Orange Fiber

The Italian company Orange Fiber provides a tangible example of this industrial symbiosis. They have patented a process to create a sustainable, silk-like textile from the citrus pulp that is leftover from industrial juice production in Sicily. Orange Fiber [+] benefits by acquiring a low-cost, abundant raw material (a modified habitat). The citrus juice producers [=], the other party, are largely unaffected in their core business, even though they receive a minor benefit from selling a waste product that would otherwise be discarded.