In Finland, seven non-profit “reuse centres” have popped up around Helsinki, offering preloved furniture, clothes, toys, books, sports gear and cookware.

Slovakian designer Šimon Kern's Beleaf chair is made from a mixture of recycledleaves and bio-resin.

London-based designer designer Peter Marigold is launching a remouldable bioplastic card that can be used to make new tools and modify or repair broken objects.

Retailers and producers of packaging will be forced to pay the full cost of collecting and recycling it under the government’s new waste strategy.

BASF’s ChemCycling project is a new innovative way to reutilize the plastic wastes by thermochemical processes to produce syngas or oils.

Viele weiche PVC-Sorten sind gesundheitsgefährdend. Ein Konsortium der Hamburger und Bielfelder Universitäten sowie der BASF SE sucht deshalb nach biobasierten Alternativen.

TheCircularLab creates a plastic from plant waste that can be recycled, composted and can biodegrade in a marine environment.

Design graduate Micaella Pedros demonstrates how heat-shrunk plastic bottles can be used to create stable furniture joints in this movie filmed by Dezeen for the Royal College of Art.

Imports of 16 types of solid waste, including compressed car scraps and scrapped ships, will be banned from Dec 31, and another 16 types will be banned from the end of next year. China will completely stop importing solid waste by the end of 2020.

Sulfur is a waste product from many industrial processes and could be an alternative to oil from which to manufacture plastics.