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Waste not want not

Nature Climate Change volume 2, pages 388–391 (2012)Cite this article

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Industrial symbiosis — the sharing of by-product resources among diverse industries — can reduce costs and improve the environment. But despite its benefits, it is no panacea.

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Figure 2: NISP is all about getting different companies in a region to engage with one another.
Figure 3: Carbon dioxide emission reductions per resource stream based on number of tonnes of carbon dioxide saved through NISP.

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  1. Verdantix Green Game-Changing Innovation (WWF-UK, 2010); available via http://go.nature.com/fxNszP.

  2. http://www.symbiosis.dk/en

  3. http://www.nisp.org.uk

  4. http://usbcsd.org/energy/

  5. COWI Economic Analysis of Resource Efficiency Policies (European Commission, 2011); available via http://go.nature.com/hi9VeX.

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