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DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7509-820-7-0370

THE POTENTIAL OF NON-WOOD PULP IN EUROPEAN CIRCULAR BIOECONOMY

Peter ©EDÍK, Filip TKÁČ, Danka MORAVČÍKOVÁ


European Union is striving towards sustainability and circularity due to many serious reasons such as limited natural resources, climate change, degradation of ecosystems, biodiversity and lands etc. To address these challenges, the EU created in 2012 so called “European Bioeconomy Strategy” which aims towards innovative and sustainable use of renewable resources including the concept of circular bioeconomy and bio-based economy. Biomass and Bio-based products have great potential for production and recycling the raw materials including agricultural residues. The significant potential is in lignocellulose retrieved from agriculture and forestry residues involving waste, straws or other by-products.
Purpose: The aim of this research is to study and describe the potential of pulp from fibres other than wood in Europe.
Design/methodology/approach: The research is based on secondary data obtained from Faostat and various research studies. Data were analysed by using descriptive statistics.
Findings: Results showed that the world production of pulp from fibres other than wood has decreasing trends. In total only 11,8 mil. tonnes were produced worldwide in 2019. Approximately 82% of overall non-wood pulp is produced in Asia, where the largest producer is China. The similar trend can be observed in European union as well. The major producers are Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, France, Poland and Hungary. Slovakia produced in 2019 only 1 000 tonnes. Pulp from fibres other than wood offers a huge potential for papermaking industry in countries that have no or limited access to wood fibres. Non-wood fibres can be produced from cereal straws, grasses and from other agricultural residues. Furthermore, the production of non-wood pulp provides opportunities for food sectors as it can used as raw material for degradable food packaging which will contribute to sustainable consumption. In addition, supporting the processing agricultural residues will indirectly foster bioeconomy in the rural areas.
Research limitations: The primary limitation to the generalization of these results is the character of this paper which includes only pilot study, therefore a further in-depth research should be addressed.

Keywords: circular bioeconomy, biomass, pulp, agricultural residues

pages: 370-375, Published: 2021, online: 2021



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