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What is Cradle to Cradle® (C2C)
C2C is a circular waste free production system. As applied
to spatial development, C2C can be defined as a business
and design model distinguished by its aspiration to have a
positive impact. It seeks to realize this through integration
of biodiversity and diverse architectural and land use
designs into spatial developments. It utilizes environmentally
enriching and healthy building products whose component
parts are eventually cleanly separable into organic and
inorganic materials in order that the organic materials may
be reintroduced safely into a biological system, whilst the
inorganic components are reconfigured or made available for
use as new materials. It focuses on materials as a service and
ensures that materials that retain some toxicity are returned
safely into the technical cycle. It also ensures that every part
of the development life cycle is dependent entirely on an
economically viable energy source that derives ultimately from
the sun whilst protecting, cleansing and enriching the air and
water supplies to the development.
Cradle to Cradle® (C2C) is offered as a desirable and more
enlightened substitute for the current mode of wealth creation
that will have positive effects on future resources security,
the environment and health. C2C is at the moment still at the
margins of the world of practice and conventional thinking.
C2C BIZZ is intended to push the idea somewhat further into
conventional approaches to site development with the study
area.
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C2C aims to supplant the ever failing linear production and
site development system which currently dominates in the
economies of the world. The central proposition of C2C is that,
the continuing worldwide economic, environmental and health
crises are foreseeable consequences of the widespread
embracing of the linear industrial and site development
system across the world. Abandoning the linear model in
favor of a C2C model, it is argued, holds better prospects for
economic progress along with commendable environmental
and health improvement. Though its methods may lead
to outcomes that are compatible with the aspirations of
sustainability, C2C offers a completely different paradigm that
encourages ‘being good’ or eco-effectiveness in favour of the
more conventional sustainability approach of eco-efficiency
that only promotes ‘being less bad’.