Environment

The National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP) is a FREE business opportunity programme that delivers bottom line, environmental and social benefits to its members. With an extensive network of contacts and years of experience in industry, the North-East Team is linking firms across the region, providing practical solutions to difficult waste problems with great success. Based at Teesside University, the North-East Team offers free help, advice and support to companies large and small. Aimed at reducing the volume of waste which ends up at landfill sites, the project is bringing major benefits to both business and the environment. Since April 2004 over 800 organisations have benefited from NISP North-East activities. Over £6 million in new sales has been generated for our members, while helping divert over half a million tonnes of industrial waste from landfill sites. The Team can put you in touch with businesses that need your by-products or waste – perhaps businesses that you might never have thought of.

SMEs sometimes see their waste streams as in-sufficient and often feel that they don’t have the capacity to take action. This is where NISP ERDF funding can assist, through the North East Industrial Symbiosis Network, a two-year sustainability scheme to help small and medium-sized firms use environmentally friendly ways to deal with waste. NISP NE has extensive experience in working with SMEs and understands the difficult business environment in which they operate. The Programme is part of Solutions for Business, the Government’s package of publicly funded business support designed to help companies start and grow, and is being part financed by the European Union’s ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007-13, securing £621,000 ERDF investment through development agency One North East to match the university’s contribution.
 

To discover what NISP can do for your company, call 01642 342409 or email northeast@nisp.org.uk

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