A financial and environmental sustainability of circular bioeconomy: A case study of short rotation coppice, biochar and greenhouse production in southern Finland

Luhas, Jukka; Miika, Marttila; Leppäkoski, Lauri; Mirja, Mikkilä; Uusitalo, Ville; Linnanen, Lassi

doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2022.106524

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“…Specifically, in Nordic countries, the biorefinery is seen as the way to achieve a CBE; e.g., in Denmark, the strategy to replace fossil fuels (natural gas and coal) is to increase the consumption of biomass by 10% per year until 2030 [30]. Thus, several alternatives were developed for the production of biofuels, such as biodiesel [31] or biogas [32] to replace natural gas, and wood pellets and chips to replace coal [31,33].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…On the contrary, the results demonstrate that the use of pure biomass is almost exclusively associated with biofuel production, such as biodiesel [47], biochar [33], and biogas for electricity and heat purposes [43,44,47], or the cultivation of biomass to serve as feedstock [65]. Only two recent studies used biomass to develop other high-added-value products (bio-based proteins [56,61]).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Other CBE sectors assessed by life cycle tools are aquaculture (the cultivation of algae [38,47,56,61], seagrass [43,44] and duckweed [54]), forestry [33], fishing [55], livestock [66], and paper production [34]. Other sectors often assessed in CBE are the treatment of the organic fraction of urban solid wastes [32,40,59,60] and urban wastewater and sewage [31,48,50]; these two activities are usually undertaken by municipalities or other government entities; hence, municipal wastes represent a great feedstock source for CBE.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The use of databases is even more centralized. Ecoinvent has a notorious predominance when compared with other databases, appearing in 71% of the studies (27 out of 38), and it is followed by the GaBi Thinkstep database, which was used in only the four studies that used GaBi software [33,35,39,70]; even the GaBi Thinkstep database may be combined with Ecoinvent [35,39]. Furthermore, since CBE is closely related to agriculture and agroindustry, the use of specific databases for assessing agricultural products is expected; in this sense, some studies used Agrifootprint [41,59] and Agribalyse [53] in the LCA of products from biorefinery processes.…”

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Life Cycle Thinking for a Circular Bioeconomy: Current Development, Challenges, and Future Perspectives

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The circular bioeconomy (CBE) is an increasingly popular method used to add value to bio-based products. However, these products entail impacts on sustainability that can be assessed by life cycle thinking (LCT). Therefore, this manuscript aims to describe the current development of using LCT for a CBE and to identify challenges and future perspectives with regard to this topic. A systematic literature review was conducted using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA), analyzing a final portfolio of 57 documents. The results indicated that the use of LCT for a CBE is very recent and has been increasing over the years, is concentrated in Europe, and mainly assesses the conversion of biowastes in biofuels through biorefinery processes, considering mostly environmental concerns, by applying life cycle assessment; thus neglecting economic and social issues. The use of system boundaries, software, databases, and impact assessment methods was reviewed. Five challenges were revealed (the expansion of system boundaries, the consideration of more endpoints, the development and use of regional databases, the development of policies to encourage CBE, and the addition of economic and social issues. Future perspectives will be aimed at considering microalgae, wastewater, and animal biomass in CBE processes, developing more value-added bioproducts and biofuels, and adding cost assessment and more circularity to CBE processes.

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Section: Type Of Biomass/biowaste Cbe Sectors and Processes Assessedmentioning

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“…In addition, the study performed by Zilberman et al [51] showed that measures leading to the correction of market failure could be used to achieve sustainable development precisely due to the emphasis on the bioeconomy (the enhancement of conservation, recycling, and use of renewable resources), which relies on biological processes and raw materials used for production processes. The financial aspects of the bioeconomy and their possible forms of measurement are also the subject of some studies [52][53][54].…”

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Forest Bioeconomy from the Perspectives of Different EU Countries and Its Potential for Measuring Sustainability

Rinn

Palátová

Kalábová

et al. 2022

Forests

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The globally accepted concept of a bioeconomy includes the field of forestry; however, the concept of a forest bioeconomy (FBE) does not appear to be defined uniformly. The concepts of bioeconomy and sustainable development are interlinked. In many countries, the bioeconomy is often the subject of efforts to quantify it from the state level, and therefore, the question arises as to whether the data regarding the financial support of an FBE in individual countries can be considered mutually comparable, with the aim of including them, for example, among the criteria for measuring sustainability (e.g., indicators of sustainable development—SDI). This option has political implications for political representation, taking the form of a comparable indicator in the approaches of individual states. This article analytically compares FBEs and our understanding of them in selected countries: Czechia, Slovakia, Finland, Italy, and Germany. Czechia financially supports various areas of forestry through European funds (Rural Development Programme, RDP CZ). In this article, we assess this support from the point of view of the perceptions of the FBE in the studied states, with an emphasis on the view of Czechia. First, an FBE analysis of the selected official and supporting documents of the studied countries was performed. The total financial data from the supported projects from the RDP CZ were subsequently assigned to these areas. Thus, the idea of financial support for the FBE through the RDP CZ from the perspectives of the selected countries was born. The differences in the perception of the FBE according to the description derived from the analysis were also confirmed by the different financial quantifications (hypothetical) of these different views. The obtained results demonstrate an incomparable state of perception of the FBE among the selected countries. For these reasons, it is currently inappropriate to use the level of FBE financial support to measure sustainability.

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Recovery of green phenolic compounds from lignin-based source: Role of ferulic acid esterase towards waste valorization and bioeconomic perspectives

Sarangi,

Srivastava,

Vivekanand

et al. 2024

Environmental Research

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A financial and environmental sustainability of circular bioeconomy: A case study of short rotation coppice, biochar and greenhouse production in southern Finland

Cited by 11 publications

References 47 publications

Life Cycle Thinking for a Circular Bioeconomy: Current Development, Challenges, and Future Perspectives

Life Cycle Thinking for a Circular Bioeconomy: Current Development, Challenges, and Future Perspectives

Forest Bioeconomy from the Perspectives of Different EU Countries and Its Potential for Measuring Sustainability

Recovery of green phenolic compounds from lignin-based source: Role of ferulic acid esterase towards waste valorization and bioeconomic perspectives

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