Descrizione del progetto
Una rivoluzione circolare per la gestione dei rifiuti urbani
La rapida crescita delle città porta con sé una crescente domanda di energia, cibo e sistemi efficienti di gestione dei rifiuti. In questo contesto, il progetto DECISIVE, finanziato dall’UE, si propone di trasformare la gestione dei rifiuti urbani in un’economia circolare. Applicando soluzioni innovative, come reti di gestione decentralizzate e processi di fermentazione eco-progettati, DECISIVE cerca di affrontare le ripercussioni logistiche, ambientali e sanitarie della gestione dei rifiuti nelle aree urbane. Questo cambiamento di paradigma favorirà l’integrazione fra queste ultime e le aree periurbane. Il progetto intende passare da un sistema di rifiuti importati e gestiti dall’esterno a una rete cooperativa che permetta la valorizzazione decentralizzata dei rifiuti organici. Grazie al suo approccio complessivo, il progetto promette di rivoluzionare la gestione dei rifiuti a beneficio delle città in crescita in tutto il mondo.
Obiettivo
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.
Campo scientifico
- 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
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H2020-WASTE-2015-two-stage
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