Industrial Symbiosis Realising Profits

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Industrial Symbiosis Realising Profits

• Nigel Holmes Delivery Manager NISP Scotland
• TEN Steering Group 20th March 2007

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Overview

• What is NISP Industrial Symbiosis
• Why is Industrial Symbiosis relevant
• NISP achievements to date
• Moving Goalposts Commercial, Legislation,
  Technical
• Detailed case example London Gin
• How can we take this forward

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Resource Efficiency Support

• NISP is one of the UKs leading business support
  programmes
• Other supported Resource Efficiency programmes
  look at
• Energy (Energy Savings Trust, Carbon Trust)
• Waste minimisation (BEP, Envirowise)
• Replicable large scale recycling opportunities
  (WRAP)
• Industrial Symbiosis looks for commercial
  partnering opportunities, in areas not covered by
  the other programmes

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What is Industrial Symbiosis?

• 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
• National Industrial Symbiosis Program (NISP) has
  6000 members in 12 UK regions, over 900 in
  Scotland
• NISP Scotland is funded by Scottish Executive,
  Scottish Enterprise and SEPA

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IS in Action Brewing
Before
After
From www.zeri.org
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What NISP achieves

• NISP INCREASES
• Jobs
• Sales
• Learning
• Bottom line
• Innovation
• New business
• Inward investment
• Knowledge transfer
• Utilisation of assets

• NISP REDUCES
• Use of Virgin resources
• Use of potable water
• Hazardous waste
• CO2 emissions
• Transport
• Pollution
• Landfill
• Costs
• Risk

NISP helps create real business opportunity
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Delivering Improvement

• NISP Programme Achievements to date
• Helped divert more than 1.8 Million tonnes of
  waste from Landfill
• Generated 71 million in additional sales
• Cost savings to industry of more than 64
  million
• Created or safeguarded over 950 jobs
• Reduced water use by 2.3 Million tonnes
• Reduced CO2 emissions by 1.6 Million tonnes

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Outputs from NISP

• Outputs are verified externally (by DataBuild),
  and auditors believe many claims are understated
  persistent

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Symbiosis Already Happening
Donate to social enterprise for making furniture
Use to smoke fish Fuel source
Transfer waste heat to neighbouring company or
organisation for heating agriculture or
aquaculture
Whisky Distillery
Backhaul with suitable materials Warehouse
location
Convert and sell to local farmer for animal feed
Fuel Source
Transfer to neighbouring company as alternative
to using potable water
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IS Synergy Barriers

• Legislative is it really waste?
• Commercial can parties agree a price?
• Technical can you handle it?
• For technical barriers NISP calls on Resource
  Efficiency Knowledge Transfer Network for
  specialist advice.
• Each NISP region has their own RE-KTN technology
  manager develops links with regional
  universities.
• Links between regions identify replicable
  opportunities

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Moving Goalposts

• Legislation can create or remove barriers
• Waste Regulations Codifications, Orphan Wastes
• EU Directives (WEEE, Water Framework, etc)
• What can be legally exported as waste
• Commercial may reflect global local market
  drivers
• Export of waste plastics to China, will this
  continue
• Availability cost for hazardous material
  landfill
• Solvent recovery, laundering reuse
• Technical new processes become commercialised
• Gasification of wastes for chemicals production

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Example 1 Yeast Extract

• Case Study 1
• Approximately 500 tonnes off-spec material per
  annum
• Good material, results from grade changes
• High value
• NISP Collaboration
• Introduced to EWOS for use in fish-meal
• Increased sales
• Further trials in progress

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Case Study 2 Stone Off-cuts

• Case Study 2
• Approximately 1000 tonnes stone off-cuts per
  annum
• Mixture of stone types
• Historically sent to landfill (inert waste)
• SMAS Referral Scottish Manufacturing Advisory
  Service
• NISP Collaboration
• Site visit. Begin to segregate materials
• Sales of off-cuts increasing
• British Waterways also taking material
• Historic Scotland may also use for training

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Other Example Synergies

• Kerry Bioscience Yeast wall by-product
• EWOS Yeast walls as protein for fishmeal
• SWWS Composting of food wastes
• DSM Activated sludge from ETP
• DSM Calcium Sulphate from acid neutralisation
• Kemfine ETP surplus capacity
• Crownstone Wood-Plastic Composites
• Cellucomp Carbon nano-fibres from carrots

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IS Opportunities

• Energy recovery from Waste Co-products
• Uses for low grade heat (WFD)
• Process water recycling
• New products from existing materials
• New products from combining materials
• Identify cross-sector partnering opportunities

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Bottom Line Value, Improved Profits

• Synergies evaluated by case studies
• Approved by customers
• Audited and validated by DEFRA
• Typical IS Diversion from Landfill is under 3
  per tonne
• Landfill Tax alone is 24 per tonne (from Apr 07)
• Divert from landfill then find added value
• Reduce costs, improve profits

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Thankyou For Listening Any Questions?