Topolytics and CeeD collaboration

Waste awareness Initiative funded by Innovate UK.

Topolytics, UK, has teamed up with the Centre of Engineering Education and Development (CeeD), UK, to assist manufacturers' in their understanding of their waste and its associated carbon impact. The project is being funded by Innovate UK.

The aim of this smart manufacturing project is to bring Topolytics' WasteMap analytics platform to companies that see the potential to gain better visibility over their waste and by-product flows to promote cost and resource efficiencies, reduce carbon emission and drive this and other material back into their production systems.

Mike Groves, CEO, Topolytics, says, ‘We are delighted to join up with CeeD and Innovate UK on its ‘smart manufacturing' challenge. Many organisations globally are asking the question ‘what happens to my waste'.  They are doing this to identify greater operational efficiencies, a desire to recover and re-use material and greater legal scrutiny. However, more still needs to be done and we are seeing demand internationally for a systematic, data driven approach across many organisations and many countries to address the waste challenge at scale.’

Joe Pacitti, managing director, CeeD, comments, ‘The aim of this collaboration is to help organisations gain a much greater insight into what happens to their waste, where it goes, how far it travels, how they can generate efficiencies, reduce associated carbon emissions and enhance reporting. Topolytics, a CeeD member, is acknowledged as a leader in the £2bln global ‘wastetech' sector through its work with waste producers, the waste industry and governments. The company is aggregating and analysing data at scale, to make the world's waste more visible, to make the data more verifiable and unlock value for those organisations creating and processing this material.’