Peter Laybourn 11.10.2013: Connecting industry, creating opportunity through the sustainable use of natural resources

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Connecting industry, creating opportunity through the sustainable use of natural resources

Peter Laybourn Chief Executive

International Synergies Limited

10th October 2013


Industrial Symbiosis – Move to a Circular Economy

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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


• World’s first national programme (since 2005)

• 15,000 businesses, all sizes and sectors

• Regional practitioner (delivery) teams,

nationally co-ordinated

• Business-led Advisory Groups

• Benefits:

₋ Reduced costs, increased revenues, reduced waste to landfill

₋ Job safeguarding and creation

₋ Reduced virgin material, water use, CO2 emissions

• Benefits of national model are substantial

International Synergies’ NISP (National Industrial Symbiosis Programme)


NISP has engaged 15,000+ organisations

•All resources • SMEs represent 90% of membership

CORPORATES SMEs MICROS • Anglian Water Services Ltd • BAE Systems • Balfour Beatty • Bombardier • Denso Manufacturing Ltd • Diageo • Foster Yeoman • HSBC • Jaguar Land Rover • Johnson Matthey • Michelin • Peel Group • RICOH UK Products Ltd • SITA • TATA • Toyota • UK Coal Plc • Veolia

• Alutrade • Arden Wood Shavings • Befesa Salt Slags • Bio Waste Solutions • BIP Oldbury • Coldwater Seaford Ltd • County Mulch • Delkia Bio-energy • Farrow & Ball • Firth Rixson Castings • G&P Batteries • Giffords • Glendale Grounds

Maintenance • GPD Developments • Green Tech Ltd • Guala Closures Ltd • H Sivyer • Howarth Timber

Engineering

• Jack Moody Holdings • JBR Recovery • John Pointon & Sons

Ltd • Kingpin • LC Energy • Lower Reule Bio Energy • McGrath Barr • MJ Allen • Montracon • New Earth Solutions • Ramfoam Ltd • Recycled UK • Renewable Energy

Growers • Teknor Apex • Westland Horticulture • Works infrastructure

Ltd

• Advantage Waste Solution • Akristos • Analytichem • Angelheart Inc • Arrow Environmental • Blendcheck Ltd • Clarkson Enterprises • Dinano • Ecoideam • Enviro (Grimsby) • Facility Water

Management • John Carson Innovations • Kito Engineering Solutions • Manufacturing Production

Solutions • Ross Miller Farm • TVLI • Waste Check Ltd • Whitby Recycling Services

KEY POINTS • All sizes - Multi-nationals, SMEs, Micros, Entrepreneurs • All sectors


Workshops

Opportunity Mapping


Thousands of Case Studies


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


Lessons Learned – NISP could have been better!

• Economics and dynamics not fully understood by UK Government (big return on investment of between 6:1 and 9:1 to Government in additional direct tax revenues) + all the other benefits

• No diminishing returns! In fact the opposite

• Limited by contract on sectors, materials, municipalities constrained success (antithesis of industrial symbiosis)!

• Not engaging Government departments was a missed opportunity (exception Prison Service)


• Loss of key partners harmed programme

˗ Innovation Managers (reduced investment)

˗ Regional Development Agencies (abolished by UK Government)

˗ Environment Agency (re-focused priorities)

• Government support was weak (no promotion)

• Classifying as “waste” constrains success (limited to environment)

• Industrial symbiosis addresses market failure of information

Lessons Learned – continued...

En ollut ajatellut, että muitakin kuin pääraaka-aine ja päätuotteita voisi symbioosilla löytyä

- Pekko Kohonen Recoil Oy

Ota yhteyttä!

Susanna Perko 0294 618 250 [email protected]

Paula Eskola 040 555 29 61 [email protected]

Uutta liiketoimintaa teollisista symbiooseista -työpaja Korjaamo, Helsinki 12.4.2012

Tiistaina 11.3. järjestettiin Pohjoismaiden ensimmäinen teollisia symbiooseja edistävä NISP-työpaja Korjaamolla. Aamupäivän aikana potentiaalisia synergioita, resurssien tarjoajien ja hyödyntäjien kohtaamisia, löytyi todella hyvin, jopa yli odotusten. Neljän pöydän ääreen kokoontuneet yritysten edustajat tunnistivat kaikkiaan 165 resurssia ja mahdollisia synergioita jo 119. Osa osallistujista keskittyi ideomaan, miten tällaista toimintamallia kannatta kehittää Suomessa ja miten eri toimijat osallistuisivat tähän. Todettiin että eri puolilla Suomea on paljon osaamista ja hankkeita juuri resurssien tehokkaamman hyödyntämisen mahdollistamiseen. Tästä on hyvä lähteä kehittämään uusia symbiooseja Suomessa!

Osallistujat Turun amk Gaia Group Oy Ajon Apu Oy Indufor Oy SYKE Fortum Oy Mikkelin amk Aalto-yliopisto St1 Biofuels Oy Metsä Group Uusioaines Oy Kouvola Innovation Oy PBI UPM Kierrätysverkko Oy Spinverse Consulting Oy Kemira Oyj L&T Recoil Oy Ekokem Oy Ab Muotoilutoimisto Kaisa K SITA Suomi Oy Tikkurila Oyj Lassila & Tikanoja Oyj Forchem Oy Oy Sinebrychoff Ab Risain Oy HSY CEE-Centre for Environment and Energy Digipolis Oy EcoChange Oy Ferroplan Oy Neste Oil Corporation Ahlstrom Oyj Ympäristöyritysten liitto ry Tekes FSKK Oy

Miten symbioosien verkosto kehittyy seuraavaksi? • Seuraava työpaja 11.4 Jyväskylässä • Resurssitiedot viedään yhteiseen tietokantaan. • Tietokantaa täydennetään eri tavoin • Tietokannan avulla tunnistetaan uusia synergioita ja niiden

toteutumista vauhditetaan

Mitä työpajan jälkeen? • Sinulle lähetetään yritys/ organisaatiokohtainen synergiaraportti • Käynnistä keskustelut mahdollisten yhteistyökumppaneiden kanssa

edistääksesi mahdollisia synergioitasi. Tähän voit saada apua työpajan järjestäjiltä

• Olemme käytettävissäsi, ole aktiivinen, pyydä apua, haluamme seurata synergioiden edistymistä.

