Building on the Mini Waste Faraday Partnership, the Resource Efficiency Knowledge Transfer Network (RE KTN) was officially launched on the 1st of March 2006. This DTI-supported initiative complements Envirowise's activities on promoting resource efficiency measures to business.

The RE KTN utilises knowledge transfer mechanisms to help UK industry and commerce to use their material resources more efficiently to ensure that new ideas are implemented and exploited to the commercial advantage of UK industries and commerce.

The RE KTN aims to help UK companies reduce their waste by giving them access to on-line information that:

• Shows how to make better use of materials
• Using industrial waste as a source of new products
• Processing recovered material into value-added resource.

Reasons to Engage

Membership of the RE KTN is free and members will receive many benefits, including use of:

• Powerful Networks
  The KTN is at the heart of waste and resource-related knowledge, ingenuity and influence in the UK. Members can identify and engage with the right people, ideas, and applications to address real-world needs.
• Technology Support
  Matching ideas and needs with technology solutions isn't easy. The KTN's knowledge and technology managers are members' eyes and ears in the hunt for answers and questions.
• Business Support
  Members can benefit form the support of a network of experienced business professionals when developing business plans, technology roadmaps, new products and ventures.
• Policy Shaping
  Members can voice the concerns and ambitions to influence policy through the KTN's credibility and contacts at national and regional levels.
• Web Portal
  The KTN's web portal provides network members with cutting-edge collaborative tools and facilities, and rapid access to follow-up support services.

Further Information.

Further information on the RE KTN can be found at the RE KTN website.