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Chairmen's Overview
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The agenda focuses on preventing pollution, improving the quality of life, and finding ways to ensure that the needs and aspirations of future generations are not compromised by economic growth decisions made today. The strategies for preventing pollution include improving efficiency and productivity through frugal use of energy and materials, substituting environmentally detrimental materials with ones that are less so, as well as recycling and reusing products at the end of their lives.
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In the second, complex spatial and temporal webs of human production and consumption activities of individual materials can be traced through several different industrial ecosystems. A more accurate picture of a product's ecosystem emerges by linking materials, energy, and actors involved in each industrial ecosystem.
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Intergenerational equity questions, the rising conflict between the changing environmental management structures and current legal structures, and the question of complex or conflicting environmental trade-offs are additional challenges to be faced in moving toward restructuring the industrial ecosystem (Allenby, Chapter 2~. INDUSTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS LINKED TO NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS The global industrial ecosystem, the result of human economic activities, IS a component ot the more complex, finite, global natural ecosystem.
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Environmental considerations could be integrated into the products and network needed for product stewardship. The linking of computers and communication technology also offers opportunities for management of materials within industrial ecosystems.
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This formidable task has included developing programs to encourage user participation, initiating and implementing cartridge collection programs, building recycling facilities, and developing appropriate recycling processes. The first trial program was initiated in May 1991.
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The overall goal of improving efficiencies of industrial systems and extending the assimilative capacity of natural ecosystems is both environmentally desirable and necessary to make current industrial ecosystems more environmentally sustainable. Technological innovation is a necessary but insufficient means to that end.
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