Mentiin hyvin kokreettisiin asioihin. Niiden pohjalta oli helppoa muodostaa näkemys mitä on tarjolla ja haussa

- Maarit Leppänen SITA Finland Oy

mailto:[email protected]

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Example of Synergies Found in Jyväskylä Workshop

Biorefinery, BioGTS Biogas and biodiesel production, building will start 2013 • Raw materials, grease containing materials from industry and

services (e.g. restaurants) • Survey of raw material potential and logistics ongoing

Food prouction industry • Grease containing wastes

from meet refining • Dairy grease containing

wastes • Fish guts

RAW MATERIALS LOGISTICS TECHNOLOGY

Logistics and transport • Transport services • Use of biodiesel in

vehicles

Energy production • Interest in technology

(biofuels using motors)


Innovation is key to Industrial Symbiosis

“Innovation occurs at the intersection of expertise, diversity and opportunity driven by making novel

connections”


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 and 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 Models

From Dirty Industry to Clean Energy Company

• Animal renderer

• Initial NISP engagement: by-products diverted from

landfill to cement industry

• Second stage: improve efficiency of processes

• Third stage: move into bio-fuels

• Fourth stage: anaerobic digestion and grid connection

• Result: new vision as energy company (same inputs!)


Meat and bone meal to pet food and cement

Bio-fuels

Produce electricity

Community support for new site

INPUTS Process Changes OUTPUTS

Eco-innovation in Business Models

Waste food in packaging

Fallen animals


Before: 42 x 400w (single fitting) After: 42 x 120w (single fitting)

Toyota Cascades Best Practice through NISP

• Toyota adopts energy efficient LED lighting across its facility

- 16% reduction in electricity last year

• Best practice disseminated at NISP event hosted by Toyota to:

- 40 UK companies including Tesco, Next, Royal Mail and many SMEs

- Other companies now installing LED lighting

Industrial Symbiosis Opportunities: Inward Investment

Paper Sludge & Ash

Paper Co 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

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


Industrial Symbiosis Opportunities: Regional Economic Development/Regeneration


• 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


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


Success Factors

Practitioners Industrial expertise Long term relationship building and facilitation Marrying data and expert knowledge Working with the regulator and technology providers to ‘enable’ IS activity

Engagement Model Extensive, diverse network (including innovation, regulator, RDAs) Business opportunity programme Track record of excellent performance Creating a demand pull on innovation

Data Quality NISP data direct from companies and regulatory data


Economic Drivers for Industrial Symbiosis in Europe

• Resources

– Volatility of resource pricing (McKinsey, Resource Revolution)

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

• Policy

– EU policy incorporating IS across Directorate Generals

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

• Rising awareness of sustainability issues (eg PlasticsEurope)

Drivers create imperative for practical approaches

• Foster Eco-innovation

• Create new markets

• Close local loops


• 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


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


EUR-ISA: European Industrial Symbiosis Association


International Synergies Limited - Our Vision

"Striving to lead the world in innovative

industrial ecology solutions for a low carbon,

sustainable economy"


Introducing International Synergies Limited - (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


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

European Union Switch Asia

China Pilot Project – Circular Economy Yunnan Province

Defra – Sustainable

Development Dialogues

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 Brazilian Industrial Symbiosis Programme

Minas Gerais

Parana

Rio Grande do Sul



Al-Invest

Italy Rome ENEA

Netherlands Limburg Province of Limburg

Slovakia Reducing Production Waste

by Industrial Symbiosis Bratislavsky kraj

ERDF

United Kingdom NISP England, Scotland, N. Ireland & Wales

Defra, Scottish Government, Invest

Northern Ireland, Welsh Government

Finland National Motiva/

SITRA

South Africa South Africa Industrial

Symbiosis Pilot Programme Gauteng Province



China Intro of IS to Jiangsu Province Jiangsu Province

UK SPF Fund

International Synergies’ Global Experience

International Synergies Limited & NISP: Recognition from all Sectors

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

2007

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) declared 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 has been 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

Worldwatch Institute Europe, Best Practice Business Sustainability and Innovation in Publication launched at European Parliament, June 2013

2013

International Synergies has been chosen to organise a Public Private Partnership on industrial symbiosis for the Global Green Growth Forum (3GF) Copenhagen in October

2013

http://www.edie.net/

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

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

2004: Industrial Symbiosis as a Novelty

“If companies can make use of waste, it will be a big benefit”

Dax Lovegrove

One company’s waste may turn out to be

suitable fuel for another, says Sarah Murray

2010: Financial Times Managing Climate Change

Assessing industrial symbiosis’ contribution to climate change mitigation

and energy security

2012: Nature Climate Change

2013: Financial Times Mainstream Business Education

Peter Laybourn Chief Executive

International Synergies Limited

t: +44 (0) 121 433 2660 dl: +44 (0) 121 433 2667

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

@peter_laybourn

@IntlSynergies @NISPnetwork

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