Document that at least one business/building uses waste heat or water discharge from another business or conducts materials exchange activities with another organization.
Best Practice of this action
Rating Guideline
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1 or more organizations registered as users of the MN Materials Exchange; energy/water reuse includes: reuse of non-contact industrial cooling water; reuse of hot water from a laundromat by a nearby greenhouse; use of waste heat from a crematory to heat a nearby recreation center and its pool; using waste heat from a data center. Record projects under best practice action 20.6 where a city wastewater plant sells reclaimed water for non-potable ag-processing, irrigation, cooling or power plant uses, or when the plant co-generates electricity and heat and sells it to businesses. |
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Describe how the city facilitated at least one such energy/water/materials reuse project. |
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Report how the city is, on an ongoing basis, helping businesses complete these reuse projects and how many completed projects exist. |
Resources
- The Minnesota Materials Exchange is a free service that links organizations that have reusable goods they no longer need to those who can use them, at no or low cost. This business reuse network helps prevent usable materials from becoming waste and saves users money.
- Michael Foods Northern Star Potato plant in Chaska demonstrated a Ultramizer® on a 1,000 HP boiler that recovers heat and achieved a fuel-to-steam efficiency increase from as much as 75%
- Eco-Industrial Development: Concepts and Applications (MPCA: 2012) includes several slides summarizing resource cascading, by-product synergies, by-product exchanges, and eco-industrial networking.
- MnTAP can assist business and governmental processes to reduce wastes and increase efficiencies.
- See also GreenStep business assistance resources under action 25.2.
Order Number
2
Action Type
Finite