By operating as an independent facilitator enables our practitioners to bring together companies of all shapes and sizes across traditional sector and industry boundaries.
The programme’s strength over other resource efficiency initiatives is that it is driven by the demands of businesses it works with, responding to and helping to overcome genuine industry issues. To do this effectively each region works alongside a programme advisory group. This group is made up of leading local industry and business representatives who help steer the regional scheme.
By having a regionally delivered but linked national programme, business problems identified in one region can often have solutions developed in a second and benefits delivered in a third.
NISP also works closely in partnership with the Resource Efficiency Knowledge Transfer Network, Environment Agency and the Local Government Association (LGA). Such relationships are important and help to resolve issues that may restrict resource efficiency and link them to local policy on planning, transport and sustainable purchasing.
Since NISP was launched in April 2005, we have made a significant impact on the UK economy and our environmental achievements also make impressive reading.
Each of our 12 regions has output targets. These are recorded by a unique case study methodology that reports actual achievements as verified by the companies themselves. All programme outputs are externally verified.
Since April 2005 NISP has:
helped divert over 3.4 million tonnes of industrial waste from landfill across the UK
generated £123 million in new sales for its members
reduced carbon emissions by over 4.4 million tonnes
saved its members over £103 million
eliminated 333,000 tonnes of hazardous waste
created and safeguarded 1870 jobs
saved 5.99 million tonnes of virgin material being used in the UK
attracted over £110 million in private investment in reprocessing and recycling
saved over 9.2 million tonnes of potable water
