This calls for mimicking nature, the most efficient system on earth, where everything's waste is something else's food. If this strikes you as so much green do-gooder drivel, consider what commerce really is. Processing water is treated for golfcourse irrigation. The list goes on. Everybody wants to do business with a green vendor, especially a low-cost green vendor.
Employees are nature, too.
Instead of a manicured and chemically enhanced lawn, the plant is landscaped with wild grasses and black-eyed susans. Joyce LaValle, who runs the plant, takes nearly 1,000 potential customers through the site each year. But Mr. Anderson is convinced that will change. Even now, the company is making more progress than any regulator would dare to require. Even if the doomsayers of environmentalism are overly pessimistic, we obviously can't consume the finite forever.