Eco-Industrial Revolution and The Selling of Services

By: Layton Taylor and Amy Shvayko

What is Eco-Industrial Revolution?

The goal is to make the industrial manufacturing process more sustainable by redesigning them to mimic how nature deals with waste

Reusing waste for other manufacturing processes

How can we mimic nature? By recycling and reusing chemicals used

in industries instead of dumping them into the environment

What happens in a resource exchange web?

The waste of one manufacture is sold or traded as the raw materials for another

How does biomimicry help? Eliminates most waste and pollution Provides many economic benefits for

businesses

How can businesses decrease their pollution and waste? Decrease their pollution and waste by

shifting from selling goods to selling services the good provide

Recycling or selling chemical outputs Making non-polluting products

What is a service flow economy? Instead of buying most goods,

customers would use ecoleasing to rent the services that such goods provide

Summary The eco-industrial revolution makes

manufacturing more sustainable by mimicing how nature deals with waste

A resource exchange web shows how waste can be exchanged to decrease pollution and save money.