New regulation forces fashion brands to face and account for their overproduction problem, with resale, donation, repair, recycling or simply more thoughtful output.

A new study by a leading journal has found people with plastic particles in their arteries are more likely to suffer a heart attack or die in the following years than those without – and the most likely carrier of the particles? Cigarette smoke.

The highly criticised event managed to generate almost 3 times the amount of trash of the previous tournament in Qatar and double the average amount of CO2 emissions.

Seven years after its glitzy launch, the viral project has made millions, but fallen short of its promised impact. Experts had been warning of this all along: their story is now being told.

The EU has cut funding for waste-to-energy and Germany now taxes it, so European and Japanese firms are expanding elsewhere, backed by international finance and the carbon credits market.