BENEFITS FROM CIRCULAR BIO ECONOMY by Anne Holl Hansen| ahh@guldborgsund.dk
Guldborgsund Municipality finds great value in working with circular bio economy as a foundation for new, local, climate friendly, bio value chains and for creating new local production and job places. Furthermore, circular bio economy strengthens bonds and positive interdependency between urban and rural areas.
directly as an organic feed, or proteins can be extracted from them in order to optimize feed mixes. Another theme is development and documentation of extraction methods of high value ingredients from agricultural residues. Local enterprises and organizations are deeply involved in translating this knowledge into practice.
Biomass from fields and sea provide food, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, materials, cleaning agents and green energy. Biomass-based production in rural areas can make daily needs, also for urban citizens with a modern life style, who make sustainable choices from food to household cleaning agents or personal care products - all non-fossil and with low CO2 footprint.
Through an applied international project, Guldborgsund aims at multiple services offered by “Low emission agriculture”. This high biodiversity and carbon sequestering farm practice, that makes the soil more robust to heavy rain and drought by increasing the water retention capacity, may also be interesting for urban areas sensitive to hinterland surface water.
As the circular bio economy depends on the return of nutrients to the soil from all biological waste streams, including urban bio waste, that is why it is a rural-urban joint venture. The Municipality is dedicated to support the transition to a green circular bio economy through Global Covenant of Mayors commitment and by participating in projects and programmes that capture new knowledge, ready to implement into green cascade production and business symbioses. In cascade production high value ingredients are extracted from agricultural residuals, i.e. residual remains from one business become a resource for another. At the end, biogas production adds to the list of bio value chain products, and nutrients from digested biomass are returned to the soil for new plant production. Our project themes include larvae production on a media of beach cast and agricultural residues. The larvae can be used
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Guldborgsund Municipality has appointed a dedicated committee to focus on sustainable development, including UN’s 17 sustainable development goals.