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• British families waste less food since recession, government survey suggests

  22 Oct 2014: FSA polling shows people are less likely to throw food away and have changed shopping habits to find bargains and reduce waste because of financial pressures
  

• Government urged to tackle stalled recycling rates in England

  22 Oct 2014: More political action is needed to reduce waste and improve recycling rates to meet EU targets by 2020, says report by MPs

• Waste-free, Willy Wonka packaging is coming but are consumers ready for it?

  Guardian Professional, 21 Oct 2014: From edible water bottles to yoghurt encased in fruit flavoured skins, the packaging industry is getting creative, but psychological barriers persist

• Scottish shops start charging for bags

  20 Oct 2014: Charge of at least 5p a carrier bag introduced in bid to emulate 70% fall in usage in Wales and Northern Ireland

• Prada, Dior and Nike are finding a fashionable new purpose for fish skins

  Guardian Professional, 16 Oct 2014: Fish leftovers are often turned into meal for animals, but top brands are growing interested in turning fish skin into leather

• The US, South Africa and Australia are turning wastewater into drinking water

  Guardian Professional, 13 Oct 2014: Water stressed cities are importing water and investing in desalination plants. Could treating sewage plant wastewater offer a local energy-efficient way of securing water supply?

• The footwear industry is taking steps towards sustainability

  Guardian Professional, 9 Oct 2014: From shoes inspired by Japanese Shinto temples to grinding old trainers into pellets for running tracks

• Bristol restaurant opts for ingredients plucked from supermarket skips

  8 Oct 2014: Not-for-profit Skipchen’s teams of volunteers ‘intercept’ foodstuffs thrown out after best-before dates to create eclectic dishes

• Smelly, contaminated, full of disease: the world’s open dumps are growing

  6 Oct 2014: Almost 40% of the world’s waste ends up in huge rubbish tips, mostly found near urban populations in poor countries, posing a serious threat to human health and the environment. John Vidal reports

• The world's biggest and most dangerous dump sites – interactive

  6 Oct 2014: Waste is now a global business yet more than half of the world’s population use dumps for disposing rubbish, creating massive sites full of hazardous materials

• 10 things we learned in recent circular economy live chat

  Guardian Professional, 6 Oct 2014: Experts told us that GDP is a meaningless measurement, bioplastics might do more harm than good and it is possible to go too circular

• Clothing bin wars: the battle over your charitable used donations

  2 Oct 2014: As charities like Goodwill fight for your discarded clothes, a growing army of rogue operators snatch up donations

• UK nuclear bomb factories rapped by watchdogs over radioactive waste

  2 Oct 2014: Atomic Weapons Establishment issued with non-compliance notice by Environment Agency over handling of hazardous waste

• It's time to shout stop on this war on the living world

  1 Oct 2014: George Monbiot: Our consumption is trashing a natural world infinitely more fascinating and intricate than the stuff we produce

• Innovations in mobile phone recycling: biomining to dissolving circuit boards

  Guardian Professional, 30 Sep 2014: More than 1.8bn mobile phones were purchased in 2013 and only 3% will be recycled. Can emerging technologies boost these low rates?

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