Redefining Waste Realising Profits

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Redefining Waste - Realising Profits
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Definition of Industrial Symbiosis

• One companys under exploited asset is another
  organisations 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

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Cradle to Grave
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Industrial Symbiosis
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Why Industrial Symbiosis?
Business Opportunity

Landfill ?
Jobs ?
New Business ?
Sales ?
CO2 ?
Costs ?
Transport ?
Pollution ?
Asset Utilisation ?

Inward Investment ?
Learning ?
Innovation ?
Barriers ?
Knowledge Transfer ?

R D ?
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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

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Delivery Model

• Speed Dating Workshops/Resource Efficiency Events
• Referrals through Partners
• Targeted Approach

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Whisky what waste?
STEAM
OAK BARRELS
Whisky Distillery
DISTILLERY BY-PRODUCTS
TRANSPORT
GREY WATER
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Hypothetical IS potential
Donate to social enterprise making furniture Use
to smoke fish Fuel source
Transfer to neighbouring company for power
Whisky Distillery
Convert and sell to local farmer for animal feed
Backhaul with suitable materials
Transfer to neighbouring company as alternative
to potable
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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

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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 ORourke
• 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)

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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