Eco-industrial park

Eco-industrial park

An eco-industrial park (EIP) is an industrial park in which businesses cooperate with each other and with the local community in an attempt to reduce waste and pollution, efficiently share resources (such as information, materials, water, energy, infrastructure, and natural resources), and help achieve sustainable development, with the intention of increasing economic gains and improving environmental quality.

The Eco-industrial Park Handbook defines EIPs as"An Eco-Industrial Park is a community of manufacturing and service businesses located together on a common property. Members seek enhanced environmental, economic, and social performance through collaboration in managing environmental and resource issues."

"Industrial symbiosis" is a related but more limited concept in which companies in a region collaborate to utilize each other's by-products and otherwise share resources. In Kalundborg, Denmark a symbiosis network links a 1500MW coal fired power plant with the community and other companies. Surplus heat from this power plant is used to heat 3500 local homes in addition to a nearby fish farm, whose sludge is then sold as a fertilizer. Steam from the power plant is sold to Novo Nordisk, a pharmaceutical and enzyme manufacturer, in addition to a Statoil plant. This reuse of heat reduces the amount thermal pollution discharged to a nearby fjord. Additionally, a by-product from the power plant's sulfur dioxide scrubber contains gypsum, which is sold to a wallboard manufacturer. Almost all of the manufacturer's gypsum needs are met this way, which reduces the amount of open-pit mining needed. Furthermore, fly ash and clinker from the power plant is utilized for road building and cement production. [J. Ehrenfeld and N. Gertler(1997), "Industrial Ecology in Practice. The Evolution of Interdependence at Kalundborg","Journal of Industrial Ecology", 1:1, pp 67-79]

The industrial symbiosis at Kalundborg was not created as a top-down initiative, but instead evolved gradually. As environmental regulations became stricter, firms were motivated reduce the cost of compliance, and turn their by-products into economic products.

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ee also

* EcoPark - EIP in Hong-Kong
* Industrial Ecology
* Industrial Symbiosis
* Kalundborg Eco-industrial Park

External links

* [http://www.indigodev.com/Ecoparks.html Indigo Development Eco-Industrial Park page and handbook]
* [http://gei.ucsc.edu/eco-industrial_parks.html Existing and Developing Eco-Industrial Park Sites in the U.S.]
* [http://www.earthportal.org/?p=364 Industrial Symbiosis Timeline]
* [http://environment.yale.edu/topics/4951/industrial_symbiosis_in_action/ Industrial Symbiosis in Action]
* [http://www.zeri.org/ Zero Emissions Research & Initiatives]


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