Network
for Business
Accelerating
Profitable
Sustainability
Innovation and
Sustainability
Photo courtesy of RhizomeImages.com
About NBIS
NBIS is the Northwest non-profit
dedicated to enabling
professionals and businesses
in driving profitable sustainability
The NBIS Mission
Deliver expertise, education, and
partnership opportunities to help
businesses and professionals advance
their organizations in
• Environmentally
Globally Competitive
• Socially
Companies
• Economically
sustainable ways
What we do…
NBIS creates
opportunities
for business leaders
to share knowledge
and achievements…
Learn best practices and
practical implementation
strategies…
Contribute to
local and global
sustainability!
NBIS at a Glance
Regional Engagement:
By-Product Synergy NW
Charter and Current Members:
Founded in 2007
Pioneering innovation,
economic development
and waste reduction
strategies for the region.
Canyon Creek Cabinet Company
Cascade Designs
Cascadia Consulting
Cedar Grove Composting/Emerald Services
Correctional Industries
E3 Energy Partners
Genie Industries/Terex
Intalco/Alcoa
Impact Washington
King County Solid Waste
Leader International
NewWood Manufacturing
Pending:
Nucor Steel
Rhizome Design
St. Gobain Containers
Seattle Public Utilities
Cosmo Specialty Fibers
Shell Puget Sound Refinery
ReKlaim
Washington State University
Jorgenson Forge
Project Leadership
Project Leadership:
BPS NW is a regional program of NBIS
managed in collaboration with:
Endorsements:
Puget Sound Regional
Council
King County
City of Seattle
Skagit County
enterpriseSeattle
 Washington State Department of Ecology
 Pollution Prevention Resource Center
(PPRC)
 US Business Council for Sustainable
Development
A Process for Success
By-Product Synergy is a creative process
that works through collaboration
between companies to
• Foster cross-industry communication
• Break down barriers between
government and industry
• Engage small and large companies
• Create business benefit while
reducing environmental impacts
The Project Delivers
• Savings – reduced waste disposal costs;
reductions in new materials purchased;
better price for waste materials
• Best Practices –energy and water
reduction strategies; solutions from
other companies
• Access to technical expertise –
materials and substitution advice;
testing and research expertise
• Opportunities to dialogue with
regulators
Working Groups & Impacts
• Heavy Industry Working Group – addressing common materials challenges.
• Refractory Brick Roundtable – exploring local reuse opportunities
• Sheet Plastic Roundtable: plastic waste to new product.
• Mattress Disassembly – Correctional Industries: job training, revenue, and
materials reclamation.
• Acetone Redistilling – Canyon Creek Cabinet Company: hazardous waste
reduction & savings.
• Steel Shot Blast – Nucor Steel, Genie Industries: feedstock supply;
diversion of waste from landfill.
• Rags Repurpose – Canyon Creek Cabinet, Exotic Metals : diversion of waste
from landfill, cost savings, extending the use-life of local resources.
• Battery recycle restriction -regulation lifted
Project Expansion
Materials Innovation Exchange
The Exchange is a unique regional and global
resource that responds to the growing need for a
centralized go-to location for sharing experience,
success stories, solutions, local resources and
technical expertise.
We offer solutions on both a local and a global scale local marketplace and resources; global knowledge
bank.
The site is participatory and backed by world class
expertise.
Anyone can access the site and contribute –typically
siloed information is available to anyone interested in
innovation and creative solutions.
Your Participation is invited!
• Market your materials and share your ideas
and successes!
Registration and use is free.
• www.materialsinnovationecxchange.com
• Gain visibility and support the site – become a
Launch Sponsor or purchase an ad!
• http://www.materialsinnovationexchange.com/joinsponsor/become-a-sponsor/
• Learn More!
www.nbis.org; maryr@nbis.org
Mary Rose
Karl Ostrom
Co-Founders and Executive Directors
www.nbis.org
314 1st Avenue S
Seattle, WA 98104
425-445-2600
maryr@nbis.org
karlo@nbis.org