The circular economy as a driving force for transition at ‘Heart of Hainaut’

Cœur du Hainaut Centre d'énergies Heart of Hainaut, strong in circular economy

The regional project ‘Heart of Hainaut’ places the circular economy at the centre of its socio-economic development programme.

The limits of the linear economic model are well known: the ‘Heart of Hainaut’ area aims to be a place of experimentation in order to spark the transition. It has the tools that are adapted to the local context and to the sectors that have been identified as promising: sustainable construction, green chemistry, agri-food, etc. The circular economy has the potential to initiate a virtuous circle for the region: improving its attractiveness, creating new jobs, anchoring existing companies, efficient use of available resources, enabling the energy transition.

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Are you a project leader As a privileged partner of companies, IDEA creates awareness among or company manager? businesses regarding the principles of the circular economy and the opportunities that it has to offer. In addition, IDEA supports companies in their efforts. Do you want to eco-design and manufacture your The objective? Increase their economic competitiveness and reduce their products in a circular way? environmental impact.

Are you interested in industrial As a territorial facilitator and economic development operator, symbiosis projects? IDEA plays a key role in searching for partnerships and building networks in which the various players can meet each other.

Are you interested in changing Thanks to the strong ties between its key players (research centres, your business model universities, institutions, associations, municipalities), innovative projects for more added value? linked to the various principles of the circular economy are emerging throughout the ‘Heart of Hainaut’ region. Industrial and regional ecology, one of the pillars of the circular economy

The Tertre eco-zone is a 246 ha chemical industry platform mainly comprising EC -Z NING production activities. There are significant economies DE TERTRE IDEA aims to convert the 32 ha of the former of scale to be achieved when PÔLE D’ÉCOLOGIE INDUSTRIELLE ‘Carcoke area‘ into a revitalized and attractive all companies work together. industrial site. In order to achieve this ambition, IDEA analysed the incoming and outgoing flows Patrice Bauvin, Director of the area from the viewpoint of a self-sustaining YARA TERTRE ecosystem in which the resources consumed (or rejected) by one can be used by the other.

The meetings we had via As a coordinator, IDEA supports the development of several the eco-zone workshop, industrial synergy projects: enabled us to find solutions for food > MATERIAL AND ENERGY waste and to make our lives easier. Design of a steam and CO2 power plant Ludovic Hernould, Finance and Administration Director > WATER CYCLE LES TARTES DE FRANÇOISE Sizing of a wastewater treatment unit that serves several plants > BIODIVERSITY AND LANDSCAPE Remediation for industrial conversion and creation of a landscape charter > FREIGHT TRANSPORT Creation of a Short-Haul Rail Operator (Planisfer) > MOBILITY Security through road development (roundabouts, etc.) This industrial ecology approach has been replicated on the Feluy petrochemistry platform and in the Seneffe-Manage business park. In the latter, networking has made several companies think about pooling services to achieve economies of scale, while others are valorising their unsold food through social organizations.

Aerial view of the Tertre eco-zone, including the ‘Carcoke area‘. A true business exchange network

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Collaboration, innovation and IDEA leads a pilot project to identify the material flows generated by reduction of the environmental impact economic actors (collectivities, farmers, companies) in order to detect by promoting short supply chains and potential synergies in the area. by answering the competitivity needs Thanks to this project and the organization of workshops, IDEA is of companies: this is what the ambitious supporting projects in the plastics, organic materials and wood sectors ‘Heart of Hainaut’ project in order to create local chains for valorisation, recycling and reuse. aims to achieve. Among them is the implementation of a platform to revalorise wood in Quentin Deplus, the form of materials (e. g. furniture creation) or energy (pellets). On a circular economy project manager, smaller scale, the coffee grounds generated by a hospital are reused by IDEA a training centre to turn it into compost. INTERCOMMUNALE DE DÉVELOPPEMENT project, territory of Hainaut’ ‘Heart of the coordinator the is IDEA sation and attractiveness. attractiveness. and sation reindustriali challenge: dual a on based plan redeployment Centre d'énergies ‘Heart of Hainaut’, a region Hainaut’, aregion of ‘Heart www.coeurduhainaut.be that invests, that moves, and that progresses ÉCONOMIQUE ET D’AMÉNAGEMENT Hainaut du Cœur a a socio-economic DU CŒUR DU HAINAUT > more. … and > biomass, energy, (geothermal energies Sustainable > municipalities; for services Technical expertise > purification); distribution, (drainage, Water sector > studies; development regional and planning Urban > consultancy; business and infrastructure Economic as: such interest, of general of fields inarange operates which company, intermunicipal amulti-sector is It inhabitants. 540,000 than more with municipalities 27 groups currently It area. of Hainaut’ ‘Heart of the agency development economic the is IDEA 1956, in Founded windenergy, etc.); windenergy, IDEA MAKES THE ‘HEART OF HAINAUT’ BEAT FASTER

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