Redefining Waste - Realising Profits

Definition of Industrial Symbiosis

One company’s under exploited asset is another organisation’s opportunity

• Looking beyond sector boundaries• Encouraging cooperation and collaboration• New market opportunities within network• Increasing range of resources that have commercial value• Not limited to any particular resource: materials, energy, water, expertise, capacity, logistics….• Improving overall resource efficiency/adding to the bottom line

Cradle to Grave

Industrial Symbiosis

Business Opportunity

Landfill ↓

Jobs ↑

New Business ↑

Sales ↑

CO2 ↓

Costs ↓

Learning ↑

Transport ↓

Pollution ↓

Asset Utilisation ↑

Innovation ↑

Inward Investment ↑

Barriers ↓ Knowledge Transfer ↑

R & D ↑

Why Industrial Symbiosis?

What is SISP ?

• SISP 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

• Delivering the National Industrial Symbiosis Program (NISP) in Scotland

• Funded by Scottish Executive, Scottish Enterprise and SEPA

Delivery Model

• Speed Dating Workshops/Resource Efficiency Events

• Referrals through Partners

• Targeted Approach

Whisky – what waste?

Whisky Distillery

STEAM OAK BARRELS

GREY WATER

DISTILLERY BY-PRODUCTS TRANSPORT

Hypothetical IS potential

Whisky Distillery

Transfer to neighbouring company

for power

Donate to social enterprise making furniture Use to smoke fishFuel source

Transfer to neighbouring company as alternative to potable

Convert and sell to local farmer for animal feed

Backhaul with suitable materials

Current Projects

• Shellfish waste – working with academia to help a processor develop a new product from waste– Using crab shells to purify effluent , remove the copper

• Sandstone off-cuts – looking for alternative uses – SMAS referral• Concrete Block Manufacture – sourcing glass, trialling new materials,

looking for sites• Land remediation – using by products from manufacturing, activated

sludge, gypsum

Some of our Members

• Henry Boot Plc• Shell UK• National Farmers Union• Scottish Water• Viridor Waste Management• Shore Recycling• William Tracey Ltd• DSM• Carron Phoenix• Brand and Rae Ltd• Mitsubushi Electric• Forestry Commission• Laing O’Rourke• Community Recycling Network Scotland• WH Malcolm Ltd

• Competitive Scotland

• Marine Harvest (Scotland) Ltd

• Tes Amm (Europe) Ltd

• Falkirk Council

• Borders Machinery Ring

• BAA Edinburgh

• Lafarge Cement UK

• Network Rail

• Edinburgh University (pallets)

• St. Andrews University (mattresses)

NISP National IS Model•Helped divert more than 560,000 tonnes of waste from Landfill

•Created 154 new jobs and safeguarded an additional 260

•Cost savings to industry of more than £30,327,000

•Generated £17,711,000 in additional sales

•Private investment of more than £9,500,00 in reprocessing and recycling

•Reduced CO2 emissions by 350,000 tonnes