As the World’s leaders debate Climate Change at COP 15, closer to home the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme has unveiled its own ‘Pathway to a Low Carbon Sustainable Economy'.

Regional Minister for the West Midlands, Ian Austin, visited the Birmingham offices of the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP) yesterday to learn about the impact it has made on both the economy and environment.


Colton Environmental Services were contracted by Bellway/Persimmon Homes joint venture at Tunstall Vale, Ryhope, Sunderland to clean-up and rework the site. Using NISP principles Colton Environmental sorted and recycled the material meaning that 99.6% of the material which would previously have gone to landfill was reused