Materials exchange relationships as a component of eco-industrial development

摘要

The goal of establishing eco-industrial relationships and precision manufacturing methods to move our society toward a sustainable industrial and solid waste management enterprise is daunting. Society has tended to look toward engineers, scientists, solid waste management experts, recycling experts, and industrial experts for answers. But many of these experts have been pointing out that technology alone will not allow us to prevail in this endeavor and that the character and nature of human relationships and human commitment to these changes is equally important. With this in mind, this paper reports on a study of eco-industrial exchange relationships in an effort to categorize the complexity levels of those relationships and to understand what makes complex relationships - complex and enduring.