During year 2016, after the successful closure of the RECOICE project, we took part to another European Project;
We are part of an important european consortium of corporates and research centers (between them, for example, the University of Hamburg). Our objective is to successfully complete the new European Project, named DECISIVE, or "A DECentralIzed management Scheme for Innovative Valorization of urban biowastE".
Project Introduction
The growing attractiveness of cities leads to increasing population,
thus rising energetic and food demands in urban areas. This makes urban waste
management increasingly challenging, both in terms of logistics and
environmental or health impacts.
To decrease the cities’ environmental impacts and to contribute to a
better resilience of urban areas towards energy or food supply crisis, waste
management systems have to be improved to increase recycling of resources and
local valorization.
In this context, the DECISIVE project proposes to change the present
urban metabolism for organic matter (foods, plants, etc.), energy and biowaste
to a more circular economy and to assess the impacts of these changes on the
whole waste management cycle. Thus, the challenge will be to shift from a urban
“grey box”, implying mainly goods importation and extra-urban waste management,
to a cooperative organization of intra- and peri-urban networks enabling
circular local and decentralised valorization of biowaste, through energy and
bioproducts production. The project will result
in a number of tools and plans for supporting locally adapted decentralised
management schemes, as well as marketable, eco-designed and micro-scale
anaerobic digestion and solid-state fermentation treatment processes and units.
Project Introduction
The growing attractiveness of cities leads to increasing population, thus rising energetic and food demands in urban areas. This makes urban waste management increasingly challenging, both in terms of logistics and environmental or health impacts.
To decrease the cities’ environmental impacts and to contribute to a better resilience of urban areas towards energy or food supply crisis, waste management systems have to be improved to increase recycling of resources and local valorization.
In this context, the DECISIVE project proposes to change the present urban metabolism for organic matter (foods, plants, etc.), energy and biowaste to a more circular economy and to assess the impacts of these changes on the whole waste management cycle. Thus, the challenge will be to shift from a urban “grey box”, implying mainly goods importation and extra-urban waste management, to a cooperative organization of intra- and peri-urban networks enabling circular local and decentralised valorization of biowaste, through energy and bioproducts production. The project will result in a number of tools and plans for supporting locally adapted decentralised management schemes, as well as marketable, eco-designed and micro-scale anaerobic digestion and solid-state fermentation treatment processes and units.
