Industrial symbiosis helps cut carbon emissions and reduce waste

Industrial symbiosis is an efficient way for the energy and material-intensive facilities to spare resources as industrial companies work together to use the waste or by-products of one production process as the raw material for another.

For example, BASF uses the concept of Verbund – the intelligent interlinking of production plants, energy flws and infrastructure – to do this. Waste heat from one plant’s production process is used as energy in other plants. I

Gas and steam turbines in the BASF’s combined heat and power plants enabled the company to fulfill around 70% of its electricity demand.

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