consider the barriers beforehand and implement industrial ecology, car manufacturers could give back to the environment and at the same time increase profit.
             When taking a closer look at Industrial Ecology we understand that this concept should all together change the way of recycling goods by making companies take responsibility for the disassembly and reproduction of their products after their usage, making each industry take awareness of resources abuse. The main idea is to focus on the environment to obtain full usage of resources. As Robert Frosch mentions in one of his article on the subject, this implies analyzing production in a kind of loop, in which products are generated thinking of their life span as almost endless (Industrial Ecology, 68). When a product was not used anymore, reaching what has been considered the end of its useful life, Industrial Ecology would seek to bring the manufactured item to its foundation in order to use it for a different thing. Frosch also points out that Industrial Ecology works in a logical way: "Waste is wasteful," and so anything in a company that is not used represents an unnecessary expenses and is wasted (IE of the 21st Century, 178). The implementation of this idea would put together the issues of caring for our environment with those of achieving high profit.
             Currently, industries classified their products as either consumable or service products. Socolow describes consumable products as those whose use is short, and then are returned to the natural environment usually after only one use. Examples of these are soaps, detergents, and food. Services are those that provide a service over and over, for example televisions, computers, washers, dryers and containers. Industrial Ecology suggests that consumable goods should be biodegradable, so that their disposal doesn't affect the environment. The materials that make up service goods are not that important. Wha...