Using nature as mentor, model, and measure often yields superior design solutions that profitably eliminate waste, loss, and harm.
Natural systems operate in closed loops.
There's no waste every output is either returned harmlessly to the ecosystem as a nutrient, like compost, or becomes an input for another process. Reducing the wasteful throughput of materials indeed, eliminating the very idea of waste can be accomplished by redesigning industrial systems on biological lines that change the nature of industrial processes and materials, enabling the constant reuse of materials in continuous closed cycles, and often the elimination of toxicity. This is the second principle of natural capitalism . Much of our work is based on this and other biologically based insights. For inquiries about RMI see General Information Inquiries .