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The goal is to avoid environmental problems locally, regionally, and globally by improving the environmental efficiency of interacting production and consumption activities. Specific objectives include achieving superior efficiency and productivity through frugual use of raw materials and energy, substituting more abundant and environmentally preferable materials for those that are less so, developing new uses for waste, and reusing materials and subassemblies when products become obsolete.
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The reorientation of environmental rules and business practices raises several questions of market responses, energy use, material choices, product and process design, interfirm relations, material and waste management, information needs, and public policy choices. Industrial ecology has been a recurring theme in the NAE's efforts to address the relationships among industrial production, consumption, and the environment.
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