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From an app that redistributes restaurant leftovers to a charity that repurposes hotel toiletries, three projects that turn waste into something useful

Nicola Eckersley and her husband, former professional footballer Richard Eckersley, run Earth.Food.Love, a zero-waste shop that stocks only ethical goods and where packaging is banned

The new issue of Positive News magazine, out today, features a cover story about the people who are turning around society’s addiction to plastic. Editor Lucy Purdy introduces the issue and asks: [...]

A London-based catering business is turning surplus artisan produce into high-quality, affordable meals

Love lattes, but worried about waste? Here are three projects putting leftover coffee grounds to good use

Next week, clothes recycling charity Traid will be urging people to wear secondhand instead of buying new. Could instilling pride in wearing pre-owned clothes help avoid wasteful fast fashion?

From architecture to healthcare; we look at new ways in which 3D printing is helping society to progress

Research has highlighted the importance of waste pickers to cities around the world

Scotland’s environment secretary has challenged the nation to #MakeThingsLast with the launch of a social media engagement campaign to promote repairing, reusing and remanufacturing as part of a [...]

A London-based surf brand wants to tackle increasing levels of plastic waste along the UK coastline by transforming it into beachwear

UK supermarket giant Asda is trialling a new range of misshapen fruit and vegetables – sold at reduced prices – in what they say is an attempt to cut food waste

A new project, the first of its kind globally, will see rubbish otherwise bound for landfill turned into clean aviation fuel

A Sainsbury’s store in Cannock has become the first supermarket in the world to derive 100% of its power through its own food waste

A new report highlights billion-pound economy boost to be had in better resource efficiency

Supermarket chain Intermarché in France has been selling ‘ugly’ fruit and vegetables to customers at a discounted rate to highlight the problem of food waste and provide customers with a cheaper [...]

Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a ‘self-healing’ plastic that could one day allow objects from cracked mobile phone screens to meteor-battered space probes to [...]

The government is to introduce a 5p charge for plastic bags in England from 2015 in an effort to discourage their use and reduce waste

Today is World Environment Day and the 2013 theme is anti-food waste. With up to 2bn tonnes of food discarded worldwide every year, Michelin-rated chef and SuperScrimpers’ star Dev Biswal gives [...]

People around the world are dying of starvation while others are killed by obesity. This broken model needs fixing, says new organisation Food Tank

Wood otherwise bound for the bin is being put to good use as furniture