[Article] As landfills pile up with consumer goods designed to be discarded, architect William McDonough believes we do not necessarily throw away too much; we just throw away the wrong kinds of things. The problem of waste is a problem of design, and one need look no further than a cherry tree for the solution.
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The environmental bane of our increasingly global culture of consumerism, it is often thought, is an accelerating trend towards product disposability. From diapers to electronics to appliances, mountain ranges of landfills form new peaks daily with each shipment of short-lived consumer goods. As long...
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