期刊
GEOFORUM
卷 85, 期 -, 页码 336-344出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.03.021
关键词
Industrial symbiosis; Vanadium; Political industrial ecology; Steel slag; Circular economy; Resource security
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资金
- United Kingdom Natural Environment Research Council
- United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council
- United Kingdom Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs [NE/K015648/1, NE/L014211/1]
- NERC [NE/L01405X/1, NE/L014211/1, NE/K015648/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/L01405X/1, NE/K015648/1, NE/L014211/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Highly alkaline industrial residues (e.g., steel slag, bauxite processing residue (red mud) and ash from coal combustion) have been identified as stocks of potentially valuable metals. Technological change has created demand for metals, such as vanadium and certain rare earth elements, in electronics associated with renewable energy generation and storage. Current raw material and circular economy policy initiatives in the EU and industrial ecology research all promote resource recovery from residues, with research so far primarily from an environmental science perspective. This paper begins to address the deficit of research into the governance of resource recovery from a novel situation where re-use involves extraction of a component from a bulk residue that itself represents a risk to the environment. Taking a political industrial ecology approach, we briefly present emerging techniques for recovery and consider their regulatory implications in the light of potential environmental impacts. The paper draws on EU and UK regulatory framework for these residues along with semi-structured interviews with industry and regulatory bodies. A complex picture emerges of entwined ownerships and responsibilities for residues, with past practice and policy having a lasting impact on current possibilities for resource recovery.
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