The Brighton Waste House is Britain's first house made almost entirely from rubbish using chalk, coffee cups and lights en route to Bangladesh for scrap
The four main stages of the lifecycle of a product - introduction, growth, maturity and decline - can be optimised with circular economy principles in mind
A floating swimming pool in New York’s Hudson river and a business turning cigarette butts into plastic pellets, hope to change perception of pollution and waste
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