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• Establishing an EIP takes time and happens in stages. Starting in
1964 Naroda began by increasing the awareness of business leaders by
presenting them with past experiences of the industries that joined
the industrial complex. Today, there are 900 plants in the Naroda
industrial estate.
• The Naroda Industries Association (NIA) played a major role in estab-
lishing the EIP. It acted as a steering organization and managed the
project. It keeps on looking for opportunities for partnerships, and
creates opportunities for its members to exchange information and
learn about various environmental approaches. The involvement of
NIA is helping to sustain progress in the Naroda industrial estate.
• The firms in the estate were willing to establish the eco-industrial
network as a result of environmental and economic pressures. They
wanted to enlarge the scope of their activities beyond just comply-
ing with the regulations. They wanted to recover their resources to
increase their profitability. This mature vision evolved from an aware-
ness of the meaning of EIP.

Burnside Eco-Industrial Park, Canada
The Burnside park is located in Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia,
Canada, in an area of 1,200 hectares of which three-quarters is currently devel-
oped, and it is operated by a municipality. The main aim is to protect water,
air, and land because this was the demand of the Canadian Government. There
are approximately 1,300 companies and 17,000 employees in those busi-
nesses. The park is one of the five largest in Canada (UNEP 2001). It has a solid
waste management system which is considered the most highly sophisti-
cated in Canada.
The success behind this eco-industrial park lies in the fact that munic-
ipalities in Canada such as Halifax Regional Municipality have “implemented
a solid waste management system, which is widely viewed as the most
sophisticated in Canada” (UNEP 2001). This system includes diversion of
glass, some plastics, paper, and cardboard and aluminum, organic wastes,
and construction and demolition debris from the landfill. The municipality
has adopted a sewer use by-law which will limit discharges of certain mate-
rials into the sewers and a pesticide use by-law which will, within four
years, ban the use of pesticides for aesthetic purposes within the city (UNEP
2001).
Burnside is designated primarily for light manufacturing, distribution,
and commercial activities as shown in Table 3.4. One section of the park is
designated as a business park and attracts computer, health, and technology
companies. Although not specifically designated as such, another section
has attracted many large trucking companies and their maintenance facili-
ties. There is no “worker housing” at this time but there are two hotels in