Recyclates Market - Rushlight Events€¦ · opportunities for reuse deriving from many partners • Solution: ISL created a common Workspace and Compliance Checklist for assessing

© Copyright International Synergies Limited - 2013

(The changing face of the)

Recyclates Market:

Rachel Lombardi Director of Business Development

International Synergies Limited

London 24th September 2013 Forbury Investment Network


• Markets for traditional recyclates are well established

• Industrial symbiosis is creating the market for a broader class of

resources

• External drivers stimulating mainstream transformation

• New commercial model is as yet unclear

An Industrial Symbiosis Perspective on Recyclates


Established recyclates markets

• Metals

• Glass

• Card, paper

• (Some) plastics

Developing:

• Wood

• Foundry sands

• Food waste

• (Other) plastics


Industrial Symbiosis Creating new Markets for Recyclates

Broadens the resources captured beyond established recyclates markets (paper, card, glass, etc)

Increasing innovation, decreasing competition


Industrial Symbiosis Creating new Markets for Recyclates

Broadens the resources captured beyond established recyclates markets (paper, card, glass, etc)

Increasing innovation, decreasing competition


Industrial symbiosis – move to a circular economy

Linear system

Products Natural

Resources

“Waste”

Transition to a Circular economy

Natural resources

Products

Products

Waste to Resource

Natural Resources


Elements of Industrial Symbiosis

• Network of diverse organisations

• Fostering eco-innovation and long-term culture change

• Yielding profitable transactions in:

- Novel sourcing of inputs

- Value added destinations for non-product outputs

- Improved business and technical processes

Lombardi & Laybourn, 2012, Journal of Industrial Ecology 16(1):28-37


Resource information from many companies

Our Process: Collect information from companies


•Opportunity Identified and Assessed by Expert Practitioners •Companies Approached •Opportunity Facilitated to Closure

Our Process: Identify and facilitate opportunities


NISP (England) Delivered Outcomes: Economic, Environmental, Social

METRICS In Year Benefits* Lifetime Impact (Max 5 year)

Landfill diversion 9 million tonnes 45 million tonnes

CO2 reduction 8 million tonnes 39 million tonnes

Virgin material savings 12 million tonnes 58 million tonnes

Hazardous waste eliminated 0.4 million tonnes 2 million tonnes

Water savings 14 million tonnes 71 million tonnes

Cost savings €243 million €1.21 billion

Additional sales €234 million €1.71 billion

Jobs 10,000+

Private investment €374 million

€40 million investment 2005-2012 *all outputs independently verified

Rate Euro £1 = €1.18


Unit Benefit Realised In Year Spend

Lifetime Spend

€1 new income generated for industry €0.02 €0.005

€1 saved by UK industry €0.02 €0.005

1 tonne of virgin material saved €0.48 €0.100

1 tonne of water saved €0.40 €0.080

1 tonne of CO2 reduced €0.73 €0.150

1 tonne of waste diverted from landfill €0.64 €0.130

1 tonne of hazardous waste eliminated €13.74 €2.740

Excellent Return on Investment April 2005 - March 2012

Rate Euro £1 = €1.18


• Immediate demand pull of R&D and technology innovation (including design)

• University of Birmingham study found a high level of

innovation in synergies - 50% involved best available practice - 20% involved new research and development

Technology and Innovation: Eco-Innovation Exemplar


Eco-innovation in products

Key stage for school dinners

• Challenge: food waste going to landfill

• Solution: “Grott Box”, waterproof

cardboard box with wax layer and snug lid,

entirely biodegradable, used to collect

food waste from schools

• 20,000 primary and 4,000 Secondary

Schools = potentially 50-75,000 tonnes per

year of food waste from these sources

alone


Eco-innovation in process

Recovering Precious Metals from X-Ray films • Challenge: Change to X-ray films made existing

process ineffective

• Solution: Engage with University innovation

providers to change to process

• Parties involved: Betts Envirometal, University of

Birmingham & International Synergies IS network

• CO2-eq reduction (24 kt) • Eco-Innovation and Green Growth • Materials security • Regional Economic Development (11 jobs)


Eco-innovation in business process

• Challenge: effectively managing

opportunities for reuse deriving from many

partners

• Solution: ISL created a common Workspace

and Compliance Checklist for assessing local

solution providers and new suppliers

The results include:

•Diversion from landfill: 73260 tonnes

•CO2 reduction: 168 tonnes

•Cost savings: £76077 per year

Aggregate reuse – Subcontractor Alliance


Economic impact of Industrial Symbiosis

• Micro: Individual businesses –

• Cost of raw materials

• Cost of waste disposal

• Revenue from new products

• Macro: UK Economy –

• Economic return on investment for UK Government

• Stimulates (eco-) innovation


Industrial Symbiosis across Europe: Cusp of Transformation


Economic Drivers for Industrial Symbiosis in Europe

• Volatility of resource pricing

• McKinsey report, Resource Revolution

• 14 critical raw materials identified by EU at risk (about to rise)

