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Optimizing the Efficiency of Resource Exchange in Industrial Symbiosis (IS)

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Responsible Consumption and Production

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Chertow defines the engagement of traditionally separated and geographically proximate industries in a collective approach to obtain a competitive advantage through the physical exchange of materials, energy, water, and by-products as industrial symbiosis (Chertow 2000).

Introduction

Industrial symbiosis (IS) has been emerged as an effective approach for collaborating industries to exchange resources (Boons et al. 2014). Empirical studies reveal that IS replicates the behaviors of natural ecosystems in which waste from one organism becomes a resource for another (Grant et al. 2010; Milani et al. 2018). As the profound definition in literature, IS engages the separate entities in a collective approach to gain a competitive advantage by involving physical exchange of materials, energy, water, and by-products (Chertow 2007). IS is an industrial network that cooperatively increase their reuse of resources among different industries for economic, environmental, and social...

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    Harshini Mallawaarachchi & Gayani Karunasena

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Mallawaarachchi, H., Karunasena, G., Sandanayake, Y. (2020). Optimizing the Efficiency of Resource Exchange in Industrial Symbiosis (IS). In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) Responsible Consumption and Production. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71062-4_52-1

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