The National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP)
The National Industrial Symbiosis Programme is a free business opportunity programme that brings together companies from all business sectors with the aim of improving cross industry resource efficiency.
Committed to connecting industry and creating opportunity, NISP uses the industrial symbiosis approach by asking companies to collaborate and share information, knowledge, expertise and resources to improve their commercial and environmental performance. In this way NISP identifies mutually profitable links between its member companies so that previously unused, under utilised or discarded resources from one are recovered, reprocessed or reused by others.
NISP deals with all types of resource - materials, energy, water and supports the sharing of assets, logistics and expertise. Through NISP, companies can achieve substantial cost savings, generate sales from new markets and contribute towards creating an environmentally sustainable economy.
Membership of NISP is free regardless of company size, turnover or sector.
NISP offers;
- identification of potential 'synergies' via free facilitated workshops
- provision of free expertise to facilitate 'synergies' and business opportunities
- free access to network of like minded businesses.
NISP members have enjoyed a range of environmental and financial benefits;
- cost savings
- new sales opportunities
- access to private investment
- new job creation
- supply chain efficiency improvements
- reductions in hazardous wastes
- reductions in greenhouse gas generation
- reductions in water use
- reductions in waste going to landfill.
To find out more about industrial symbiosis, NISP and to access case studies from across the UK please visit www.nisp.org.uk.