Ball, Peter David orcid.org/0000-0002-1256-9339, Badakhshan, Ehsan, Bell, Joseph et al. (5 more authors) (2023) Urban agrifood circularity: exploring consumable and capital micro circular production loops. In: Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing. , Buenos Aires, Argentina
Abstract
The circular economy concept is typically applied at scale, especially for high value products and materials. The dominant manufacturing model is for large global factories with research and practice independent of agriculture. This paper challenges the dominant “big is beautiful” ethos and explores how agricultural and industrial production can operate at local, urban scale with wastes circulating for consumable and capital production. The research case is a UK city where food wastes could be used for food production and beverage production waste could be used to produce building materials. The research explores the industrial symbiosis engineering challenge of small-scale waste conversion and the digital challenge of identifying and measuring waste flows for conversion. In considering waste conversions through local, distributed manufacture this paper also tackles the digital challenge of how to source local, small volume material flow data for optimization. Future potential research avenues of micro manufacture as well as digital twins are discussed.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the University’s Research Publications and Open Access policy. |
Keywords: | circular economy, urban manufacturing, distributed manufacturing, industrial symbiosis, digital |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > The York Management School |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (STFC) R24686 STFC Food Network main award BBSRC (BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL) BB/V004581/1 EPSRC EP/T024844/1 |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 15 Dec 2023 17:40 |
Last Modified: | 10 Jan 2025 00:12 |
Status: | Published |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:206683 |
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