{"id":1147,"date":"2017-06-29T10:53:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T09:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilmetgroup.be\/?page_id=1147\/"},"modified":"2022-08-01T10:31:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T09:31:51","slug":"industrial-ecology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wilmetgroup.be\/en\/1171-2\/the-principles-of-a-circular-economy\/industrial-ecology\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Ecology"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Industrial ecology is a notion and a recent practice of environment management aimed at limiting the impacts of industry on the environment.\u00a0 In concrete terms, it involves all of the practices intended to reduce industrial pollution.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Years of over-production, overconsumption and ingestion in treating waste have transformed the earth into a huge open-air landfill site.<\/p>\n<p>Pesticides, plastic residues, heavy metals and hydrocarbons are found in our soils, rivers and oceans poisoning our planet\u2019s fauna and flora.<\/p>\n<p>The time for alarming observations has past, it\u2019s time for action.<\/p>\n<p>The fundamental principle of industrial ecology is an optimisation at the level of company groups, territories, industries \u2026 of energy and material consumption, a minimisation of waste at source and a re-use of waste to be used as raw materials for other production processes.<\/p>\n<p>The factors for a successful industrial symbiosis are those of any natural system:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Diversity<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So that it is the most effective possible, company activities must be different and complementary, so as to use the largest amount of waste as resources for another<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Proximity<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It goes without saying that to respect the principle of an ecosystem the waste resources must be treated and used locally.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cooperation<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To allow the implementation of symbiosis, companies and their directors must develop, among parties, relations marked by cooperation, communication and mutual trust.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Industrial Ecology\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bk5vwFbGEP4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #2e9987;\"><strong>The Wilmet Group is making this ecological approach its hobby horse.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #2e9987;\"><strong>Our aim in the medium term is to become a reputed player in the local management of the flow of incoming &amp; outgoing materials within a short cycle.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #2e9987;\"><strong>To be able to provide our expertise in sorting, collecting, transforming and shipping these \u201crecycled raw materials\u201d.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #2e9987;\"><strong>To create synergies between neighbouring companies to find shared solutions in terms of energy consumption and material flow.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #2e9987;\"><strong>To allow companies to tackle the problem of waste head on by accompanying them in the different management processes.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #2e9987;\"><strong>Such are the future challenges of the Wilmet Group in the coming months and years.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industrial ecology is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilmetgroup.be\/en\/1171-2\/the-principles-of-a-circular-economy\/industrial-ecology\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2832,"parent":1143,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1147","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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