Case studies

Symbiosis stories in Latvia

Latvian companies already practising industrial symbiosis today: production residues become energy, materials and new products.

Symbiosis in action

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Heat and power from landfill biogas run greenhouses, around 350 t of tomatoes and 3 million cucumbers a year.

Waste paper becomes cellulose insulation, fibre, granules and absorbents.

Spent brewing grain goes to local farmers as livestock feed.

Whey becomes the protein drink “Piena spēks”; wastewater residues become biogas.

Manure is digested into biogas (power and heat); the digestate fertilises the fields.

Biogas from treatment sludge covers almost all heat and much of the electricity needs via cogeneration.

Detailed case studies: how companies work with experts to develop new solutions for their production residues.