Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I read this for a seminar I took in law school that challenged us to read nonfiction books on a number of social and ethical topics. I loved the physical book, that true to the author's word, you could bring right into the shower with you, and I loved his message that we need to aim higher in our environmental goals. Rather than reducing waste or recycling products (downcycling he called it) we need to be creating products that produce no waste or produce consumable waste as nature does.

It just got a bit boring in the technical details. Eventually, I donated the book, and I wonder sometimes what happened to it. Did it make it to the next reader perfectly intact as the book doesn't degrade, or if it did ironically end up in a landfill to never ever break down?

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