"nisp waste exchange approach" - robert spencer, nisp

www.nisp.org.uk

southeast@nisp.org.uk

0845 094 9521

Robert SpencerActing Regional Coordinator

NISP South East

Solutions for challenging times!

Client satisfaction, sound marketing and robust financial management, PLUS:– Innovation

• Develop new products / new markets

– Diversification• Find new clients, partners

and suppliers– Collaboration

• Cut costs + generate new sales

Connecting industry – creating opportunity

Looking at…..

– What is IS– How NISP works– Workshop power!– Case studies– Into the workshop

Connecting industry – creating opportunity

Symbiosis

‘An interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association to the

advantage of both’

Concise Oxford Dictionary, 8th Edition

What is ‘Industrial Symbiosis’ ?

Modified from Chertow, Yale 2000

“Industrial symbiosis engages traditionally separate industries and other organisations in a collective approach to competitive advantage involving physical exchanges of materials, energy, water and/or by products together with collaboration on the shared use of assets, logistics, experts and knowledge transfer.”

Connecting industry – creating opportunity

Commercial & Industrial Waste

Industrial Symbiosis advances sustainability

Naturalresources

Products

Waste (to disposal)

Linear system

Circular systemProducts

Waste to resource

Natural resources

Naturalresources

Products

Waste to resource

What is NISP ?

• NISP is a business - led initiative that uses the IS approach• Creating new market opportunities• Increasing the range of resources that have commercial value• Adding to the bottom line and improving resource efficiency for

all involved

Key features of NISP

• Universal Scope: Not limited to any particular type of resource, NISP deals with energy, expertise, logistics, services, assets, transportation, waste, water, etc.

• Diverse: Brings together a broad range of industries, sectors and skills and creates new networking opportunities for its members

• Demand Led: Driven entirely by the requirements of its member companies

• Free Membership: For all companies and organisations, regardless of sector, size or turnover

NISP INCREASES

JobsSales

LearningBottom lineInnovation

New businessInward investmentKnowledge transferUtilisation of assets

NISP REDUCES

Use of Virgin resourcesUse of potable water

Hazardous waste

CO2 emissionsTransportPollutionLandfillCostsRisk

What can NISP achieve with you?

Helping to create real business opportunity!

NISP UK Delivery

• Business led: Programme Advisory Groups (Michelin, Veolia, Lafarge, BMW, Bombardier,

Shell, Marley Eternit etc)

• Regionally delivered: 12 Teams – England, Wales, Scotland & N. Ireland

• Nationally coordinated: Facilitates knowledge sharing

• Public investment: Investment from UK Govt. (Defra) Independent

& impartial

Head of Regional

Development

London

Senior Practitioner

Head of Sectors

South East East of England

Senior Practitioner

Practitioner

Practitioner

Regional Director

Project Manager

Regional Management

Support Practitioner

Support Practitioner

Support Practitioner

Practitioner

Practitioner

Core NISP Service offering

• ‘Heads-up’ for Members on prospects via phone and email

• Facilitated Business meetings and Site meetings

• Regular updates, prompts and match assistance

• Complex, multi-partner synergies and IS projects

• Dissemination of IS best practice – case studies

205 potential environmental business opportunities created

"Very interesting. Surprising number of connections made. Will come again!

Very impressed.”

National Energy Saving Service

250 potential environmental business opportunities created

"The best way to meet key contacts and share resources.”

Dunton Environmental

Innovative Community Building

• NISP were asked to find polypipe for the roof construction

• Thames Water gave 350m of plastic piping• The polypipe will form the beams to

support plastic bottle roof tiles

Outcomes:• £325 in cost savings• 13 CO2e Te emissions

reduced• 1 Te of virgin materials

Growing Gardens Project working with Deen City Farm in Merton to renovate a disused patch of land for use as a garden for the local community. Community building constructed entirely from re-used and reclaimed materials.

Zoos + Supermarkets

• Referral from IoW Chamber of Commerce• Surplus fruit and veg being discarded• Beneficial use found at Amazon World

Outcomes:• Costs saved: £1,720• Landfill diverted: 43 Te p.a.

• CO2e reduced: 106 Te p.a.

