Talk:Industrial ecology: Difference between revisions

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This is one of the main four ideas of w:Natural Capitalism (see natcap.org, the other three are:

extreme energy conservation
extreme materials conservation
redefining all products as services

When these four are done, there is no such thing as "waste" because all waste is a "resource" to something else, and there is no such thing as "products" or even "commodities" since they are defined as harvesting, processing, distributing, collecting and disposal services that happen to provide services to users in between. This is the most powerful idea, since product lifecycle must be considered by the maker not the user.

Is there a w:industrial ecology article in wikipedia? There should also be w:product stewardship and w:service ecology which are the more advanced ideas of assessment.

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 *redefining all products as services
-When these four are done, there is no such thing as "waste" because all waste is a "resource" to something else, and there is no such thing as "products" or even "commodities" since they are defined as harvesting, processing, distributing, collecting and disposal services that happen to provide services to users in between.  This is the most powerful idea.
+When these four are done, there is no such thing as "waste" because all waste is a "resource" to something else, and there is no such thing as "products" or even "commodities" since they are defined as harvesting, processing, distributing, collecting and disposal services that happen to provide services to users in between.  This is the most powerful idea, since [[product lifecycle]] must be considered by the maker not the user.
-Is there a [[w:industrial ecology]] article in wikipedia?
+Is there a [[w:industrial ecology]] article in wikipedia?  There should also be [[w:product stewardship]] and [[w:service ecology]] which are the more advanced ideas of assessment.