Descripción del proyecto
Una revolución circular para la gestión de los residuos urbanos
El rápido crecimiento de las ciudades trae consigo una creciente demanda de energía, alimentos y sistemas eficientes de gestión de residuos. En este contexto, el equipo del proyecto DECISIVE, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende transformar la gestión de los residuos urbanos en una economía circular. Mediante la aplicación de tecnologías innovadoras, como redes de gestión descentralizadas y procesos de fermentación ecodiseñados, el objetivo de DECISIVE es hacer frente a las repercusiones logísticas, ambientales y sanitarias de la gestión de residuos en zonas urbanas. Este cambio de paradigma fomentará la integración entre zonas urbanas y periurbanas. El equipo del proyecto tiene por objeto pasar de un sistema de residuos dependiente de las importaciones y gestionado externamente a una red cooperativa que permita la valorización descentralizada de los biorresiduos. Con su enfoque integral, en el proyecto se promete revolucionar la gestión de residuos en beneficio de las ciudades en crecimiento de todo el mundo.
Objetivo
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. Such a new waste management paradigm is expected to increase the sustainability of urban development by: (1) promoting citizens awareness about waste costs and values; (2) promoting renewable energy production and use in the city; (3) developing an industrial ecology approach that can promote the integration between urban and peri-urban areas, by providing valuable agronomic by-products for urban agriculture development and so improving the balance of organic products and waste in the city; (4) developing new business opportunities and jobs. In order to achieve these objectives, the project DECISIVE will develop and demonstrate, at real scale, eco-innovative solutions addressed to waste operators and public services, consisting in: (1) a decision support tool to plan, design and assess efficient decentralised management networks for biowaste in urban areas; (2) eco-designed solid-state fermentation processes. Moreover in parallel of real scale demonstration sites, an eco-designed new micro-anaerobic digestion process will be developed and tested.
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecycling
- engineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediationbioreactors
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energy
- engineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybiomaterials
- engineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybioprocessing technologiesfermentation
Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
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H2020-WASTE-2015-two-stage
Régimen de financiación
IA - Innovation actionCoordinador
75007 Paris
Francia