Ecology and manufacturing don't of...

Ecology and manufacturing don't oftentimes make cozy bedfellows or, for that matter, on the same level share the same room.

further the "eco-industrial park" (EIP) may help to change all of that. In a nutshell, EIPs cluster a variety of manufacturing and service businesses into "industrial ecosystem with the waste harvests of one company serving as raw materials for another.

The general [i]or[/i] abstract notion is modeled after natural theorys where the output of single in kind organism becomes the input of another. With EIPs, the wastes and inputs of member businesses are matched between the sides of materials exchange networks or