The de facto slogan of modern industrial man is "Heat, beat and treat" or "take, make and throw". But Mother Nature do everything in the other way, following the sustainability principles. We can borrow the ideas, be inspired and emulated by her, can collect the pearls of wisdom and reflect them in our life - in all spheres, personal, social, industrial.
Please elucidate the master principles of Nature and her "trade secrets" and discuss how we can adopt and adapt them in our sustainability journey.
You can look at research that carries the title "cradle to cradle" also called C2C.
As a summary "Cradle to cradle can be defined as the design and production of products of all types in such a way that at the end of their life, they can be truly recycled (upcycled), imitating nature’s cycle with everything either recycled or returned to the earth, directly or indirectly through food, as a completely safe, nontoxic, and biodegradable nutrient. With cradle to cradle, all the components of a product feed another product, the earth or animal, or become fuel: products are composed of either materials that biodegrade and become food for biological cycles or of technical materials that stay in closed-loop technical cycles, continually circulating as valuable nutrients for industry." (Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility).
The term "cradle to cradle" is a registered trademark of McDonough/Braungart Design Chemistry.
Michael Braingart, of the above company, helped initiative the modern concept of C2C.
A good book to begin with is:
Cradle to cradle: Remaking the way we make things. William McDonough, Michael Braungart.
Or, start with the related TED Talk,
https://www.ted.com/talks/william_mcdonough_on_cradle_to_cradle_design
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