BRIT is a browser-based tool, designed to improve the understanding and management of biogenic residue waste streams. The tool aims to offer its users a comprehensive view of the entire waste generation, collection, and processing landscape using mapping and visualization approaches, as well as interactive scenario development.
A public instance of this tool is hosted by Hamburg University of Technology and can be accessed at https://brit.bioresource-tools.net.
This instance contains the data and case studies from the projects FLEXIBI and SOILCOM as well as other data produced by the BIEM research group.
BRIT is under constant development. Please feel free to leave any kind of feedback at info@bioresource-tools.net
SOILCOM is a project of the Interreg North Sea Region Programme, co-funded by the European Union. The project focused on sustainable soil management through the utilization of waste streams as a resource for custom-made composts. Within work package 4 Waste Streams of SOILCOM, BRIT was significantly improved, especially the user interface and usability across all modules. The tool was extended with the Household Waste Collection module, which then was applied for the collaborative data collection on biowaste collection systems in the North Sea Region.
The state of BRIT at the end of SOILCOM is fixed as release Version 0.2 "SOILCOM".
SOILCOM website: https://www.northsearegion.eu/soilcom
FLEXIBI was an ERA-NET project, which has received funding from the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The project studied the potential of residues from agri– and horticulture, gardening and landscaping, as well as from post-consumer wood from peri-urban and urban areas as feedstocks for Small-Scale Flexi-Feed Biorefineries (SFB). During the project, the proof of concept for BRIT as part of a decision-support-tool was accomplished. It was clear that a tool for data collection and inventories could be built as easy to use online-tool, relying on only open-source libraries. The name Bioresource Information Tool was coined and the first prototype was built.
The state of BRIT at the end of FLEXIBI is fixed as release Version 0.1 "FLEXIBI".
FLEXIBI website: http://www.flexibi-biorefineries.eu
BIEM is a research group that is dedicated to bioresource management. It is based at the Institute of Wastewater Management and Water Protection of the Hamburg University of Technology. To find out more about the group and its most recent research, visit https://www.tuhh.de/alt/aww/research/biem.
The BIEM group operates a platform to disseminate the tools, lectures and info material from the various projects it is involved in: https://www.bioresource-tools.net