Download or read book The Blue Economy 3.0 written by Gunter Pauli and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blue Economy cites a new business model in China where novel paper production turns crushed rocks, including mining waste that has piled up over centuries into sheets for printing, writing and packaging without the use of water, without cutting down a tree, and recyclable forever. It details how thistles, considered a weed, is turned into a plastic, a lubricant and a herbicide converting an old petrochemical plant into a biorefinery.