SWAN Platform - A web based tool to support the development of industrial solid waste reuse business models

The SWAN platform is an integrated suite of on-line resources and tools for assessing industrial symbiotic opportunities based on solid industrial waste reuse. It has been developed for the purposes of the SWAN Project, a project of the transnational Cooperation Programme Interreg V-B “Balkan-Mediterranean 2014-2020” aiming to develop a digital solid waste reuse platform for the Balkan region and Cyprus. The SWAN platform integrates a database with the spatial and technical characteristics of industrial solid waste producers and potential consumers, which will be populated with data from all four countries involved in the project; i.e. Greece, Bulgaria, Albania and Cyprus. It also incorporates an inventory of commercially implemented best practices on solid industrial waste reuse. The SWAN platform hopes to be the facilitator in the development of novel business models based on solid industrial waste reuse in the Balkan region. Towards this end, it will allow the registered users to run the SWAN matching algorithms and identify and assess potential novel business models based on solid waste reuse, either for an individual industrial unit (source/potential receiver of solid waste) or a specific region.