Exchange or trade your waste
If you’re a North East business, we’ll 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.
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 500 organisations were benefiting from NISP activities, up to March 2007. Nationally, NISP has generated over £47 million in new sales for its members while helping divert more than 1.1 million tonnes of industrial waste from landfill sites in the UK.
- the team will help you identify useful by-products
- they’ll also help link you with potential customers
- they’re based locally in the North East
Get in touch now:
NISP North Eastc/o CLEMANCE,School of Science and Technology,University of Teesside,Middlesbrough TS1 3BA.01642 342409northeast@nisp.org.uk www.nisp.org.uk (select North East from the ‘Regional links’ drop down menu on the home page)How it’s worked for a North East business:
Procter and Gamble is saving up to £10,000 a year after a chance meeting at a NISP North East Quick Wins Workshop. Procter and Gamble has been able to develop a long-term business arrangement with WesChem that is diverting 200 tonnes of washing powder a year from landfill. Find out more…