Nothing goes to waste at resourceful finditinbirmingham breakfast meeting
Birmingham businesses made sure they weren’t throwing away opportunities at a special waste and recycling-themed networking event last week. More than 75 business owners, directors and senior managers gathered at the latest finditinbirmingham breakfast meeting to hear from NISP (National Industrial Symbiosis Programme), A&R Recycling Ltd and Birmingham City Council. Peter Levett and Kym Miller … Read more
Industrial Symbiosis: Companies Reclaiming Each Other’s Waste
By connecting companies in unrelated fields that don’t normally communicate, a British agency is recycling industrial waste to cut carbon, save money, and stop filling landfills. “Industrial symbiosis” is a grand name for something simple: one company using another’s waste for some useful purpose. It’s about bringing companies together from different sectors and finding the … Read more
www.finditinbirmingham.com – Breakfast meeting delivers ‘fascinating’ inspiration
‘Inspiring’, ‘fascinating’ and ‘exciting’ were some of the comments we heard about one of the presentations at our last breakfast meeting. Peter Levett and Kym Miller of the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP) delivered an in-depth explanation of their organisation’s work and its potential benefits to businesses. NISP describes its purpose as “encouraging companies to … Read more
Collaborative Consumption and Industrial Symbiosis – Two New Approaches to Waste in Cities
As we continue to consume at unsustainable rates, dealing with waste is an epic task for many cities. In this post, Gareth Pearson of Future Cape Town reinterprets ‘waste’, looking at two new systems that could change the way our cities function. When we think of waste, we think of something that is of no use. We … Read more
DENSO has it’s cake and h-eats it!
Since DENSO Manufacturing UK successfully achieved zero waste to landfill in 2006, the company had concentrated its efforts on improving resource efficiency and increasing productivity across all of its manufacturing processes. The company had already established a sustainable disposal route for waste filter cake generated as part of its process, but was keen to identify … Read more
Green Week Supplement 2011: Changing the Way We Look At Waste with Peter Laybourn, CEO International Synergies Limited
EU Businesses are increasingly rethinking their approach to waste, converting materials that would once have been landfilled or incinerated into a reusable resource. The challenge is to broaden the trend to create a truly ‘circular economy’. Replacing the traditional linear approach to resource use can cut the costs associated with waste disposal, spare virgin resources … Read more
NISP Influences Euro Call to Exploit Industrial Symbiosis
At the launch of its Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe last week, the European Commission called for its member states to exploit industrial symbiosis and uses the example of International Synergies NISP to demonstrate how Europe could boost its economy by 3 billion if the programme model was replicated across all 27 member states. … Read more
