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Nine brilliant ideas for recycling waste
Turn fatbergs into fuel
Fatberg hunters: Turning fat from the sewer into fuel
How one company is turning sewer fat into biodiesel
Turning rubbish into jewellery and furniture
The most beautiful rubbish you will ever see
Vienna's unemployed are upcycling electrical waste into objects of desire
Use plastic bottles for bricks
BBC Minute: On 'EcoBricks'
A South African company is saving the environment by using plastic bottles as bricks
Make a bicycle helmet out of paper
The bicycle helmet...made of paper
Isis Shiffer talks us through her award-winning invention.
Recycle old plastic to make clothes
Can plastic clothes save the oceans?
How one company is turning plastic waste into cash for poor communities
Build a children's library from books found in the rubbish
The world's most rubbish book collection
Jose Alberto Gutierrez has rescued thirty thousand books from bins in Columbia.
Make a bike from a bamboo
The benefits of a bamboo bike
It's lighter than steel, absorbs more shocks, and could help the community
Build furniture from cow dung
How cow dung made its way into furniture design
A student's final year project led her to build fully recyclable furniture, using manure.
Make compost from your underwear
Should we throw underwear in the compost heap?
A Swedish clothes designer is developing radical ways to combat waste in fashion.
