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Charlotte Harper Regional Manager, NISP East
Midlands
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What is symbiosis?

• Concise Oxford Dictionary, 8th Edition
• An interaction between two different organisms
  living in close physical association to the
  advantage of both

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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

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Industrial Symbiosis a circular economy
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What is NISP?

• FREE support to industry
• Funded and Sponsored by UK Government (Defra
  BERR)
• Business led initiative
• Programme Advisory Groups (PAG) Arla, Boots,
  Noble Foods etc)
• National programme, regional delivery
• 12 regional teams across the UK

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Benefits of being a NISP Member
Access to skilled and knowledgeable
practitioners with experience in delivering
industrial symbiosis Identify new business
opportunities match haves and wants across
12,500 members Facilitate fresh links between
organisations and arrange introductions/meetings
and provide long-term synergy assistance NISP
facilitated workshops

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Energy from milk

• Changes to outlets available for milk wastes
  created a need for a sustainable and cost
  effective solution
• NISP promoted the concept of anaerobic digestion
  (AD) with combined heat and power generation
  (CHP)
• 1250 tonnes per year diverted
• 32t CO2
• Cost savings on waste transport and treatment
• Additional sales for the AD plants

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Recycling packs from potato snacks

• CTO Holdings key waste streams going to landfill
  at high cost
• NISP identified potential to recycle
  polypropylene sacking and plastic trays
• Identified a local reprocessor Jayplas to
  purchase wastes
• 2,500 cost savings and 11,000 sales per year
• Diverted 55 tonnes of waste from landfill per
  year
• Additional sales for reprocessor

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Solution for poor quality effluent

• Food manufacturers existing treatment plant
  could no longer cope with high solid content
• High effluent costs and risk of failing consent
  limits
• NISP identified Treatchem solution quick
  installation dissolved air flotation plant
• Enabled compliance
• Reduced effluent costs
• Provided data for rescaling effluent treatment
  plant

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Innovative use of CO2

• Terra Nitrogen looking for innovative uses for
  its by-products
• NISP linked them with John Baarda Ltd who were
  building a 12 million greenhouse to cultivate
  over 300,000 tomato plants a year and could
  utilise CO2
• Reduced emissions of 12,500 tonnes of CO2
• Steam from plant also used to heat the
  greenhouses
• Created 65 jobs

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Current synergies

• Difficult waste streams away from landfill
• packaged food
• contaminated plastics
• Metallised polypropylene reclamation of aluminium
  and low grade plastics
• Food fit for consumption to social enterprises
  and disadvantaged
• Food wastes to pig feed, vermiculture, anaerobic
  digestion

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NISP REDUCES
NISP INCREASES

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

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

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NISP Achievements
Metrics 2005 2009 Delivery
Increased sales 140m
Cost savings to business 116m
Private Capital Investment 66.7m
Virgin raw material savings (tonnes) 6.3m
Carbon savings (tonnes) 4.6m
Water savings (tonnes) 9.3m
Waste diverted from landfill (tonnes) 4.1m
Hazardous waste saving (tonnes) 0.3m
Jobs Created / Safeguarded 2165
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Quick Wins Workshop

• 8th December
• Towcester Racecourse, Northamptonshire
• Free half day event
• Contact Tina.Ward_at_nisp.org.uk

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Thank you! charlotte.harper_at_nisp.org.uk www.nisp.o
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