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Industrial Ecology and the Generation of Valuable By-products

Restorer technology is ecologically engineered and is based on the principles of "industrial ecology". In broadest terms, industrial ecology creates symbiotic systems throughout society, sharing and distributing resources in ways that mimic natural ecosystems. The result is high overall efficiencies. The concept links normally unconnected sectors of society's infrastructures. Furthermore, pollution can be mostly, if not completely eliminated as one component's wastes is another components energy, nutrients, or materials source.

Most often polluted water contains the essential elements of life - carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus and so on, which can be reassembled by natural processes or systems into valuable and useful products. In essence, "wastewater" is treated as a resource, and the designer asks the question "how can the compounds in this resource stream be efficiently reassembled to create something of value?"