James Woodcock 12.3.2013: Case Study Examples

© International Synergies Limited

Version date 25 February 2013

Finland

Case Study Examples

James Woodcock International Coordinator

International Synergies Limited



United Kingdom Ongoing

NISP England, Scotland, N. Ireland & Wales

Defra, Scottish Government, Invest

Northern Ireland, Welsh Government

Slovakia Complete

Reducing Production Waste

by Industrial Symbiosis Bratislavsky kraj

ERDF

Hungary Ongoing

NISP Hungary Kozep-Magyarorszag, Budapest

European Union Life+ Climate KIC

Turkey Ongoing

NISP Turkey Iskenderun Bay area

BP

South Korea Ongoing Co-operation on Eco-Park

Development

China Ongoing

Tianjin Economic Development

Area Industrial Symbiosis Network Tianjin

European Union Switch Asia

China Complete

Pilot Project – Circular Economy Yunnan Province

Defra – Sustainable

Development Dialogues

Romania Complete ECOREG

Suceava

European Union Life+

Brazil Ongoing

NISP Brazil Minas Gerais



Al-Invest

Mexico Complete

NISP Mexico Toluca Lerma



South Africa Complete

South Africa Industrial

Symbiosis Pilot Programme Gauteng Province



Poland Ongoing

EUR-IS Wroclaw

Climate KIC

Netherlands Ongoing Limburg

Replication already happening

Belgium Ongoing

essenscia Brussels

Finland Ongoing

Motiva / SITRA Helsinki



Success in Europe - Romania

• Romania Synergy Major international wood processor

20 Wood producers

Sawdust / Wood chips / Boards from trunk trimming

• Total resources – 446,100 tonnes

Virgin forest saved – 2,558 Hectares

Deforestation major issue in region – leading

to increased flooding



Success in Brazil

• 30,000 tonnes ash replaced clay in

brick manufacture

• Carbon content of ash reduced firing

time by 30%

• Increased production and cost savings



Sludge reutilization

Tianjin SembCorp Sewage Treatment Co. , Ltd.

operates a sewage treatment plant in Tianjin

Harbor Industrial Park.

The HanGu landfill site doesn't receive sludge

according to the new policy in TBNA.

A safe and economical method for sludge

treatment is in great need.

Yuchuan is a professional sludge treatment

company, whose core technology is extracting

protein from sludge for the manufacturing of

protein products.

The two companies met in the 9th QWW and

came up with a potential synergy.

Yuchuan receives 15 tons of sludge from

SembCorp per month.

The Solution

The Challenge

The Results

Businesses Assisted: 2

Additional Sales:

70,000Yuan

Cost Savings: 464,000

Yuan

Landfill Diverted: 180

t/year

Virgin Materials: 180

t/year

China Project Results



Splitting the sludge



Cellular concrete



Fruitful Collaboration

Terra Nitrogen: Industry produces derivatives of nitrogen and methanol.

Waste:12,500 tonnes of CO2 released to atmosphere, hot steam and ammonia.

John Baarda: Tomato producer

Additional production capacity limited due to high costs of energy

Partnership

•Elimination of CO2 emissions

•Construction of a greenhouse capable of producing 300,000

tomatoes per year

•Investment of £15M

•Creation of 65 new jobs

•Recovery of heat from steam



Contaminated Plastic

Recycling

The Challenge • A G Barr, striving for zero manufacturing waste to landfill by 2015

• Approached NISP with a problematic waste - plastics contaminated with syrup.

• NISP put them in touch with Forth Valley Recycling and Packaging (FVRP)

The Results • CO2 Reduction: 1,533 T

• Cost Savings: £14,675.00 (reduced skip uplifts from 6 to 2)

• Landfill Diverted: 120 T (contributed to a 70% recycling rate)

• Virgin Materials: 120 T

“NISP very quickly identified a company who could take, and recycle, a growing

and problematic plastic waste stream of ours. This has greatly reduced our

landfill costs and helped us on our way to sending zero waste to landfill.”

Andrew Walkden - A G Barr (Environment Officer)



Cambridgeshire Guided

Busway

• Cambridgeshire County Council is in the process of

building the longest guided busway in the world.

• NISP working on CGB at site clearance stage:

– Outlet found for 20,000 railway sleepers

– Sourced 3,000T of recycled aggregated for temporary

roads

• Request to source 60,000m3 of drainage material

– NISP proposed tyre shred as an alternative



NISP facilitation

• Tyre recyclers introduced to

Major Contractor

• 18,000T of tyre shred used

• Replaced 60,000T of aggregate

Outcomes

• Significant project cost savings

• >6,000 tonne CO2 saved

• Replication for next project

Cambridgeshire Guided

Busway



DENSO Flux and Mil-Ver Metals

• DENSO Manufacturing in automotive supply chain

• 15te of Hazardous Material from

radiator coating process per

year.

