
Commitment to energy
efficiency
STYRIA… By-Product Recycling Network
Biogas, biomass, biodiesel
Energy from nature
Styria… SOLUTIONS
Biomass
Technology
Waste or sewage
sludge into high quality and low-emissions fuel
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Combined heat
and power
generation in
households
Innovation: a
combined pellet
boiler that uses a stirling motor
Innovative
biodiesel
know-how
High-quality fuel
extracted from the
waste product “animal meal”.Biogenic materials
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Innovative
biogas
know-how
Training for bio-
gas experts. 50
model facilities in a 15-day course
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Intelligent solutions on
Solar energy
STYRIA… By-Product Recycling Network
Heating and refrigeration
Hot water preparation
Styria… SOLUTIONS
Leadership in
solar
refrigeration
ie. Solar power wine
1 2
Leadership in
Efficient solar
plants
Largest solar
plant in Central
Europe: 5.900sqt , pn 2500MWh, 3000 households
Leadership in
export
-“Renewable
energy house” in
Brussels
-2008 OlympicVillage in Beijing
(solar heating and
refrigeration tech)
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Total Solutions
A complete
central heating Station (combined
biomass and solar energy utilisation)
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A model region for
material flow management
that is actually translated
into action.
STYRIA… By-Product Recycling Network
raw materials for new valuable products
materials recycled
Styria… SOLUTIONS
Leadership in
extracting fuel
from waste
Waste or sewage
sludge into high
quality and low-emissions fuel
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Turnkey waste
solutions
Waste collection
and recycling -logistics
Shredding and
composting bio-
waste
One company
succeeded based
on mechanical
and mechanical-biological processes
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Glass recycling
Innovative
Optoelectronic sorting of bulk
materials,
specially glass recycling
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Water as source of life,
special significance –
Alpine region
STYRIA… By-Product Recycling Network
Water and wastewater
Treating sewage sludge
Styria… SOLUTIONS
Leadership in
sewage sludge
dehydration
Plants and
systems for
industrial and municipal sludge
drying and dehydration
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Sustainable
water utilisation
Knowledge
center with more
than 45 current projects (from
tunnel
construction to thermal water)
Dissemination of
solutions
Precursor position
by many facilities put into operation
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Industrial Ecology, and more specific, Industrial Symbiosis is not only related to companies
that produce solutions and close material-energy loops while working together. Symbiosis
involves citizens efforts and compromise when achieving sustainable states.
STYRIA… By-Product Recycling Network
Conclusions
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Interesting cases in Industrial Ecology show that not only from planned strategies is possible
the evolution of recycling networks – symbiosis. Self-evolving approaches to ecology-
economy as Styria Recycling Network, represents the confirmation of “natural” or
“necessary” approaches to a new Cities Development.
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Searching information on this subject (recycling networking) remains difficult if you are not
an expert in the field. Important cases, as it seems to be, should be promoted with a bigger
effort if a Network of Knowledge and Experience is one of the main objectives of institutions
and individuals worldwide.
Connecting living spaces, people and technological progress, requires action from
government, industries, science and communities that stablish common priorities and
develop synergy that should be evaluated.
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Nakamura, S., & Kondo, Y. (2009). Waste input-output analysis :Concepts and application to
industrial ecology. New York: Springer.
STYRIA… By-Product Recycling Network
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