Pollution
Material which impairs the living system into which it is discarded. The disruption of material flows may be due to the materials being alien to the ecology into which they are discharged, and/or in excess of what the ecology can cope with. Pollution is what happens when there is failure of the principle of the closed-loop system, whose parts exchange and use their respective wastes. The aim—and ultimately, the requirement—of the resilient political economy of the future will be to sustain closed-loop systems which waste none of the foundation capital on which they depend.P46
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Sustainability, Lean Materials, Genetic Modification, Nanotechnology.
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