The Development of Industrial Symbiosis Networks in Latvia

Riga Technical University 53rd International Scientific Conference: Dedicated to the 150th Anniversary and the 1st Congress of World Engineers and Riga Polytechnical Institute / RTU Alumni: Digest 2012
Anna Kubule, Marika Rošā

Industrial symbiosis seeks to improve the efficiency of industrial companies, by providing sustainable options for use of waste or by-product materials and energy. It is found that although of the absence of industrial symbiosis promoting policies, Latvian companies have for economic reasons created by-product exchange flows that are corresponding to the principles of industrial symbiosis. The main distinction of these exchanges is that the byproducts are used for manufacturing of high added value products and this is done closely to the origin of by-products. At the national level industrial symbiosis promotion mechanisms, in particular, voluntary mechanisms need to be implicated. National recognition of industrial symbiosis could advantage sustainable development of industry and overall economic development of Latvia.

Atslēgas vārdi
material flows, industrial symbiosis, wood processing industry
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http://scientific-conference2012.rtu.lv/sites/default/files/RTU_Conference_2012.pdf

Kubule, A., Rošā, M. The Development of Industrial Symbiosis Networks in Latvia. No: Riga Technical University 53rd International Scientific Conference: Dedicated to the 150th Anniversary and the 1st Congress of World Engineers and Riga Polytechnical Institute / RTU Alumni: Digest, Latvija, Riga, 11.-12. oktobris, 2012. Riga: RTU, 2012, 175.-175.lpp. ISBN 978-9934-10-360-5.

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