{"id":9578,"date":"2014-03-20T11:39:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T19:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/?p=9578"},"modified":"2016-09-26T11:56:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T19:56:31","slug":"recycling-is-a-joke-without-a-bigger-plan-in-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/2014\/03\/20\/recycling-is-a-joke-without-a-bigger-plan-in-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling is a Joke without a Bigger Plan in Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recycling – how effective is it really?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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There so many efforts, articles, and statistics that address both sides of the recycling equation, such as this article on recycling and the water bottle industry<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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To my point however, the nonlinear increase in production of things like plastic bottles, far excedes the ability to recycle them, due to lack of creating economic constraints to buy the recycled stuff back.<\/div>\n
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Additionally, most recycled plastics do not get returned to the front end of the industries for its re-use, such as water bottles as they describe in the article.<\/div>\n
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My mission is to get people and cities and nations thinking beyond end-of-use recycling to FULL CYCLE, or cradle to cradle, integrated design solutions relating to the making and use of a product. This is the ONLY way we are going to get ourselves out of the mess we’ve made.<\/div>\n
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This effort means designing ‘whole-system’ solutions that include efforts which enforce companies who make a product to bring it back into their product-making processes. Be it a bottle or a cell phone, etc, all products are to be returned to the factory where they were made for incorporation back into new product production streams.<\/div>\n
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\"closedloopmetabolicsystem\"<\/a><\/div>\n
Until then, I stand that recycling can never catch up to production, and is a false promise in our attempt to ‘save the environment’, let alone ourselves. Especially within a world where the population growth, and thereby ever increasing product demand, have gone non-linear.<\/div>\n
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* See my metabolic closed-loop system diagram<\/a> to stimulate your ideas on how to create a (w)holistic recycling system. This is the model that needs to become the standard for sustainable corporate product design and development.<\/div>\n
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*\u00a0More from my blog<\/a> on this subject.<\/div>\n

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