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Definition
By Product Synergy:
By‐Product Synergy: the matching of residual resources
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(including by‐products, excess transportation and storage
capacity, energy, etc) and waste streams from one facility with
potential users at another facility to create new revenues or
potential users at another facility to create new revenues or
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savings, environmental and societal benefits.
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Typical Manufacturing Process
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Product A
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Raw Material
Waste
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Disposal
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Raw Material Product B
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Manufacturing with a BPS Process
Network
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Product A
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Raw Material
By‐Product
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Proces
Disposal
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Company B
Raw Material Product B
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How does it work?
• Simple Concept ‐ we start with 20 to 30 organizations and
have them exchange materials and process information and
identify opportunities for synergies
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• Evaluate likelihood for success
• Identify and overcome barriers
Identify and overcome barriers
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• Implement synergies
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USBCSD and BPS
• Employ a facilitated‐, relationship‐based process
• Relationships require open communications and open
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communications require confidentiality agreements
• USBCSD provides/requires legal participation agreements
(with confidentiality clauses)
(with confidentiality clauses)
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• We provide tools to help participating organizations:
– Inventory materials and processes
– Identify and evaluate potential synergies
– Quantify and report economic, societal and environmental value
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Success Story
Organizations Involved
• Engineered Glass Products
• Gilasi/Innerglow Surfaces
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Materials
• Gl
Glass cullet
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Achievements
• 900 tons of glass cullet diverted from landfill annually
• Drives green building materials development and competitiveness
• Potential for jobs to be created as business grows
Potential for jobs to be created as business grows
• Closed loop life cycle for previously non‐recyclable glass
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Success Story
Organizations Involved
• Curb Appeal Materials
• Baxter Healthcare
Baxter Healthcare
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• Sherwin Williams
• Cook Composites and Polymers
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Materials
• Unrecyclable plastic (mixed)
Achievements
• 15 tons of plastic diverted from landfill
15 tons of plastic diverted from landfill
• New standards established for City Department procurement
• Potential for jobs to be created as business grows
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Closed loop life cycle for previously non‐recyclable plastics
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Success Story
Organizations Involved
• Abbott Laboratories
• ArcelorMittal Steel
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Materials
• S di
Sodium hypochlorite (industrial bleach)
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Achievements
• 20,000 tons of industrial bleach was diverted from the public sewer system
and to create clean process water for ArcelorMittal Steel
• Taxpayer savings from reduced water treatment
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• Transformed a hazardous waste into a beneficial reuse product
• CO2 savings from local sourcing of raw materials
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Economic Benefit
• Chicago BPS projects realized over $5.5 million per year in
economic impact
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• Kansas City BPS diverted 33,650 tons of solid waste per year
from local landfills
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• UK BPS program realized $1 billion+ cost savings in 5 years
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Building a National Network
• Goal is 20 projects by 2015
– Currently 6 legacy projects
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• Project to be linked by cirrusTM
– USBCSD’
USBCSD’s web‐enabled materials database
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– Enables members to “see” outside of their project
– Allows USBCSD to report aggregate data
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Building a National Network
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cirrusTM
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cirrusTM – Synergy Map
