![]() Resources are drawn from the earth, but cannot be returned to it after they have gone through industrial processes. ![]() This is a matter of over-design: why should a plastic shampoo bottle last for a thousand years after the product has been used? This is inefficient and a waste of resources as well as a waste and pollution problem.Īnother problem is the loss of nutrients. It’s not until the advent of man-made synthetic materials that the cycle was broken. In nature, they argue, there is no such thing as waste. The authors outline the problem and then explore what this would mean in practice. We’d be better off designing things to be re-used. In an age of pollution, climate change and resource depletion, that doesn’t make much sense. For too long, products have been designed to be thrown away, a ‘cradle to grave’ approach. Cradle to Cradle: Re-making the way we make things is something of a classic already, an influential call for an industrial design revolution. ![]()
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