"The promise of a closed-loop society -- where everything is recycled endlessly into new products and packaging -- remains a distant dream, though it creeps ever closer. Companies are finding new and innovative ways to turn old things into new things. It's far from the Holy Grail of Cradle to Cradle -- in which every material is recycled back to a raw material or into a benign or beneficial soil amendment -- but it's a start." (Quoted from article)