Re-Engineering Waste Streams

Home

Re-Engineering Waste Streams

Beyond Green Buildings

Deliverables & Business Case

Best Known
Methods

Resources

• Minimizing Waste Streams
• Applying Industrial Ecology

We believe the key to turning our consumer, waste driven culture is to eliminate and minimize waste. Everyone can do something everyday to minimize waste: from buying products in large, bulk containers; to redesigning industrial processes to eliminate waste.

There are great examples of past and current successes. Industrial Ecology (IE) uses a whole systems operational perspective in combining one operation's waste for another operation's raw material input. IE balances a business's need for profit with nature's need for sustainability.