cradle-to-grave

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Meaning: (idiomatic)Spanning an entirelifetime, frombirthtodeath.2010, Salah El Haggar,Sustainable Industrial Design and Waste Management, Academic Press,→ISBN, page125:Unsustainable human activities are creating an open loop “cradle-to-grave” system that cannot continue and has one day to reach a conclusion. Closing the loop for renewable resources is the role of changing the “cradle-to-grave” concept to a “cradle-to-cradle” concept as discussed in chapter 1.2010, Mungo MacCallum,The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 28:Politics should be acradle-to-gravecalling: anything else is mere distraction.2023June 14, “Engineering a brighter future for UK rail”, inRAIL, number985, page52:The 'cradle-to-grave'approach that the company takes to rolling stock, which typically has an asset lifecycle of up to 35 years, has made the sector attractive to investors -[…].

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