Sustainex Presentation

1. Cookstown Resource Efficiency
Programme
Dr John Harrison
InnoTech Centre
South West College
This project is part funded by Cookstown District Council, Invest Northern Ireland
and the European Regional Development Fund under the Sustainable
Competitiveness Programme for Northern Ireland.

2. Sources of Funding
• This project is part funded by Cookstown
District Council, Invest Northern Ireland and
the European Regional Development Fund
under the Sustainable Competitiveness
Programme for Northern Ireland.

3. Aims
Cookstown’s pilot Resource Efficiency Programme aims to:
• Support 40 SMEs whose energy, waste, water/effluent
and raw materials costs are less than £30k p.a.
• Assist businesses in identifying and implementing
resource efficiencies in their businesses.
• Introduce companies to the need and benefits of
becoming more resource efficient, offering flexible,
client-led, practical support to help companies realise
cost savings and competitive advantage through
improvements in resource efficiency.

4. Delivery Partners
• South West College – InnoTech
Centre
• Action Renewables
• B9 Solutions

5. Programme Overview
• 40 Micro/small businesses to receive resource
efficiency Support
• Focus on enhancing competitive advantage through
resource efficiency and showing businesses to utilise
their resources to increase profitability
• Resource Efficiency Audit
• Resource Efficiency Action Plan
• Five Days Specialist Technical Consultancy Support
• Resource Efficiency Seminar

6.
Business Audit and Action Plan
• Cost of waste disposal
• Current bin/ waste collection / segregation system used
• Current recycling processes used and savings achieved
• Total amount of energy, waste, water / effluent and raw
material usage
• Amount and breakdown of type of waste sent to landfill
• Types of resource efficiency tools used and how they are
applied by the business

7. Consultancy Support Available
One-to-one Technical Consultancy Support to include:
• Identification of cleaner processing technologies;
• Opportunities for using renewable energy or
improving efficiency
• Accessing more sustainable water sources
• Minimising product losses
• Reviewing packaging requirements or use
• Environmental or energy management systems
• Equipment specification & identification of suppliers
of more efficient equipment

8. Programme Targets
• Bespoke consultancy support provided to 40
Businesses
• Create a minimum of 5 new jobs
• Sustain a minimum of 120 existing jobs
• Increase overall average resource efficiency of
businesses by up to 5%
• Reduce the levels of Commercial waste being
sent to landfill by local businesses by up to 10%
• Reduce the cost of waste disposal by businesses
by 15%

9. Programme Targets
• Reduce the Carbon Emissions of participating
businesses by providing a cleaner/greener way of
managing waste to lead to a reduction of up to 5%
on business carbon emissions
• Minimum of 5 businesses to develop new
products or adapt existing products
• Assist up to 40 businesses to identify appropriate
bin/waste collection/segregation systems to
manage various types of waste being produced.
• Minimum of 10 companies will be signposted to
other support providers

10. To be eligible for Assistance
Businesses must be:
• Located in the Cookstown District
• Trading for a minimum of six months
• Not in receipt of similar assistance elsewhere
• Have resource costs not totalling more than £30,000 p.a.

11. Contact Details
Dr John Harrison Fiona McKeown
InnoTech Centre Economic Development Manager
South West College Cookstown District Council
Burn Road Burn Road
Cookstown Cookstown
BT80 8DN BT80 8DT
Tel: 028 822 55 223 Tel: 028 867 62205

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