Regional Municipal Organic Waste Diversion to Anaerobic Digestion to Support Resource Recovery and Circular Economy

温室产业在加拿大经济中扮演着重要且不断扩大的角色。在线性经济模型中，来自中小型城市和工业、商业和机构（IC&I）部门的很大一部分食物和有机废物（FOW）最终被填埋，这对环境和社会产生了重大影响。支持FOW循环经济模式的策略开始在加拿大推广，厌氧消化（AD）是一个很好的选择。然而，在中小型城市以及IC&I部门试图通过AD改善其流量转移目标的过程中，仍存在一些不利影响。该项目伙伴关系的目标是探索一种新的区域公私伙伴关系框架，以全面降低流动资金转移的成本，特别是对于中小型城市和蔬菜温室部门，以提高利用AD回收资源的可行性，并支持循环经济模式。

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.