Cascading use: a systematic approach to biomass beyond the energy sector
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Growing demand for biomass for energy in Europe and beyond, alongside growing interest in the use of biomass to replace petroleum and other conventional materials in the production of industrial products and chemicals, necessitates consideration of how the limited supplies of biomass can be used most efficiently. This paper presents the concept of cascading the use of biomass (i.e. a mechanism for prioritizing its use for socially preferable products, notably materials over its use for energy). Such a mechanism would be an opportunity to maximize the efficiency of biomass use. Currently, barriers to the wider adoption of cascading persist in the form of underdeveloped supply chains to facilitate the reuse of biomass resources and a regulatory framework that focuses support on the energy use of biomass. This paper discusses policy mechanisms and instruments that could help lift these barriers, including measures under the EU Renewable Energy Directive to introduce more encompassing sustainability criteria and incentives for the use of end‐of‐life biomass. We further argue for more research to better understand the environmental and economic impacts of increased industrial biomass uses and to link any support for biomaterials closely to the outcome of such research. © 2013 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons Ltd
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An additional limiting factor is that policies dealing with energy and waste are independent from one another.
“An additional limiting factor is that policies dealing with energy and waste are independent from one another (Bergeron, 2014;Husgafvel et al., 2018;Keegan et al., 2013;Suominen et al., 2017).”
From Transforming the bio-based sector towards a circular economy: What can we learn from wood cascading? (2020) · cites this paper as Keegan et al., 2013
The available passages are bibliographic metadata (including the ‘1 Finished’ section, with no page number), not discussion of policy barriers. Searches for the claimed independence of energy and waste policies, related policy barriers, and waste found no passage addressing the claim. (LLM, conf=0.72)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe difficulty of involving the most relevant stakeholders of the wood product chains - producers and consumers - is a relevant limiting factor.
“In particular, some authors indicate the difficulty of involving the most relevant stakeholders of the wood product chains -, producers and consumers -as a relevant limiting factor (Fraanje, 1997;Höglmeier et al., 2017;Keegan et al., 2013).”
From Transforming the bio-based sector towards a circular economy: What can we learn from wood cascading? (2020) · cites this paper as Keegan et al., 2013
The available passages are bibliographic metadata and keywords (the unpaged ‘Abstract’ and ‘1 Finished’ sections), not discussion of barriers to cascading use. Searches for stakeholder involvement, wood-product producers and consumers, and barriers found no passage addressing the claimed difficulty, so our copy cannot verify it. (LLM, conf=0.74)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredA major factor for producer and consumer resistance is a general lack of attention about end-of-life disposal of products and, for consumers, a lack of information about the composition of the materials.
“A major factor for this is a general lack of attention about endof-life disposal of products and for consumers, a lack of information about the composition of the materials (Keegan et al., 2013).”
From Transforming the bio-based sector towards a circular economy: What can we learn from wood cascading? (2020) · cites this paper as Keegan et al., 2013
The available indexed passages (labeled “Abstract” and “1 Finished”; no page numbers) contain keywords and bibliographic information, not a discussion of producer or consumer resistance. Searches for end-of-life disposal, material composition, and barriers to cascading found no passage addressing the claim. (LLM, conf=0.76)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredLogistics is a factor that limits the implementation of cascading practices due to the difficulty and economic expenses related to collection and transportation of waste wood.
“In particular, Garcia and Hora (2017), Keegan et al. (2013) and Taskhiri et al. (2016) name logistics as a factor that limits the implementation of cascading practices due to the sheer difficulty and economic expenses related to the collection of waste wood and its transportation from a collection site to a recycling facility and then, to a distribution network.”
From Transforming the bio-based sector towards a circular economy: What can we learn from wood cascading? (2020) · cites this paper as Keegan et al., 2013
The available passages contain bibliographic metadata and keywords, but no discussion of barriers to cascading use. Searches for waste-wood collection, transport logistics, and their costs returned no passage addressing the claim. (LLM, conf=0.72)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe low level of information sharing among organizations and companies is a prominent factor linked to communication issues in the supply chain.
“The low level of information sharing among organizations and companies is a prominent factor linked to communication issues in the supply chain (Brunet-Navarro et al., 2018;Fraanje, 1997;Keegan et al., 2013;Winder and Bobar, 2018;Zander et al., 2016).”
From Transforming the bio-based sector towards a circular economy: What can we learn from wood cascading? (2020) · cites this paper as Keegan et al., 2013
The indexed copy's Abstract mentions underdeveloped supply chains as a barrier to reusing biomass, but it does not link that barrier to information sharing or communication among organizations and companies. Searches for information sharing, communication, and supply chains found no passage addressing the specific claim. (LLM, conf=0.72)
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- Authors
- Keegan, D., Kretschmer, B., Elbersen, B., & Panoutsou, C.
- Affiliations
- Institute For European Environmental Policy (GB)
- Wageningen University & Research (NL)
- Imperial College London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Kretschmer, Bettina
- Venue
- Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2013-02-07
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 193-206
- ISSN
- 1932-1031 (ISSN-L)
- 1932-104X
- OpenAlex
- W2098918067
- Cited by
- 203
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 32.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- research.wur.nl
- Locations
- Biofuels Bioproducts and Biorefining (publishedVersion)
- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Catalysis for Biomass Conversion
- Keywords
- biomass energy, biomass supply chain, Renewable Energy Directive, sustainability criteria, policy instruments, biomass policy
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