“In nature there is no waste.”

Dr. Kimberly Samaha (ENG’89)
Dr. Kimberly Samaha (ENG’89), founder and CEO of the Born Global Foundation, describes her group’s exploration of reusing and recycling wasted materials to create new products—and the inspiration she draws from the lack of waste in nature.

“There’s always a feedback cycle,” she says. “We should find ways to reincorporate things that are wasted into inputs that are useful.”