Industrial ecology

Industrial system proposed in 1989 by Robert Frosch and Nicholas E. Gallopoulos that proposes a shift in the traditional industrial vision. Under this new concept, the industrial system should behave like an ecosystem, where the wastes of one process can be used for other processes, consequently reducing pollution and use of raw materials. This new point of view proposes to see industrial systems as part of the biosphere, as another ecosystem based on infrastructural capital. According to this view, if the natural ecosystems do not have any waste, the industrial ecosystems should not have any either.