Enviro 05 Peter Laybourn

Improving Resource Efficiency
through Industrial Symbiosis:

A brief world tour
Green Expo, Mexico City
September 3th-5th 2019
Peter Laybourn
Chief Executive
© International Synergies Limited 2019
| Contents
• The climate crisis
• International Synergies Limited (ISL)
• Facilitated NISP® around the world
• A focus on Europe and UK
• Lessons for the future

| IPCC report (October 2018)
• Only a dozen years for global warming to

be kept to a maximum of 1.5°C.
• Urgent and15 May 2019:
unprecedented changes are
needed 29˚C near Arctic Circle
C02 over 415 ppm
First time in human history

Mitigation potential of resource efficiency
MATERIALS & PRODUCTS www.creds.ac.uk

| International Synergies’ vision
“To lead the world in

innovative industrial
ecology solutions for a
low carbon, sustainable
economy”

| ISL: Enabling resource efficiency through
industrial symbiosis

| Industrial symbiosis circa 15 years ago
N. America Europe
United States United Kingdom Asia
(BPS) (facilitated) South Korea (top
Mexico (Altamira- Denmark (organic) down facilitated)
Tampico industrial Netherlands (facilitated) © International Synergies Limited 2019
corridor)
| Industrial symbiosis today (NISP®, SYNERGie®)
Asia
N. America South Korea Taiwan
United States China Turkey
Canada Sri Lanka Israel
Mexico India
Europe
S. America Denmark
Brazil France
Peru Germany
Chile Africa
Finland Oceana
Ghana
Netherlands Australia
Burkina Faso
Poland
Mauritius
Slovakia
Kenya
Belgium
Uganda
Romania
South Africa
Hungary
Egypt
Italy, Spain
United Kingdom
| NISP® delivered outcomes
England April 2005 – March 2013
METRICS In Year Benefits* Lifetime Impact (Max 5 year)
Landfill diversion 9.4 million tonnes 47 million tonnes
CO2 reduction 8.4 million tonnes 42 million tonnes
Virgin material savings 12 million tonnes 60 million tonnes
Hazardous waste eliminated 0.4 million tonnes 2.1 million tonnes
Water savings 15 million tonnes 72 million tonnes
Cost savings €243 million €1.21 billion

Additional sales €234 million €1.17 billion
Jobs 10,000+
Private investment €374 million
€43.4 million investment - *All outputs independently verified
Rate of return for Govt. 9:1
Exchange rate £1 = €1.18
| NISP®, Cairo, Wednesday 12th Sept 2018

12 350+ EARLY OUTCOMES PHASE 1
WORKSHOPS PARTICIPANTS
$6.3M economic benefit ~ 18 months

24,000 t CO2e saved ~ 5.8 FTE people power
3,500 1,920
IDEAS RESOURCES
250,000 t waste diverted $1M from eight funders
NISP® Canada Contacts: Tracy Casavant ([email protected]) or Timo Makinen ([email protected])

North of Israel
NISP® Project
• Small-medium Industrial areas

“After the success in • Agricultural Industries
Britain (NISP), the • 2,100 Factories
• 75,000 employees
Ministry of Economy • 4,500 square kilometer
will try to save 200 • 1.4M residents
million new Israeli
shekels a year, using • Launch March 2019
• 75 sites
industrial waste • 550 resources
recycling” • 15 synergies in progress
• 1 synergy completed
What has WISP Achieved:
>650 >5000
Companies in the Under-utilised
Network Resources
Identified
Key Performance Indicator To Date

(03 June 2019)
Waste Diversion > 69,000 tonnes
Additional Revenue $ 2.5 million
Cost Savings $ 1.8 million
Private Investment $ 0.61 million

152,000 tonnes CO2e
Fossil GHG Savings
(~ 15 2.2MW wind turbines)
29 temporary
Job Creation 25 permanent
1526 economy-wide jobs
| Model for Turkey:Planning nationally (May
2019)
Govt. owner: Ministry of Industry and Technology (MoIT)
National Coordinating Body National Innovation Partner
Delivery teams
Region 1 Region 2 Region 3 Region 4 Region N
Database and management tool
Regional/Local Programme Advisory Groups (PAGs)

