The Blue Economy cites a new business model in Chinawhere novel paper production turns crushed rocks, includingmining waste that has piled up over centuries into sheets for printing, writing and packaging without the use of water, withoutcutting down a tree, and recyclable forever. It details how thistles, considered a weed, is turned into a plastic, a lubricant and a herbicideconverting an old petrochemical plant into a biorefinery.