The Kalundborg Industrial Symbiosis was not inspired by any one thing. Similar inspirations come from the many kinds of symbioses which occur within the biological world every second. This system allows organisms to benefit from one another and one of the more commonly known examples would be that of the Ocellaris clownfish and sea anemone as seen in, Finding Nemo. The symbioses vary between organisms, ranging from that of sea life, to that of bacteria within your normal microflora. This is shown by Dr. Dimijian who gives insight as to how vast these connections are, “Symbioses, prolonged associations between organisms often widely separated phylogenetically” (Dimijian, 2000).
Industrial symbiosis allows there to be complete usage of
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In Kalundborg specifically this is between the multiple processing ompanies, the Municipality of Kaundborg, and a waste handling company (“Kalundborg Industrial Symbiosis”). These companies participate in roughly 20 different projects and within these projects circulate critical resources (“Kalundborg Industrial Symbiosis”). The excess resources they create such as heat and toxic substances go onto the next piece of symbiosis. The heat created in these projects goes towards helping nearby homes, heating water for fish farming, and growing crops within greenhouses. (“Kalundborg Industrial Symbiosis”). This symbiosis they demonstrate could be translated throughout the entire world as industrial processes occurring here are more than likely occurring in every major …show more content…
While creating such a system due to biological inspiration is something a biologist in academia would believe, the vast majority would think of reasons similar to those listed above. It seems as though Kalundborg was motivated primarily through cost effectiveness and health reasons. This is further proven by Scott Valentine as he discusses the collaborative was initially began with concerns of water and sharing other waste resoureces such as heat, steam, and gas (Valentine,