• Rising awareness of sustainability issues (eg PlasticsEurope)

• EU policy incorporating IS across Directorate Generals

• Carbon Trading to include Scope 3 emissions (DG Climate Action)

Imperative for practical approaches to create growth


• European Waste Framework Directive - Best Practice (2009)

• Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe (2011) – exemplar case study

• DG Enterprise: Sustainable Industry-Going for Growth & Resource Efficiency (2011) – exemplar case study

• DG Regions: Connecting Smart and Sustainable Growth through Smart Specialisation – exemplar case study (2012)

• European Resource Efficiency Platform (2013) key recommendation

• DG Environment: Priority for industrial policy in (2013) recommendation

• DG Enterprise: Communique on Green Entrepreneurship (2013) • Horizon 2020 (draft 2013) included to deliver circular economy

European Policies Promote Industrial Symbiosis for Green Growth


OECD Identifies Industrial Symbiosis 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


NISP Equivalent Achievements if Applied at EU27*

5 Year Impact

Additional Sales €7,480,000,000

Cost Reduced €7,064,000,000

CO2 Reduction 252,000,000 Tonnes

Water saved 461,000,000 Tonnes

Virgin Materials Saved 381,000,000 Tonnes

Waste Diverted from Landfill 281,000,000 Tonnes

Hazardous Waste Eliminated 14,560,000 Tonnes

Transition to Green Jobs 100,000 Jobs

* Based on equivalent Gross Domestic Product contribution of EU Member States

Potential Impact of Industrial Symbiosis for the EU


International Synergies


International Synergies – Our Vision

"Striving to lead the world in innovative industrial ecology solutions for a low carbon,

sustainable economy"


Introducing International Synergies (ISL)

• Birmingham-based SME with 30 employees

• Offices in Birmingham, Brussels and Belfast

• Specialists in Industrial Ecology Solutions

(World leader in industrial symbiosis)

• Clients from public and private sector

• Experience in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, South Africa, Slovenia, South Korea, Turkey, UK, USA


International Synergies’ Global Experience

Hungary NISP Hungary Kozep-Magyarorszag, Budapest

European Union Life+ Climate KIC

Turkey NISP Turkey Iskenderun Bay area

BP

South Korea Co-operation on Eco-Park

Development

China Tianjin Economic Development

Area Industrial Symbiosis Network Tianjin

China Pilot Project – Circular Economy Yunnan Province

Romania ECOREG

Suceava

European Union Life+

Mexico NISP Mexico Toluca Lerma

South Africa Western Cape Industrial

Symbiosis Programme Western Cape

Provincial Government

Poland EUR-IS Wroclaw

Climate KIC

Belgium National essenscia

Brazil NISP Brazil Minas Gerais

Italy Rome ENEA

Netherlands Limburg Province of Limburg

Slovakia Reducing Production Waste

by Industrial Symbiosis Bratislavsky kraj

United Kingdom NISP

Finland National Motiva/

SITRA

South Africa South Africa Industrial

Symbiosis Pilot Programme Gauteng Province

China Intro of IS to Jiangsu Province Jiangsu Province

UK FCO/GIZ


International Synergies Limited and NISP: Recognition from all sectors

NISP is accredited by the European Commission as an Exemplar of Eco-Innovation through its Environmental Technologies Action Plan

2007

OECD declares Industrial Symbiosis “a la NISP” an “excellent example of systemic innovation vital for future green growth”

2010 International Synergies received the Environmental Excellence Award for Best Carbon Reduction Programme for NISP

2010

NISP highlighted as 1 of 20 Worldwide Green Game Changing Innovations in a report commissioned by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

2010

British Expertise International Award for implementing the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme on a Global Scale

2009

2013

International Synergies organises a Public Private Partnership on industrial symbiosis for the Global Green Growth Forum (3GF) 2013

2013 Chief Executive, is short-listed for Edie.net’s Sustainability Leader of the Year Award

Worldwatch Institute Europe, Best Practice Business Innovation in a Living Economy features NISP as exemplar

http://www.edie.net/

http://www.britishexpertise.org/bx/pages/bx.php

http://www.worldwatch-europe.org/

http://www.edie.net/


Takeaway

• Markets for traditional recyclates are well established

• Industrial symbiosis is creating the market for a broader class of

resources

• External drivers stimulating mainstream transformation

• Commercial model as yet unclear


Rachel Lombardi Director of Business Development International Synergies Limited

t: +44 (0) 121 433 2660 dl: +44 (0) 121 433 2682

e: [email protected] www.international-synergies.com

@IntlSynergies @NISPnetwork

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