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Title: Manufacturing process without recycling


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Manufacturing process without recycling
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Manufacturing process with recycling
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Natural Resource Extraction
  • Removal of resources takes a tremendous amount of
    energy
  • Can release carbon trapped in carbon sinks.
  • Temporarily or permanently eliminates carbon
    sinks and their ability to remove carbon from the
    atmosphere.
  • Leaves behind significant pollution which causes
    long-term damage to ecosystems and can further
    damage carbon sinks.

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Processing
  • Takes a tremendous amount of direct energy.
  • Takes a significant amount of hidden energy and
    resources to create the equipment and facilities
    to do this processing.
  • Leaves behind significant pollution which causes
    long-term damage to ecosystems and carbon sinks.

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Manufacturing
  • Takes a tremendous amount of direct energy.
  • Takes a significant amount of hidden energy and
    resources to create the equipment and facilities
    to do this processing.
  • Leaves behind significant pollution which causes
    long-term damage to ecosystems and carbon sinks.

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Disposal
  • Organic materials (food, paper wood) in a
    landfill rot anaerobically, and produce
    significant amounts of methane, a ghg 20-25 times
    more damaging than CO2.
  • The construction of a landfill is basically the
    digging of a giant pit (from as little as 20
    acres to over 100 acres. This digging releases
    any carbon that had been trapped in those soils,
    as well as removing any trees or other vegetative
    carbon sinks that were previously on the land.

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Transportation
  • Takes a tremendous amount of direct energy,
    fossil fuels, and generates a significant amount
    of CO2.
  • Often tremendous mileage between point of
    resource extraction and product consumption.
  • Takes a significant amount of hidden energy and
    resources to create the equipment and
    infrastructure for this transportation.

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  • Recycling
  • Reduces the need for or the impact of many steps
    in the manufacturing process.
  • Provides resources for the manufacture of future
    products.
  • Waste/Consumption Reduction (including reuse)
  • Not consuming products eliminates most steps in
    the manufacturing process and their impacts.
  • Does not provide resources for the manufacture of
    future products.
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