Industry

Improve materials. Use waste. Address refrigerants. Enhance efficiency.

From concrete to computers, cars to clothing, industry is the sector of production that makes them all. It includes strings of connected activities: extracting raw materials, manufacturing component parts and completed goods, provisioning them for use, dealing with disposal, and (possibly) putting waste back to work. The dominant mode of operation is take-make-use-trash—a linear flow of materials that is inefficient and untenable.