Resources and Waste Management in a Bio-Based Economy

摘要

The European Bioeconomy in 2030, states that the bio-based economy 'refers to the sustainable production and conversion of biomass into a range of food, health, fibre and industrial products and energy. Renewable biomass encompasses any biological material as a product in itself or to be used as raw material.' Indeed, the bio-based economy is the novel concept associated with the development of renewable resources management in a modern society, related to biomass management but also to the biogenic fraction of society's generated wastes. As reported by PRO-BIP 2009 'every year about 170 billion tonnes of biomass are produced by nature, of which only 3.5% (6 billion tonnes) are utilized by mankind.