Industrial Symbiosis

Industrial Symbiosis

Amount awarded: £199,504

Led by: United Utilities

Partners: International Synergies Ltd, Dŵr Cymru (Welsh Water), Jacobs, and Severn Trent Water plc.

Industrial Symbiosis will look at new ways waste or by-product materials from one company can be used as the raw materials for another.

United Utilities is leading a partnership with Dŵr Cymru (Welsh Water), Jacobs, Severn Trent Water and International Synergies Ltd to build new relationships across sectors and in new supply chains. By developing an engagement methodology, the project will build a collaborative network of organisations outside the sector, identifying opportunities for the supply and demand of reused and repurposed materials to create and test a new market.

Effectively implementing industrial symbiosis as a ‘business-as-usual’ process for the water sector will deliver long-term sustainable development benefits for the economy, environment, and society by:

• creating jobs in regional economies and reducing costs of all sectors that are engaged through industrial symbiosis;
• using fewer virgin materials, which in turn will help reduce emissions and ultimately pollution;
• lowering the environmental impact of the industry and developing a new, inclusive relationship with the water sector.

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Resources:

For more information on Industrial Symbiosis, take a look at the following resources:

• Read the case study from July 2023
• This project was featured in the Circularity in Water Learning Report
• The foreground IPR developed by this project is as below. Access information about the project’s foreground IPR from the Spring Knowledge Transfer Library from April 2024.

• • SYNERGie®4Water platform