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towns of Grimsby and Hull. Grimsby, known as Europe’s Food Town, is home to a
high concentration of food producers, supported by cold storage, logistics, engineering and packaging services. The town is synonymous with seafood, including
brands such as Findus and Young’s, and represents 70 % of the entire UK seafood
processing capacity. Steel processing at Scunthorpe has its origins in the iron deposits of the Jurassic limestone escarpment that is found at either side of the estuary.
Seventeen per cent of UK’s power-generating stations including Drax,
Eggborough, Ferrybridge, Cottam, Radcliffe, Humber Power and Centrica lie inland
from the Humber region. With only 8 % of UK’s electricity demand, the Yorkshire
and Humber region is a net exporter of power to the rest of the country. The heavy
industrial base of the wider Yorkshire and Humber economy is the source of 23 %
of the CO 2 emissions of England and Wales (89 Mte) (Environment Agency) and
over six million tonnes of commercial and industrial waste arisings (Defra 2011 ,
2014 ) (Fig. 19.2 ).
Fig. 19.2 Strategic location of the Humber within the North Sea basin
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towns of Grimsby and Hull. Grimsby, known as Europe’s Food Town, is home to a
high concentration of food producers, supported by cold storage, logistics, engineering and packaging services. The town is synonymous with seafood, including
brands such as Findus and Young’s, and represents 70 % of the entire UK seafood
processing capacity. Steel processing at Scunthorpe has its origins in the iron deposits of the Jurassic limestone escarpment that is found at either side of the estuary.
Seventeen per cent of UK’s power-generating stations including Drax,
Eggborough, Ferrybridge, Cottam, Radcliffe, Humber Power and Centrica lie inland
from the Humber region. With only 8 % of UK’s electricity demand, the Yorkshire
and Humber region is a net exporter of power to the rest of the country. The heavy
industrial base of the wider Yorkshire and Humber economy is the source of 23 %
of the CO 2 emissions of England and Wales (89 Mte) (Environment Agency) and
over six million tonnes of commercial and industrial waste arisings (Defra 2011 ,
2014 ) (Fig. 19.2 ).
Fig. 19.2 Strategic location of the Humber within the North Sea basin
19 Quantifying the Potential of Industrial Symbiosis: The LOCIMAP Project…