The Life Recycling Act, also known as the Life Recycling Law, was introduced by the Galaxy Federation in T.C. 4590, approved and implemented not even a year later in T.C. 4591 (about 177 years before Episode I), as a means to recycle the bodies of the dead. Those who had registered to be donors in life had their bodies recycled and turned into cyborgs by Ziggurat Industries, such as Ziggurat 8. However, they were resurrected as weapons, with their human rights stripped from them. Also, "recycling" was interpreted as extending the effective utilization of genes, and the bill was seen as including human clones and genetic and cranial nerve modification. The Life Recycling Act resulted in Life Recycling Variants, as well as the Species Preservation Act.