A Concise Guide to Planning and Implementing Industrial Symbiosis Initiatives

This guide presents a recommended approach to planning and implementing circular economy initiatives and transitions in organizations, considering the industrial and cross-sectoral symbioses as one way of implementing circular resource flows. This guide is therefore mostly aimed at companies engaged in manufacturing. This guide is based on our many years of practical experience of building the world’s leading industrial symbiosis, Kalundborg Symbiosis in Denmark, as well as on practice-oriented theory from other sources. The audience for this guide is mostly aimed at decision makers in manufacturing companies who have taken an active decision to change their organizations’ operations toward the circular economy and are looking for experience-based guidance on how to get started with this transition