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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

Goldman Environmental Prize winner Rossano Ercolini tackled Italy’s mounting waste problem and achieved what many environmentalists had only dreamed of. He talks to Rachel England about his [...]

Sculptor James McNabb has created a series of wood sculptures exploring the idea that there should be no such thing as waste

A new website has launched enabling businesses and charities to exchange unwanted items, such as building materials and office furniture, for free

A new volunteer network has been set up to distribute free food to those in need, from unsellable farm crops that would otherwise go to waste

The biochar debate may have quietened down in recent years, but entrepreneur Craig Sams – founder of Green & Blacks chocolate – says his research is showing promising signs of biochar’s potential [...]