The best way to deal with these problems is to
change the way we think about industrial land uses, for
industry to change their industrial processes to reduce
waste, and make industry ®t the environment instead
of changing the environment to ®t industry. Waste
could be reduced if industrial systems operated more
like natural ecosystems. In the natural environment,
water, nutrients and energy ¯ow in a complex web of
interactions. Little is wasted (Fig. 2).