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Lillian Childress
Built Environment/Fall 2017/Leadership/Natural Capital/Supply Chain/Waste/Water/Workplace

Industrial symbiosis

by Lillian Childress

Nature does not produce garbage. Fungus decomposes rotting wood, supplying plants in the soil with nutrients. Animals eat the plants as sustenance,

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