Everything from smartphones to housing can be built without waste. Here's how
To create a truly circular economy, we need to take a page from the natural world.
The rings of a tree tell a story. A story about the life of the tree, and the environment in which it grew. But what is humanity's story? Will it be a blackened layer of fossilized smartphones in the footnotes of geology? Or will it be a story like the Daintree rainforest in Australia - one of the oldest surviving forest ecosystems in the world whose current inhabitants boast a direct lineage thought to be over 100 million years old? To envision a 100-million-year-long story for humanity, we must imagine a world where every generation returns the materials they use to the soil, air, and oceans in a way that enables future generations to use that material too. A world without waste or pollution. The transition to such a system - called a circular economy - depends greatly on science.
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