SusValueWaste had its end conference on the 13th of June with 50 experts from research, industry and policy. The project has resulted in a large number of research publications, reports, conference papers and policy briefs. Another output of the project is increased interdisciplinary collaboration which has led to the development of several spin-off projects among the... Read More
SusValueWaste has published its third policy brief which addresses main challenges and opportunities for the valorisation of side-streams in the food and beverage industry. The brief is based on comparative case studies in Norway and in Denmark: on whey in the dairy industry, on animal by-products in the meat industry and on spent grain in the... Read More
The need to go from the oil economy to a bio-based economy is ever more acknowledged. In our book, From Waste to Value: Valorisation Pathways for Organic Waste Streams in Circular Bioeconomies, we share the research from the SusValueWaste project. The focus is on how streams of organic waste and residues can become valuable products, to... Read More
Bioenergy from wood biomass can be important for taming dangerous climate change, but the rapidly evolving forest sector should ensure that wood-based bioenergy production entails both environmental and socio-economic solutions. Such production can stimulate both climate change mitigation, adaptation, and rural development. Julia Szulecka, SusValueWaste’s postdoc based at TIK (UiO), has recently published her work on... Read More
SusValeuWaste’s partner TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (UiO) will celebrate its 20th anniversary on March 20th, 2019. To commemorate the occasion, TIK’s Anniversary Conference “Interdisciplinarity in the Age of Uncertainty” will be held at Blindern (Mar. 20, 2019 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM, Eilert Sunds hus, Aud. 1). Specific sessions with renowned researchers will... Read More
NorEnviro is the newly opened national centre for gathering and sharing environmental and resource data concerning products, processes, materials, and energy and waste systems. A key task for NorEnviro is to set up a well-functioning infrastructure to ease the sharing and use of accumulated data from different institutions in Norway. This type of data is an important starting point for research and development, documentation and design of products in the circular... Read More
Numerous initiatives show that the food waste challenge can be tackled in many ways. In this article at forskning.no, Eili Skrivervik, part of the SusValueWaste team at TIK, advocates for the emphasis on collective efforts to create innovations, instead of keeping the focus on the food waste failures. Read the whole article (in Norwegian): Innovasjon kan... Read More
Spent grain is an organic left-over from beer production. Historically this side-stream has been given away for free to farmers as livestock feed. However, with the decline of the number of nearby located farms and challenges due to quick spoilage, currently the spent grain is often considered inconvenient waste instead of being a valuable resource. Large... Read More
Wood is a versatile resource. Trees can become building materials, chemicals, energy, feed and nutrients. The saying is “Anything that can be made from oil can be made of trees“, but tree fibres can actually be used in even more ways than oil. With 37 per cent of the land covered with forest, Norway possesses renewable... Read More
When making paper and pulp via the so called kraft process, residuals from the wood end up in a by-product called black liquor. Today the black liquor is usually burned for energy and heat at the paper mills, but what if part of it could be used to make transportation fuels instead? New report Johanna Olofsson... Read More
