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Compounding the interest. Recycling the by-products of your primary production is the very essence of sustainable capitalism.

Similar to capturing the “waste heat” from a power plant to heat homes or use in a secondary process, and eventually allowing very little to escape to the surrounding environment.

Imagine now ? if you could recapture the wasted heat from just driving your car or truck ?
2/3rds of the gasoline that you buy is wasted going out the exhaust and cooling system.
Now imagine if you could, well BMW did, develop a thermal electric generator that could be used on a car's exhaust system to charge batteries ? or be used to power some of your car's electrical systems taking away some of the need for the alternator taking power away from the engine and save gasoline ?
Believe it or not you can even cook food on your car's exhaust manifold and there are some people on YouTube that have done just that.
I know right now it's not practical but the wasted heat from your cooling system could be hooked up to some kind of heat exchanger to heat your house or be used to for hot water.

Bingo Dingo Ringo, nothing goes to waste, re purpose everything.
Even waste saw dust, or grass clippings, even leaves off of trees people have found ways to make pellets or briquettes with them and burn them in stoves, or even run engines with wood waste.
Even cow poop can be dried and burned as fuel.
Decades ago when they tear down a building all that waste went to a landfill, but now even old concrete is broken up and reused.
I think even old asphalt can be ground up reheated and reused.