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Value chain

  • Glossary item | 20 Mar 2025

Set of interlinked activities that deliver products/services by adding value to bulk material (feedstock). In a bio-based value chain, the feedstocks tend to be biomass drawn from an existing primary production route (e.g., agriculture, forestry and livestock), or of a novel (e.g., microalgae) or secondary origin (e.g., sludge, industrial wastewater and household organic waste).

Lokesh, K.; Ladu, L.; Summerton, L. Bridging the Gaps for a ‘Circular’ Bioeconomy: Selection Criteria, Bio-Based Value Chain and Stakeholder Mapping. Sustainability 2018, 10, 1695. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10061695

Source category: Scientific and Technical Literature

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