A new waste project delivered by ARENA Network in partnership
with the
Wales Environment Trust.
Do YOU have waste that is no longer of use to you?
Would YOU like to reduce your disposal costs?
“Your waste could be someone’s valuable raw material!”
How we can help:
- Create networking opportunities
- Improve resource efficiency
-
Facilitate the development of new products and markets
The potential benefits:
- Generating savings for your company
- Diverting waste materials from
landfill
- Making your by-products someone’s valued raw material
-
Creating and safeguarding jobs
In 2006 ARENA Network launched the Materials Action Programme in Wales a new
waste programme designed to create new opportunities in Wales by diverting waste
from landfill. The initiative, which is being delivered in partnership with the
Wales Environment Trust, was launched at the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff by the
Environment Minister Carwyn Jones.
NISP encourages companies and the public sector to look outside their own physical
and business sector boundaries for opportunities to exchange wastes or materials
and thereby reduce costs. The programme is free for all organisations,
regardless of size, turnover or location within Wales and, although it is mainly
concerned with diverting waste from landfill, it is extended to include energy,
water, increasing production capacity, sourcing land, assets, logistics, and
providing specialist expertise.
Increasing legislation, such as the European Landfill Directive, End of Life
Vehicle Directive, the WEE Directive, IPC and IPPC, is putting an increasing
onus on industry to protect the environment. Furthermore, the costs of waste
disposal, particularly to landfill, are increasing requiring businesses to find
alternative solutions for their long and short term waste streams.
The NISP
programme will facilitate greater interaction and co-operation within
different sectors of the business community. The willingness and co-operation of
the participants from a broad and diverse range of industries can create the
environmental and social benefits that arise from resource efficiencies,
environmental improvements and waste reduction.
NISP is about connecting industries and creating opportunities.
If you would like further information about this project, or would like to
arrange a site visit to discuss your waste streams on site, please contact the
NISP
Wales Programme Manager, Kathryn Warren on 01656 868886 / 07899 971881 or email
kathryn.warren@arenanetwork.org.
Alternatively you can contact
your local ARENA Network Representative.