Exchange or trade your waste

If you’re a North East business, National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP) will point you towards ways that other people can use your waste as a raw material, saving you money on waste disposal.

Are you paying for waste disposal? Or do you produce a by-product or spare heat? Consider this: your waste could be another business’ raw material. Selling your waste rather than paying for disposal makes perfect sense. The only question is: where do you start?

The National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP) links different businesses enabling them to exchange waste to everyone’s benefit. ‘Symbiosis’ means it’s good for everyone involved. You win, they win. You sell your by-product, they get useful raw materials. NISP is unique in that it is a business-led programme, responding directly to the needs of businesses, whatever sector that may be. Over 10,000 companies are already benefitting from this programme. To become a member is free for all UK businesses, regardless of size, turnover or sector.

The NISP North East Team can put you in touch with businesses who need your by-products or waste – perhaps businesses that you might never have thought of.

In the North East, over 800 organisations have benefitted from NISP activities, up to March 2009. Nationally, NISP has generated over £151 million in new sales for its members while helping divert more than 5.2 million tonnes of industrial waste from landfill sites in the UK.

To become a member or to receive advice, write to:

How it’s worked for a North East business:

Mineral Resource Management (MRM) is saving £10,000 a year after a chance meeting at a NISP North East Networking Event. MGM has been able to develop a long-term business arrangement with Border Laird by diverting 250 tonnes of scallop shells a year from landfill. Find out more below…