Vivian went on to create the company Naturally Yours Inc. in Louisiana and she successfully entered the institutional markets based on a different type of life cycle analysis (LCA). Instead of simply arguing for price and performance, producing a highly concentrated product as the market is increasingly demanding in an effort to reduce packaging which tends to be a major contributor to pollution, she argued that the use of a raw material extracted from waste peels which would otherwise rot and generate methane gas, created a major "systemic" advantage. Using what is locally available, and giving value to what had no value is one of the core principles of the Blue Economy.

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