Industrial solid waste flow analysis of eco-industrial parks: implications for sustainable waste management in China

doi:10.1007/s11783-011-0344-0

Front Envir Sci Eng

2012, Vol. 6

Issue (4) : 575-587 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-011-0344-0

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Industrial solid waste flow analysis of eco-industrial parks: implications for sustainable waste management in China

Yongpeng Lü^1,2, Kai YANG¹(

), Yue CHE¹, Zhaoyi SHANG¹, Jun TAI^1,3, Yun JIAN⁴

1. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urbanization and Ecological Restoration, School of Resources and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China; 2. Shanghai Municipal Engineering Design Institute, Shanghai 200092, China; 3. Shanghai Institute for Design & Research in Environmental Engineering, Shanghai 200232, China; 4. Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA

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Abstract

Sustainable waste management in the industrial ecology perspective brings enormous challenges to the existing methodology of waste analysis at the industrial park (IP) scale. In this study, a four-step method was proposed for industrial solid waste (ISW) flow analysis of eco-industrial parks (EIPs) and applied to two IPs in eastern China. According to a park-wide census of 619 industrial enterprises and 105 questionnaires by a survey from 2006 to 2008, the results indicated that: 1) at the enterprise scale, more than 60% of enterprises were small-ISW-generation enterprises which encountered great difficulties on effective waste management; 2) at the IP scale, though the two IPs have set up their own environmental management systems and passed the ISO 14001 certification, the efficiencies of the ISW management systems have yet to be improved in the industrial ecology perspective; and 3) at the regional scale, more than 97% of ISW flowed within the provincial region, indicating that the provincial governments prevented the wastes from flowing into their own “back yard”. Effective waste management should be placed in a broader perspective. Approaches to sustainable waste management may include wastes exchange, efficient waste and information flow, virtual EIP, waste minimization clubs and regionalization of waste management.

Keywords industrial solid waste waste flow analysis eco-industrial parks sustainable waste management “not in my back yard”

Corresponding Author(s): YANG Kai,Email:kyang@re.ecnu.edu.cn

Issue Date: 01 August 2012

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Yongpeng Lü,Kai YANG,Yue CHE, et al. Industrial solid waste flow analysis of eco-industrial parks: implications for sustainable waste management in China[J]. Front Envir Sci Eng, 2012, 6(4): 575-587.

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Fig.1 General framework of the ISWFAM methodology under uncertainty

Fig.2 Industrial solid waste flow with information flow and fund flow

Fig.3 Typology of industrial solid waste flow of eco-industrial park

Fig.4 EIPs in Shanghai and location of the two case EIPs. Note: source from MEP (2010)

Tab.1 Important features of the case EIPs

Tab.2 Composition of ISW generated by the enterprises of the two EIPs in 2008

Tab.3 Composition of hazardous wastes generated by the enterprises of the two EIPs in 2008

Fig.5 Distribution of ISW export (a) and import (b) of the two EIPs at the enterprise scale in 2008

Fig.6 Relationship between ISW generation and industrial output at the enterprise scale in 2008: (a) scatter for WFTZ; (b) scatter for SXIP; (c) distribution

Fig.7 Distribution of ISW export (a) and import (b) of the two EIPs at the industry-sector scale in 2008 the capital letters indicate the industrial sectors in China mentioned in section 2.1

Fig.8 Industrial solid waste flow at the enterprise scale (a) and industrial park scale (b) in the two EIPs in 2008

Tab.4 Industrial solid waste flow between main industry sectors in the two EIPs in 2008

Fig.9 Industrial solid waste flow at the regional scale in the two EIPs in 2008: (a) ISWF for SXIP; (b) ISWF for WFTZ; (c) cumulative frequency of ISWF for SXIP; (d) cumulative frequency of ISWF for WFTZ

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