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• 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

• Bill Tippett obituary

  13 Oct 2014:

  Other lives: Research chemist who was a passionate environmentalist

• TraidRemade launches two limited-edition collections – in pictures

  10 Oct 2014: The ethical fashion label TraidRemade has collaborated with Percival menswear and Olivia Hegarty on two limited-edition men and women’s collections
  

• 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

• 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

• From edicures to utilitarian up-dos: seven fashion trends from the Festival of Thrift

  1 Oct 2014: Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway’s second Festival of Thrift this weekend saw 40,000 people descend on Darlington for a weekend of upcycling, recycling, make do and mend, discothrift and edible manicures. Here are the highlights

• 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?

• Simple, sustainable and not 'superchef': the UK's first zero-waste restaurant

  30 Sep 2014: Silo in Brighton mills its own flour for bread, brews its own booze and recycles all food waste. The chef and founder tells Andrew Wasley why it dares to be different
  

• MEPs demand reassurances EU green policies are not being downgraded

  30 Sep 2014: Fears over a shift towards deregulation on eco policy could stall appointment of Karmenu Vella as environment commissioner

• How to set up your own repair cafe

  17 Sep 2014: Llandrindod Repair Cafe in Wales is part of the Repair Cafe Foundation. Want to prepare, share and repair too? These tips will help you fix it
  

• The joys of a repair cafe: Mad Max with a KitKat and a nice cup of tea

  17 Sep 2014: When Niall Griffiths took his broken speaker to Llandrindod repair cafe in Wales, the solution sounded embarrassingly obvious
  

• Share your pictures of good and bad packaging

  Guardian Professional, 16 Sep 2014: Packaging is everywhere and on everything. Take a picture of the best and worst examples you see and share it on GuardianWitness

• How to reupholster an office chair

  16 Sep 2014: Shabby fabric on a threadbare chair? Spruce up your seating with a professional finish by following these simple steps
  

• Swap till you drop: why a clothing exchange beats London fashion week

  15 Sep 2014: Leeds Community Clothing Exchange brings far more than fantastic fashion bargains – it cuts down on clothes waste and is a vibrant social event
  

• How to create treasures out of rubbish

  13 Sep 2014: The Skip Sisters go skip-diving en masse, build dolls out of pianos and never let a good piece of rubbish go to waste

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