Abstract:
Industrial symbiosis (IS) has been emerged aiming the integration of industrial
complexes, in which by-products of materials and energy are using as feedstock instead
of being wasted. Since organisations cooperatively increase their mutual sustainable
benefits simultaneously through IS, a number of IS projects have been initiated across
the whole world. However, most of the projects have been failed and discontinued in
long term undermining the expected collaborative gains and efficiencies. Hence, recent
studies articulate the necessity of having a standardised mechanism towards
implementing the resource efficiency optimised IS designs. Thus, this paper aims to
present the issues in the current process of IS development in order to propose a
mechanism for redeveloping the process through resource flow efficiency optimisation.
A systematic review of key literature was conducted in the areas of IS, its design and
implementation procedures. The data collected through the secondary survey was then
analysed manually to identify the different stages of the IS development process and
related issues. As many scholars recognised, most of IS projects have been discontinued
due to the shortcomings and the inefficiencies of the IS development process. Thus, the
necessity of having a standardised and more robust model for optimising IS is
recognised. Finally, the proposed redevelopment is conceptualised by introducing a new
phase of re-evaluation and optimisation modelling to evaluate the symbiosis
relationships prior implementation to consider them either for implementing or for replanning.
