At present we throw everything away.
But we now know that there is no ‘away’. Waste is just a waste.
And when it accumulates it becomes damaging.
The living world faces the same problem,
and we can copy its solutions.
In nature the waste from one process becomes the food for the next.
All materials are reused in cycles involving many different species,
and everything is ultimately biodegradable.
We can bring the same efficiencies into our societies. Designing secular economies
from the ground up that can cycle the materials we need forever.