Industrial ecology is the study of material and energy flows through industrial systems, focusing on shifting linear open industrial processes into closed loop processes. It has several focal areas including material and energy flow studies, proper waste usage and carbon reduction, technological changes and their environmental impacts, and life-cycle planning, design, and assessment. The origins of industrial ecology come from the idea proposed by Frosch and Gallopoulos that industrial systems could function like ecosystems, with the wastes of one industry becoming resources for another, thus reducing raw material usage, pollution, and waste treatment needs.

1. Industrial Ecology
Haniel Zadok

2. Industrial ecology
"systems-based, multidisciplinary
discourse that seeks to understand
emergent behavior of complex
integrated human or natural systems“
Industrial ecology is the study of
material and energy flows through
industrial systems.

3. Overview of industrial ecology
Focuses on shifting of linear open industrial
processes into closed loop processes
Focal Areas
• material and energy flow studies
• Proper usage of waste and reduction of
carbon
• technological change and the environment
• life-cycle planning, design and assessment

4. Focal Areas of industrial ecology
• design for the environment
• Larger producer responsibility towards
environment
• Industrial symbiosis
• product-oriented environmental policy
• Ecological efficiency

5. Origins of industrial ecology
Frosch and Gallopoulos:"why would not our
industrial system behave like an ecosystem,
where the wastes of a species may
be resource to another species? Why would
not the outputs of an industry be the inputs of
another, thus reducing use of raw materials,
pollution, and saving on waste treatment?"

6. The answer

7. goals

8. tools