Humans generate millions of tons of waste every day. This waste
is rich in water, nutrients, energy and organic compounds. Yet
waste is not being managed in a way that permits us to derive value
from its reuse, whilst millions of farmers struggle with depleted
soils and lack of water. This book shows how resource recovery and
reuse (RRR) could create livelihoods, enhance food security,
support green economies, reduce waste and contribute to cost
recovery in the sanitation chain.
While many RRR projects depend on subsidies and hardly survive
their pilot phase, hopeful signs of viable approaches to RRR are
emerging around the globe including low-and middle-income
countries. Many of these new commercial pathways are being charted
in the informal sector, delivering innovative approaches for
cost-recovery. These enterprises or projects are tapping into
entrepreneurial initiatives and public-private partnerships,
leveraging private capital to help realize commercial and/or social
value, shifting the focus from treatment for waste disposal to
treatment of waste as a valuable resource for safe reuse.
The book provides a compendium of these success stories of
resource recovery and reuse. It presents for energy, nutrient and
water recovery innovative business models based on approximately 70
empirical cases from around the world, each described and evaluated
in a systematic way. The focus is on municipal or agro-industrial
waste and models with potential for large-scale out- and
up-scaling. For each model, safety concerns and risk mitigation
measures are highlighted. This is the first book on business models
and their enabling environment for the reuse-oriented sanitation
sector.
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