Tyre wire processing…

• Steel manufacturer - London• Tyre reprocessor - Cambridge

– Stockpiles of problematic wire– High value outlet identified– New processing and baling technology

implemented– 6,800 tonnes of tyre wire processed– Alternative process for stripping and baling

installed

Outcomes:• 6,800 tonnes per annum of steel reprocessed

• 13,396 tonnes of CO2 reduced

• Water savings of >250,000 tonnes water using recycled steel over virgin steel

Dismantling and recycling of ‘digipak’ cd cases (HM Prison Service & Sony DADC (UK) Ltd)

• Sony DADC (UK) Ltd unable to find a cost-effective recycling solution for surplus ‘digipak’ cd and dvd cases

• Difficult product to recycle – the plastic inner case is glued to the card outer

• HM Prison Service can provide many industrial services through their contract workshops

• Nearby prison was able to dismantle the ‘digipak’ cases yielding two valuable recycling streams

Outcomes:• Cost neutral for Sony• >£6,000 in new sales for HMPS• 342 CO2e Te emissions reduced• 40 Te p.a. waste diverted

Hostas to Hospices

• HMP Ford is an open prison with work opportunities for inmates

• The onsite nursery produced more bedding plants than demanded by other prisons

• At a workshop in Crawley, the prison service found that they were able to give the plants to 2 hospices

Foundry Sand High Quality Synergy

• Foundry Sand used in some foundries for the cast metal moulds

• Sand is reused each time, however the useful life is limited

• Spent sand is sent to landfill • NISP found that the spent

sand could be used as an alternative to virgin aggregates

• MJ Allen and Hanson• Creasey Castings and H

Sivyer Transport

What our members have said…

• “I know you will be keen to hear that one of your contacts presented us with the best solution, and would like to thank you for enabling the use of NISP resource to  help me arrive at this conclusion for our acrylic waste.”

Mike Walters, Operations Manager, John Lewis & Waitrose

• “NISP has recently put GLASSeco Limited in touch with several useful contacts.  The NISP team had an immediate grasp of our business and a practical understanding of the type of help we needed. We have dealt with numerous government-funded bodies recently but NISP was, by far, the most refreshing agency and the ONLY one that actually delivered what it said it could...  

Donald Crawley, Joint Managing Director, GLASSeco Limited

Message from NISP Director…

“Those businesses that have embedded the industrial symbiosis approach into their company’s strategy have made significant savings and boosted profits by managing their resources in a more efficient way”

[Peter Laybourn – Programme Director]

SYNERGY WORKSHOPSYNERGY WORKSHOP

Heather RogersSupport Practitioner

NISP South East

How it works…

Really simple principle: it’s all about making matches!

• Everyone writes stuff they ‘HAVE’ and ‘WANT’ on the slips provided• These are circulated to all tables in the room and MATCHES made!• NISP facilitators on each table are there to drive the process

What do you ‘HAVE’?

Unwanted resources, services on offer etc.

What do you ‘WANT’?

Materials, space, services etc

HAVES and WANTS

So what sort of stuff are we talking about?

‘Waste’ materials such as:– Plastic– Wood– Metal– Glass– Biodegradable – food & green waste– Textiles– Construction materials– Electrical equipment

HAVES and WANTS

Solutions / new uses for ‘waste’:– Re-use– Segregation & dismantling– Recycling– Processing

• Composting• Anaerobic digestion• Thermal treatment

– Space / land / storage– Manufacturing– Expertise– Transport

What happens now

First 15 minutes:

• Introductions & exchange business cards• Fill in your ‘HAVE’ slips (left hand side)

– please include as much detail as possible!• Then do the same for your ‘WANT’ slips

Following 10 minute slots:

• ‘HAVES’ are read out on your table – if you ‘WANT’ it, record your name & table no. on the right hand side of the slip…MATCH!

• ‘HAVES’ are circulated & read to each table – again, put your name & table no. on the slip if you WANT it.

A Company Ltd

Heather Rogers

Wood

2 tonnes / week

Winchester

Need weekly collection

Recycling Co.

Libby Lancaster

Plastic

Up to 100t/week

Southampton

Will collect. HDPE preferred.

A Company Ltd

Heather Rogers

Wood

2 tonnes / week

Winchester

Ongoing. Need weekly collection

3 Robert Spencer RS Trading Co.

So then what happens?

• NISP team records potential MATCHES from today

• Event summary emailed to all delegates with MATCHES & CONTACT DETAILS

• As new NISP members you can be added to the National NISP Resource Database

• It’s up to you to progress MATCHES with each other but the NISP team is HERE TO HELP!

….please keep in touch - let us know how you get on!

‘Waste’ materials such as:– Plastic– Wood– Metal– Glass– Biodegradable (e.g. food

& green waste– Textiles– Construction materials– Electrical equipment

Solutions / new uses for ‘waste’:– Re-use– Segregation &

dismantling– Recycling– Processing

• Composting• Anaerobic digestion• Thermal treatment

– Space / land / storage– Manufacturing– Expertise– Transport

What stuff do you HAVE or WANT?

www.nisp.org.uk

southeast@nisp.org.uk

0845 094 9521