gd styria recycling network

…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


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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…)


March of Styria in the Duchy of Carinthia (970 CE)

The Green March (50% forests, 25% meadows, grasslands, vineyards and orchards)


Wine, soft coal and iron production

More densely-populated and productive mountain region in Europe for long


Graz has always beenthe capital and economic

motor of the state

Recent shift away from production to services industry


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… RECYCLING BACKGROUND


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


Economic advantages for industrial companies

Savings on raw materials

Emission’s reduction

Extended landfills lifetime

Recycling Network through an interactive database

Styria… PRESENT SITUATION


Styria… SOLUTIONS


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


Biogas, biomass, biodiesel

Energy from nature

Styria… SOLUTIONS

Biomass

Technology

Waste or sewage

sludge into high quality and low-emissions fuel

1 2

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

3

Innovative

biogas

know-how

Training for bio-

gas experts. 50

model facilities in a 15-day course

4

Intelligent solutions on

Solar energy


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)

3

Total Solutions

A complete

central heating Station (combined

biomass and solar energy utilisation)

4

A model region for

material flow management

that is actually translated

into action.


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

1 2

Turnkey waste

solutions

Waste collection

and recycling -logistics

Shredding and

composting bio-

waste

One company

succeeded based

on mechanical

and mechanical-biological processes

3

Glass recycling

Innovative

Optoelectronic sorting of bulk

materials,

specially glass recycling

4

Water as source of life,

special significance –

Alpine region


Water and wastewater

Treating sewage sludge

Styria… SOLUTIONS

Leadership in

sewage sludge

dehydration

Plants and

systems for

industrial and municipal sludge

drying and dehydration

1 2

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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Styria… 2008 GROWTH


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.


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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industrial ecology. New York: Springer.


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