"cradle-to-grave" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2010, Salah El Haggar, Sustainable Industrial Design and Waste Management, Academic Press, page 125",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2010, Mungo MacCallum, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 28",
          "text": "Politics should be a cradle-to-grave calling: anything else is mere distraction."
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          "ref": "2023 June 14, “Engineering a brighter future for UK rail”, in RAIL, number 985, page 52",
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        "(idiomatic) Spanning an entire lifetime, from birth to death."
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