Industrial symbiosis potential and urban infrastructure capacity in Mysuru, India
If the material intensive enterprises in an urban area of several million people shared physical resources that might otherwise be wasted, what environmental and public benefits would result? This study develops an algorithm based on lifecycle assessment tools for determining a city’s industrial sym...
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| description | If the material intensive enterprises in an urban area of several million people shared physical resources that might otherwise be wasted, what environmental and public benefits would result? This study develops an algorithm based on lifecycle assessment tools for determining a city’s industrial symbiosis potential —that is, the sum of the wastes and byproducts from a city’s industrial enterprises that could reasonably serve as resource inputs to other local industrial processes. Rather than report, as do many previous papers, on private benefits to firms, this investigation focuses on public benefits to cities by converting the maximum quantity of resources recoverable by local enterprises into an estimate of the capacity of municipal infrastructure conserved in terms of landfill space and water demand. The results here test this novel approach for the district of Mysuru (Mysore), India. We find that the industrial symbiosis potential calculated based on analysis of the inputs and outputs of ∼1000 urban enterprises, translates into 84 000 tons of industrial waste, greater than 74 000 tons of CO _2 e, and 22 million liters per day of wastewater. The method introduced here demonstrates how industrial symbiosis links private production and public infrastructure to improve the resource efficiency of a city by creating an opportunity to extend the capacity of public infrastructure and generate public health co-benefits. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2fa37d65b9ef42339fd5d4fef3ab8c132023-08-09T14:43:49ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262019-01-0114707500310.1088/1748-9326/ab20edIndustrial symbiosis potential and urban infrastructure capacity in Mysuru, IndiaMarian Chertow0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4176-6224Matthew Gordon1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8241-3754Peter Hirsch2Anu Ramaswami3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0476-2315Yale University, CT 06520, United States of AmericaYale University, CT 06520, United States of AmericaEuropean Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Spitalfields, London, United KingdomHumphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States of AmericaIf the material intensive enterprises in an urban area of several million people shared physical resources that might otherwise be wasted, what environmental and public benefits would result? This study develops an algorithm based on lifecycle assessment tools for determining a city’s industrial symbiosis potential —that is, the sum of the wastes and byproducts from a city’s industrial enterprises that could reasonably serve as resource inputs to other local industrial processes. Rather than report, as do many previous papers, on private benefits to firms, this investigation focuses on public benefits to cities by converting the maximum quantity of resources recoverable by local enterprises into an estimate of the capacity of municipal infrastructure conserved in terms of landfill space and water demand. The results here test this novel approach for the district of Mysuru (Mysore), India. We find that the industrial symbiosis potential calculated based on analysis of the inputs and outputs of ∼1000 urban enterprises, translates into 84 000 tons of industrial waste, greater than 74 000 tons of CO _2 e, and 22 million liters per day of wastewater. The method introduced here demonstrates how industrial symbiosis links private production and public infrastructure to improve the resource efficiency of a city by creating an opportunity to extend the capacity of public infrastructure and generate public health co-benefits.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab20edsustainable citieslife cycle inventorybyproduct reuseindustrial wasteindustrial ecology |
| spellingShingle | Marian Chertow Matthew Gordon Peter Hirsch Anu Ramaswami Industrial symbiosis potential and urban infrastructure capacity in Mysuru, India Environmental Research Letters sustainable cities life cycle inventory byproduct reuse industrial waste industrial ecology |
| title | Industrial symbiosis potential and urban infrastructure capacity in Mysuru, India |
| title_full | Industrial symbiosis potential and urban infrastructure capacity in Mysuru, India |
| title_fullStr | Industrial symbiosis potential and urban infrastructure capacity in Mysuru, India |
| title_full_unstemmed | Industrial symbiosis potential and urban infrastructure capacity in Mysuru, India |
| title_short | Industrial symbiosis potential and urban infrastructure capacity in Mysuru, India |
| title_sort | industrial symbiosis potential and urban infrastructure capacity in mysuru india |
| topic | sustainable cities life cycle inventory byproduct reuse industrial waste industrial ecology |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab20ed |
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