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Evolution of Local Environmental Economic Associations: Industrial Symbiosis

Industrial symbiosis is a voluntary cooperation of enterprises that aims to achieve collective benefits by leveraging each other’s wastes or by-products and sharing services and utilities. This paper investigates the cooperation and processes realized within the industrial networks based on the principles of industrial symbiosis in Denmark, Russia and Slovakia. The examples refer the wide range of benefits that this kind of cooperation brings. The identified cases contribute to the sustainable development of regions where they are localized

Blam I. Yu. inna@ieie.nsc.ru

Borsekova Kamila kamila.borsekova@umb.sk

Petrikova Katarina katarina.petrikova@umb.sk

Keywords: industrial symbiosis regional sustainable development eco-industrial park waste management

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