Grant: Alliance Grants
University of Windsor
$133,000.00
Regional Municipal Organic Waste Diversion to Anaerobic Digestion to Support Resource Recovery and Circular Economy
FY 2024-25
Summary
The Greenhouse Sector has a significant and expanding role to play in the Canadian economy. In a linear economy model, a large fraction of food and organic waste (FOW) from small- and medium-sized municipalities and industrial, commercial and institutional (IC&I) sector is ending up in landfills, which has several significant impacts on the environment, and society. Strategies that will support the circular economy model for FOW are starting to be promoted in Canada, and anaerobic digestion (AD) is a great option. However, there remain several hurdles that adversely impact small- and medium-sized municipalities, and also the IC&I sector, in their attempts to improve their targets for FOW diversion via AD. The goal of the project's partnership is to explore a novel regional public/private partnership framework for a holistic reduction in the cost of FOW diversion, in particular for small- and medium-sized municipalities and the vegetable greenhouse sector, to improve the feasibility of resource recovery using AD and support the circular economy model.
Program
Alliance Grants
Recipient
Location
Ontario, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
575802-2022
Name nom
Seth, Rajesh R
Department département
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Organization id
37
Institution établissement
University of Windsor
Province en
Ontario
Province fr
Ontario
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2024
Competition year année de concours
2022
Award amount
133000
Program id
ALLRP
Program name en
Alliance Grants
Program name fr
Subventions Alliance
Group en
RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS
Group fr
PARTENARIATS DE RECHERCHE
Committee code
96
Committee name en
RPP Internal Decision Cttee
Committee name fr
Cté de décision interne - PPR
Area of application code
902
Area of application group en
Commercial services
Area of application group fr
Services commerciaux
Area of application en
Waste, waste management and recycling
Area of application fr
Déchets, gestion des déchets et recyclage
Research subject code
1500
Research subject group en
Environmental engineering
Research subject group fr
Génie de l'environnement
Research subject en
Environmental engineering
Research subject fr
Génie de l'environnement
Field of research list names en
Not available
Field of research list names fr
Non disponible
Socioeconomic objective list names en
Not available
Socioeconomic objective list names fr
Non disponible
Application title
Regional Municipal Organic Waste Diversion to Anaerobic Digestion to Support Resource Recovery and Circular Economy
Keywords
anaerobic digestion; biomethane; circular economy; food and organic waste; life cycle assessment; renewable energy; resource recovery; waste to energy
Application summary
The Greenhouse Sector has a significant and expanding role to play in the Canadian economy. In a linear economy model, a large fraction of food and organic waste (FOW) from small- and medium-sized municipalities and industrial, commercial and institutional (IC&I) sector is ending up in landfills, which has several significant impacts on the environment, and society. Strategies that will support the circular economy model for FOW are starting to be promoted in Canada, and anaerobic digestion (AD) is a great option. However, there remain several hurdles that adversely impact small- and medium-sized municipalities, and also the IC&I sector, in their attempts to improve their targets for FOW diversion via AD. The goal of the project's partnership is to explore a novel regional public/private partnership framework for a holistic reduction in the cost of FOW diversion, in particular for small- and medium-sized municipalities and the vegetable greenhouse sector, to improve the feasibility of resource recovery using AD and support the circular economy model.
