1. The Opportunity for
Industrial Symbiosis in the
Tyseley
Environmental Enterprise District
Sharon Freedman
Assistant Director Regeneration
Birmingham City Council
2. Clustering Economic Activity
• Targeting the sectors that Birmingham has a competitive advantage in
and which can bring economic benefits
• Marrying these sectors with major development opportunities in the city
• Encouraging clusters and spin offs
• Supporting supply chain development
• Potential for industrial symbiosis
• Six Economic Zones for target sectors;
3. The Economic Zones
Spatial and Sector
• Advanced Manufacturing Hub
• City Centre Enterprise Zone
• Life Sciences Campus
• The Food Hub
• Longbridge ITEC Park
• Tyseley Environmental Enterprise
District
5. Opportunities for an Economic Zone
in Tyseley
• Currently location of a
number of large resource
recovery operations.
• Large scale development
opportunities, demand for
energy and generator of
energy
• Potential for Industrial
Symbiosis within the Tyseley
area.
• Business Growth
• Employment created
• Environmental benefits
6. Kalundborg Symbiosis
• Public and private enterprises buy and sell waste products from
industrial production in a closed cycle.
• Residual products traded can include steam, dust, gases, heat,
slurry or any other waste product that can be physically transported
from one enterprise to another.
• A residual product originating from one enterprise becomes the raw
material of another enterprise, benefiting both the economy and the
environment.
7. Tyseley Symbiosis
• Ambition to exploit opportunities for industrial
symbiosis in Tyseley to harness the area’s true
potential and become an exemplar for the low
carbon economy.
• International Synergies commissioned to
identify opportunities to: increase the productivity
of existing resources, reduce carbon emissions in
the area, and spark new investment and green
business growth through industrial symbiosis.
• Based on existing resource flows, infrastructure
and economic activity, the analysis identifies
strategies to improve resource efficiency, and
opportunities for strategic economic development
that incorporates identified development sites.
9. Example; Wood Recycling
• Resource: Wood and other biomass for bioenergy. Clean wood
waste has well established market for pallets, animal bedding,
horticultural mulches and panel board (chipboard, fibreboard etc.)
as well as for fuel in biomass burners.
• Today: A number of businesses produce small quantities of wood
whilst not viable to segregate and recycle individually, it may be
viable to establish a wood collection "milk round" to increase the
amount of wood recovered.
• Tomorrow: Set up a wood waste hub on one of the development
sites in the area where the wood could be utilized to power a
biomass CHP unit and the heat/electricity used on site.
• Future innovation: Potential to develop some innovation around
treated wood. The CleanWood project established a demonstration
plant in Lissarda, Ireland to recover clean wood chips from
contaminated wood feedstocks primarily from construction and
demolition activities.
10. Facilitating Synergies
Creating awareness as a first step in order to create willingness –
Need to intensify collaboration between companies so that
they can share knowledge, ideas and also get to know each other
Common communication platform – a place where various
information where possible synergies can be found
Access to information – workshops are often a good start to create
awareness and build trust. This may also help with improved
forecasts of customer demand
Important that LA acts as an adviser without trying to take control
Companies must not feel as if they are forced to make synergies
Technical progress – in order to ensure that IS takes place and
develops in the future, companies should constantly invest in R&D .
