Recycle Everything: Why We Must, How We Can
Book Details
Author(s)Janet Unruh
ISBN / ASIN1450599052
ISBN-139781450599054
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Sales Rank2,635,325
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Can everything be recycled? Yes, but it's going to take imagination and innovation. Right now, we are taking what we want from the planet, using it, and throwing it away. It's a one-way street from resource to landfill. But if we think there can't be any other way, we are lacking imagination. Once a thing can be imagined, it can be engineered.  Â
The one-way street is not sustainable long-term. For this reason, we need to go beyond current methods that merely slow down the rate of consumption and reduce the amount of materials flowing through the system. We need a new system, a cyclical system because by its very nature, sustainability is cyclical. This book describes such a system. Â
The system for material sustainability is a concept whereby materials move through production, consumption, and recovery in a never-ending cycle. The materials in the system are 100% recyclable. This system has no dependence on extraction of raw materials nor does it allow used materials to be discarded. Impossible? This book will show you how it can be done. It elaborates on the system, explains how it works and describes the areas of innovation that are needed to make it a reality.Â
Written by an instructional design professional with a master's degree in Engineering and Technology Management and 10 years of experience working with manufacturing professionals from design to the factory floor.  View a short presentation on the ideas in this book here (copy and paste this URL in your browser): slideshare.net/i4ms/introduction-to-systems-for-material-sustainability-how-to-recycle-everything
The one-way street is not sustainable long-term. For this reason, we need to go beyond current methods that merely slow down the rate of consumption and reduce the amount of materials flowing through the system. We need a new system, a cyclical system because by its very nature, sustainability is cyclical. This book describes such a system. Â
The system for material sustainability is a concept whereby materials move through production, consumption, and recovery in a never-ending cycle. The materials in the system are 100% recyclable. This system has no dependence on extraction of raw materials nor does it allow used materials to be discarded. Impossible? This book will show you how it can be done. It elaborates on the system, explains how it works and describes the areas of innovation that are needed to make it a reality.Â
Written by an instructional design professional with a master's degree in Engineering and Technology Management and 10 years of experience working with manufacturing professionals from design to the factory floor.  View a short presentation on the ideas in this book here (copy and paste this URL in your browser): slideshare.net/i4ms/introduction-to-systems-for-material-sustainability-how-to-recycle-everything
