For example, an aluminum can has different alloys of aluminum in the can’s tops, bottom and inside. Their thesis is that the design process builds in waste and the environmentally hip ways of getting rid of it, namely what we call recycling and what they call ‘downcycling’, are often outrageously expensive and so environmentally deleterious that it would be better to put the stuff in a landfill in the first place. McDonough and Braungart have written a book intending to get the two together. Despite their common interests, students in the two departments rarely meet sober and the faculties never meet cordially. “Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.Īt the university I attend, the Department of Packaging Science trains students in the production of trash while its department of waste disposal disguises itself with the grand title, Department of Environmental Systems Engineering.
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