London-based designer Charlotte Kidger gives new life to polyurethane foam dust by turning it into multi-coloured pieces of furniture. Kidger's Industrial Craft collection makes use of the by-products ...

The Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui crafts waste material from the streets into masterpieces.

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Extracting materials is wreaking havoc on the planet. Could the world's growing mounds of waste hold the key to sustainable construction? We now smash, grab and pull some 100 billion tonnes of raw ...