Essentially, industrial ecology heralds a call for the design of closed-loop systems for production, consumption and disposal.

Industrial ecology helps design those types of systems from the perspective of engineering, while at the same time, pays attention to trying to make those types of systems more cost competitive.

Industrial ecology, a rapidly growing field focused on sustainable production and consumption, has contributed numerous important tools to modern environmental management — life cycle assessment ...

Industrial ecology suggests that businesses should operate more like ecosystems: cycling energy and matter through the system, with limited waste outputs. By preventing contamination and reusing ...

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The co-operative's initial focus will be on a 30-acre ecology zone located next to Wrexham 1M, FIREM's forthcoming one million sq ft industrial and logistics development.

The developer of the 100-acre Londonderry (N.H.) Eco-Industrial Park says it is the first such privately funded park in the United States. Similar developments have state funding, but Justin Bielagus, ...