Resources as efficiency tools
Economic value Environmental value

| European Commission support for IS
• European Waste Framework Directive (2009)*
• Roadmap to Resource Efficient Europe – exemplar (2011)*
• DG Regions: Connecting Smart and Sustainable Growth through
Smart Specialisation – exemplar (2012)*
• DG Enterprise: Communique on Green Entrepreneurship (2013)
• European Resource Efficiency Platform – short-term
recommendation (2014)
• DG Innovation & Research: Short guide to assessing environmental
impacts of research and innovation policy (2014)*
• Circular Economy Package (2015)
• European Environment Agency, Circular economy in Europe (2016)*
• DG Energy Strategic Energy Technology Plan (2018)
• And finally in 2018 … *Citing NISP®
| Waste Framework Directive amendment 2018
"Waste management in the [EU] should be improved and
transformed into sustainable material management …
promoting the principles of the circular economy …
in a way that preserves resources and closes loops”
"… the Commission should be empowered to adopt

implementing acts in order to establish detailed criteria …
prioritising replicable practices of industrial
symbiosis.“
Official Journal of the EU L150 Vol 61

| Report for DG GROW (2018)
Cooperation Fostering Industrial Symbiosis
(TNO, Technopolis, Trinomics, ISL, UCL)
• €73 billion estimated for EU, cost reduction alone
• Public-sector supported facilitated industrial symbiosis
is best
• No evidence of fully operative commercial facilitation
(of industrial symbiosis) in Europe
• Success of industrial symbiosis initiatives is largely
dependent on the policy environment
| DG GROW … further observations*
“There is a significant exploitable industrial
symbiosis potential for Europe”
“Overall industrial symbiosis is expected to grow
significantly. Moving towards a low carbon resource
efficient industry and society implies that more
industrial symbiosis solutions will be required and
implemented”
“There is a lack of common standards or guidelines
on the measurement and reporting of symbiotic
exchanges, despite initiatives such as NISP®”
* Call for Tender: European Network of Businesses and SMEs for Industrial Symbiosis, 2019
| CWA Industrial Symbiosis (Pre-standard)
• Convened Brussels
Feb 2018
• 4 European project sponsors
• Participants: industry, practitioners, policy
makers, academia
• Chaired by Dr Rachel Lombardi,
International Synergies Limited
• Launched by Dr Janez Potočnik
• Published December 2018
| European VET call on industrial symbiosis
• EU Programme: ERASMUS+ “New Skills Agenda”
• Sector Skills Alliances for implementing a new
strategic approach (“Blueprint”) to sectoral
cooperation on skills
• Focus on cross-sectoral industrial symbiosis (IS)
and energy efficiency
• €4 million over 4 years

| UK recent developments
• Smart Waste Tracking (DEFRA, Environment
Agency):
System for Waste Enhancement Evaluation and
Tracking (SWEET) using SYNERGie®4.0
• National Materials Database (ONS, DEFRA, BEIS)
• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
Council (EPSRC):
UK Manufacturing Symbiosis Network
Plus(UKMSN+) © International Synergies Limited 2019
| Success factors addressing market failures
 Full-time practitioners with industrial experience
 Engagement model (all sizes, all sectors)
 Holistic – resources, energy, capacity, expertise,
logistics, water etc.
 Data and ICT (SYNERGie®4.0)
 Sustained investment
| Market failures
 Time poverty of SMEs
 Informational
 Lack of pricing for externalities
| Stumbling blocks
• Some funds not ideal for IS activity
• Short term investments/treating as a pilot
• Too much emphasis on feasibility studies
• Delivery teams with inadequate skills/training
• Over reliance on workshops and ICT tools (no magic
formula!)
• Lack of supportive policy framework
• Exclusive focus on SMEs (large companies important
too!)
• Emphasis on self-sustaining programmes
| The future
• Reactive/demand-led model – enormous
opportunities
• Pro-active/planning model – strategic applications
are growing
• Increasing use of AI, BIG Data
• Increasingly explicit in policy (EU, Israel, Turkey etc.)
• Sustainability … we choose what to sustain!

!Gracias!
Peter Laybourn, Chief Executive

peter.laybourn@international-
synergies.com
International Synergies Limited
+ 44 121 433 2660
www.international-synergies.com
@IntlSynergies

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Improving Resource Efficiency

through Industrial Symbiosis:

© International Synergies Limited 2019

• Only a dozen years for global warming to

© International Synergies Limited 2019

MATERIALS & PRODUCTS www.creds.ac.uk

“To lead the world in

© International Synergies Limited 2019

© International Synergies Limited 2019

Cost savings €243 million €1.21 billion

© International Synergies Limited 2019

$6.3M economic benefit ~ 18 months

NISP® Canada Contacts: Tracy Casavant ([email protected]) or Timo Makinen ([email protected])

• Small-medium Industrial areas

Key Performance Indicator To Date

Waste Diversion > 69,000 tonnes

Additional Revenue $ 2.5 million

Cost Savings $ 1.8 million

Private Investment $ 0.61 million

National Coordinating Body National Innovation Partner

Database and management tool

Regional/Local Programme Advisory Groups (PAGs)

© International Synergies Limited 2019

Economic value Environmental value

"… the Commission should be empowered to adopt

Official Journal of the EU L150 Vol 61

© International Synergies Limited 2019

© International Synergies Limited 2019

Peter Laybourn, Chief Executive

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