NISP Canada
Semiconductors - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
NISP Canada Employees
NISP Canada Details
The Canadian National Industrial Symbiosis Program (NISP) aims to develop business-to-business networks that will enable resource collaboration, thereby creating economic, environmental and social benefits to businesses and surrounding communities. The principle behind industrial symbiosis is quite simple; instead of being thrown away or destroyed, resources surplus to a given business or organization (e.g., waste generated by an industrial process) are captured, and then redirected for use as input(s) into a separate process by one or more other entities, providing a mutual benefit or symbiosis. These mutually profitable links are not restricted to materials; they include resources such as energy, wastewater, transportation, asset utilisation, and even expertise, such as R&D.NISP programs have been successfully implemented in 30 jurisdictions around the globe, in such countries as Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, the UK, the Netherlands, Finland, and China. The combined benefit of all these NISP endeavours includes millions of tonnes of avoided landfill; thousands of jobs created or preserved; reduced emission of greenhouse gases and air pollutants; reduced water consumption; etc. These same sorts of benefits are expected to be realized in Canada, provided concerted, longer term support for NISP can be obtained.
