As such its (somewhat wordy) Vanishing Programmable Resources (VAPR) program has been set up to create rugged technology, that can degradeinto its surroundings when triggered.
In Sweden he visited a plant where refuse is rotated in an unused rotary kiln for three days, allowing bacteria that thrive in that temperature to quickly degrade it into fertilizer and bits of plastic.
The report suggests that the sustainability of coral reefs will depend in large part on whether developing countries can improve their well-being without falling into a poverty trap -- a situation when communities are forced to degrade the very resources they rely on because of a lack of alternatives for making ends meet.