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LATEST NEWS
1. Industrial Symbiosis - helping businesses thrive in difficult times
2. £31 million savings highlighted in Northern Ireland
3. Riding the recyclable storm
4. Synergy Spotlight
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1. Helping businesses thrive in difficult times |
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Incorporating the industrial symbiosis approach into company business strategy is helping a number of NISP members to buck the trend and positively thrive in today’s testing economic climate. "Businesses from every industrial sector are beginning to feel the pinch," said Peter Laybourn, NISP Programme Director. |
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"This has resulted in greater pressure to introduce measures to cut back on spending in order to secure their long term prospects. This is where NISP is helping make a difference. Those businesses that have embedded the industrial symbiosis approach into their respective company’s strategy have made significant savings and boosted profits by managing their resources in a more effective way." Read more...
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2. £31 million savings highlighted in Northern Ireland |
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Over the last year NISP’s Northern Ireland office has identified potential cost savings of more than £31 million pounds through a series of events targeting key industry sectors in the country. Working closely with the food & drink, construction, plastics, engineering & manufacturing and the automotive sectors, the NISP Northern Ireland team has earmarked over 600,000 tonnes of material and resources prime for recovery and reuse. |
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If this potential is realised it will result in cost savings of £31 million for the companies involved.
Funded by Invest Northern Ireland (INI), the NISP NI office has brought together companies from different industry sectors in a collaborative approach to share knowledge, expertise and resources. Read more...
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3. Riding the recyclable storm |
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With a recent slump in demand for recyclable materials such as paper, glass and aluminium an increasing number of members are turning to NISP to help them ride the recyclable storm. |
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Andrew Gadd, Regional Co-ordinator for NISP Yorkshire and Humber explains: "One option for companies to deal effectively with recyclables in today's climate is to switch to a closed-loop recycling system."
"This means that transit materials such as pallets, trays and boxes can be recovered and refurbished for use by the originating company rather than being channeled into an already congested recycling market."
Read more...
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4. Synergy Spotlight |
Over the last twelve months more than 2,500 companies have signed up the benefits of being a NISP member. Not least the opportunity to learn how other businesses are working together to generate new revenue streams, save money on landfill and other disposal costs and reduce the amounts of carbon and waste they are producing. Over the last year NISP's twelve teams of specially trained industrial symbiosis practitioners have been working with companies big and small, from every industrial, retail and commercial sector to identify and complete 325 mutually profitable links. Here is a round up of some of the many successful synergies from the last twelve months...
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NEWS IN BRIEF |
Best Western Hosts a Grott-y Guest |
Following the successful trial of the Grott Box in schools last summer, no fewer than 6 waste management companies are now considering incorporating the Grott Box into their portfolios with one national company already placing its first order. The product has generated a great deal of interest from offices, housing groups, hotels, manufacturing sites, cafes and care homes.
The Best Western Hotel in Doncaster is currently trialing the Grott Box to assess its ability to capture the significant volumes of buffet waste generated by business and social events at the venue. NISP believes there is a significant business opportunity for this product in the hospitality sector, offering a recycling route that has the potential to allow hotels to generate income from the sale of the service to event bookings as well as contributing to their Corporate and Social Responsibility commitments. Hotels and catering establishments with regular (buffet) events are requested to contact NISP Yorkshire and Humber to discuss opportunities. |
John Lewis Partnership's plastic penny saver |
As the country’s retailers prepare for a testing 2009, NISP is helping the John Lewis Partnership look after the pennies in the hope that it saves pounds in a scheme that sees acrylic point of sale material from its 25 stores being recovered, reprocessed and reused in the production of plastic building products such as kerbstones.
NISP London member Express Plastics and Recycling Limited has a plastics reprocessing site in East London that grades, washes, sorts and granulates various grades of plastic. Thanks to NISP John Lewis is no longer paying £500 a year to dispose of its acrylic displays but working with Express Plastics who collect the waste from the company’s stores and reprocess it for use in manufacturing process for a host of building products. |
TESTIMONIALS |
Joan Ruddock MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary – Climate Change, Biodiversity and Waste |
"NISP has undoubtedly scored a number of outstanding achievements, bringing a range of environmental, social and economic benefits and has become a very successful carbon reduction programme." |
Manel Roura, Environment Officer for DENSO Manufacturing U.K. |
"DENSO is always looking to improve its commercial performance – and thanks to NISP we are not only saving the company over £30,000 a year, but also making a contribution to reduce the company’s carbon footprint." |
Alan Young, Head of Waste at Thames Water |
"The NISP approach provides an excellent format for companies such as Thames Water to benefit from. The introductions to companies brokered by the NISP team have allowed far reaching relationships to be formed that will ensure cost benefits for years to come." |
John Daft, Project Manager for Birse Civils |
"Sustainability is a key issue for Birse. Working with NISP has given the company a competitive edge in that the programme team is able to identify and facilitate the sourcing of sustainable materials for many of our projects here in the West Midlands." |
Richard Laxton, Work & Environment Compliance Advisor for Arla Foods |
"Being part of a network like NISP means that we're able to tap into some of the UK's best expertise on reducing business waste by incorporating an industrial symbiosis approach to business. What has impressed me most is the number of potential business opportunities the NISP team has identified for Arla. I have yet to come away from an event or workshop without at least one potential synergy being highlighted that would result in the company saving money and further reducing its waste." |
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