Mapping of Material, Energy, and Waste Flows in the Industrial Zones of Vitoria-Gasteiz
Mapping of material, water, and energy consumption, identification of recoverable waste, and proposals for synergies between companies. The potential for circularity and its economic, environmental, and social impacts are calculated from the detected inflow and outflow.
Location
Vitoria-Gasteiz (Álava)
Year of Start
2022
Promoter
Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council
Participants
Companies in the industrial zones of Vitoria-Gasteiz; Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council; SÍMBIOSY
Objective
The Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council is promoting a strategic plan to move towards a more circular, efficient, and resilient territory. The project stems from the need to understand, with precise data, how the municipality’s industrial companies consume and generate resources, in order to identify opportunities for improvement and collaboration.
SÍMBIOSY is developing a comprehensive mapping of material, water, and energy flows in the city’s industrial zones, analyzing both input resources (consumption) and output resources (waste and surplus energy). This analysis makes it possible to detect industrial waste with recovery potential, as well as opportunities for these materials and flows to become new resources within the territory itself.
The project also incorporates the identification of potential synergies between companies, evaluating their technical, logistical, and economic viability, and estimating the environmental and social impacts they could generate.
The initiative is a key step in guiding public policies, prioritizing investments, and designing future industrial symbiosis actions in Vitoria-Gasteiz.
Results obtained
- Detailed identification of inflows in the industrial fabric: materials, water, and energy.
- Identification and quantification of outflows: material waste, by-products, and surplus energy.
- Classification of waste with recovery potential and opportunities to convert it into new resources.
- Synergy proposals between companies and agents in the territory, with a preliminary technical-economic analysis.
- Calculation of the circularity potential of the synergies detected.
- Estimation of the economic, environmental, and social impacts associated with its implementation.
- Strategic basis for developing collaborative projects in the city’s industrial parks.
To highlight
- Pioneering project in the territorial analysis of industrial flows in Vitoria-Gasteiz.
- Methodology based on real data obtained directly from companies.
- Key tool for guiding municipal policy in circular economy.
- Structured identification of opportunities with high potential for impact on the territory.
- Direct contribution to the strategy of ecological transition and competitiveness of the industrial fabric.
