The Digest’s 2016 8-Slide Guide to Industrial Symbiosis

Around the world today, we have some examples of integrated industrial systems — where communities reduce waste and consumption through a connected overall design that delivers the wastes from one industrial process as the feedstock of another, and where homes are integrated into the overall design so that no-energy and low-energy homes use the same strategies. Kalundborg, Denmark is the shining example, and worth a look if you don’t mind the blustery conditions west of Copenhagen.

We have come illustrated industrial symbioses worth knowing in the profiles below — with thanks for commentary from the projects themselves, Industrial Synergies, and this and this must-reads of progress in the field.