Edinburgh tech firm embarks on project to help businesses profit from waste

By Scott Reid
Published 4th May 2021, 07:00 BST
Updated 4th May 2021, 07:26 BST
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An Edinburgh-based data analytics specialist has embarked on a joint venture project to help businesses profit from waste.

Topolytics has teamed up with the Centre of Engineering Education and Development (CeeD) to enable manufacturers to get a better understanding of their waste and its associated carbon impact. The project is being funded by Innovate UK, the innovation agency.

Currently some 60 per cent of the waste from cities globally is going to landfill, a waste dump or leaking into the environment.

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It is hoped that the Edinburgh firm’s WasteMap analytics platform will provide companies with greater scrutiny over their waste and by-products, leading to cost and resource efficiencies and reductions in carbon emissions.