Londonderry Eco-Industrial Park, NH, USA

Londonderry is a sub-urbanising community of 27,000 people (Deutz et al. 2004), located in southern New Hampshire, just 40 miles north of Boston. A recycling company approached Stonyfield Farms Yoghurt to establish a plastic recycling operation on vacant land next to the dairy using its grey water to rinse plastics (Lowitt 1998; Lowitt 2003). Stonyfield, itself a leader in sustainable business practices (Greiner 2001), and the town decided to explore the opportunity to create an ecological industrial park on the 100 acres of town-owned land adjacent to Stonyfield. A vision statement was established in 1996, and subsequently a set of covenants and governance system set up. These require all tenants to develop an environmental management system, track their resource use, set environmental performance goals, perform third party ecological audits and report progress to the Community Stewardship Board (Lowitt 2003; Deutz et al. 2004). Right from the start, it was anticipated that tenants in the surrounding 1,000 acres of industrial development would on a voluntary basis also adopt the eco-industrial practices that were mandated in the 100 acres eco-industrial park. Businesses have established in the park now, including a power plant, a medical supply distribution firm, software firms and rental car operators, all extensive users of the nearby airport (Lowitt 2003).

Documented Synergies in Londonderry Eco-Industrial Park

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More information about regional synergies in Londonderry Eco-Industrial Park can be found on:

• Deutz, P. and Gibbs, D. (2004) "Eco-Industrial Development: industrial ecology or place promotion", Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 13, pp. 347-362
• Lowitt, P. (1998) "Sustainable Development with a Local Focus: Sustainable Londonderry", Revolutionary Ideas in Planning: Proceedings of the 1998 National Planning Conference, AICP Press
• Lowitt, P. (2003) "Eco-Industrial Strategies: Unleashing synergy between economic development and the environment", edited by E. Cohen-Rosenthal and J. Musnikow, Sheffield, UK, Greenleaf Publishing, pp. 300-306

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