Being green isn’t easy for Kermit the Frog. But for manufacturing and design engineers, it’s a lot easier than they might think.
According to Jonathan G. Overly, a research associate at the Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville), that’s exactly the situation we all face as citizens of the world. "The vast majority of what we consume is not returned to the natural system," he says. "It’s put in the ground as solid waste or it’s burned.