• 242te of carbon reduction per

year

• NISP facilitated link to

Aluminium secondary smelter

• Able to use flux material in

manufacturing process

• €45k Cost Savings per year –

from waste disposal and resource input



OECD Identifies IS as Critical to

Growth Agenda

OECD has recently declared industrial symbiosis

‘a la NISP’ to be “an excellent example of systemic

innovation vital for future green growth”

Pollution Control

Cleaner Production

Eco-efficiency Lifecycle

Management Closed-loop Production

Industrial Symbiosis

Green products

Eco-design

New business models

New modes of provision

Mass application Product & Service

Production Process

Organisational Boundary

Incremental Innovation Systemic Innovation

Transformation Transformation



IS Transforms Individual Businesses:

e.g. John Pointon & Sons Ltd • Pre – NISP: animal renderer

inputs: carcasses

outputs: landfill

perception: dirty industry

• Initial NISP stage: animal by-products diverted from landfill to cement industry

• Second stage: improved efficiency of processes

• Third stage: move into bio-fuels utilising more by-product

• Fourth stage: move to AD and grid connection

• Fifth stage: transfer in of innovative technologies

• Current situation

inputs: carcasses, organic residues

outputs: energy, minerals

vision: clean energy company

“Long term culture change

needs long term business

engagement”

Transformation



Business Solution

for Foundry Waste

• Links to foundries via Cast Metal Federation

• Identified ways to reuse spent foundry sand to brick manufacture

• Sustainable solution rather than landfill

• Additional Sales - £200k

• Landfill Diversion – 10,000 te

• Cost Savings - £300k

• Virgin Materials – 10,000 te

• Jobs Saved - 42

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A Powerful Alliance for Subcontractors WPD and East Alliance Partners

NISP worked with WPD (then E-on) to

increase the amount of recycled

aggregates used on sites and reduce

landfill costs via their contractors.

NISP created a Workspace so data about

local recyclers could be shared between

the East Alliance Partners. One common

Compliance Checklist was created which

amalgamated the individual Partners’

forms. This was used to assess new suppliers

joining the Framework.

The results include:

•Diversion from landfill: 73260 tonnes

•CO2 reduction: 168 tonnes

•Cost savings: £76077 per year

Central Networks Alliance SUPPLIERS COMPLIANCE

CHECKLIST/QUESTIONNAIRE

Plant Operator

Local address

Registered address

What Geographic/Highway Authority areas can you supply to?

YES NO Waste Management requirements (QP ref* 3.4.1, 3.4.4, 3.6.1 and 3.7.1)

Does your recycling operation have the required environmental permit/waste management

licensing/exemptions and is the Duty of Care applied?

NOTE: You must demonstrate that you meet the statutory and regulatory requirements, including use of registered waste

carriers and Waste Transfer Notes (WTNs). Please consult the Guidance Notes for further details.

Do you hold a Waste Carriers Licence?

Have you had any EA prosecutions in the last 3 years?

Acceptance of incoming waste (QP ref 3.4.1 to 3.4.4 and App C)

Do you have site/location specific Acceptance Criteria procedures for the incoming waste?

Do your Acceptance Criteria include a description of the types of waste accepted and a

description of the method of acceptance?

NOTE: List of Waste Regulations/European Waste Code for consistency with the WTNs must be used. You must

demonstrate that only inert waste is accepted for production of aggregates to the Quality Protocol. Inspection at receipt

and at tipping must be carried out.

Please list what EWC codes the site/ location can accept?

Are material input records kept?

NOTE: A record of each load received and accepted must be kept

Do you have a procedure for non-compliant waste?

NOTE: You must demonstrate how you are dealing with non-conforming incoming waste. Please consult the Guidance

Notes for further details.



Water

Rejected Loads

Incineration

ORM

Crestmont Indigo Waste

Vermiculture

Aggregate Production

Construction

HotRot Organic Solutions

Greenview Technologies

Biogen

Donarbon

Waste Paper

Gulf Star Oil

Revalue Technologies

Plasgran

Chase Plastics

Screening Materials

Newport Paper,

Indigo Waste,

Pearsons,

Donarbon,

M W White

Viridor

Shred Secure

Control Group

Kelstone Recycling

Anglian Confidential

Bywaters

May Gurney

Power

Paper Sludge & Ash

Soil Conditioning

Organics

Plastics

BHM

Sutton Services

GKL Northern

Milbank

Dickerson Group

Centrico

RTAL

Alternative Use

PREL

Minergy

Advanced Plasma Power

Waterwise

Anglian Water

Bettaland

Freedom Recycling

AWO Bedford

Localfast Akristos

Hanson Aggregates

RTAL

Eco Aggregates

Southfields Group

S Walsh

Tarmac Recycling

Paper Co.



Thank You

• James Woodcock

International Coordinator

Phone : +44 121 433 2650

E-mail : [email protected]

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