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No Waste Challenge Nominees: Amsterdam
Shortlist zeroes in on the sustainable materials of the future
No Waste Challenge Nominees: Delhi
Shortlist highlights a social approach to tackling India's waste problem
No Waste Challenge Nominees: Mexico City
Shortlist brings ideas to take recycling and composting to the next level
No Waste Challenge Nominees: Nairobi
Shortlist champions circular strategies for better health and wellbeing
No Waste Challenge Nominees: São Paulo & Rio
Shortlist features everyday solutions for makers, home cooks and waste pickers
No Waste Challenge Nominees: Tokyo
Shortlist draws inspiration from ancient techniques to artificial intelligence
No Waste Challenge Nominees: Global
Shortlist includes fashion chains, foraging campaigns and a living coffin
Yinka Ilori brings joy to a basketball court
London-based artist designs a colourful public court for Canary Wharf
85 promising ideas for a world beyond waste
Introducing the No Waste Challenge nominees
A Downing Street Disaster
Studio Birthplace & Greenpeace release animated film about UK's plastic exports
Four Trends Shaping Circular Design Today
Less plastic, more people power + other big ideas from the No Waste Challenge
‘The Earth feels and lives just like us’
Notes on indigenous knowledge from ‘Urgent Conversations on Earth Day’
Paola Antonelli launches ‘Broken Nature’ podcast
A four-part series to examine our fragile ties to the environment
The difference between appropriation & appreciation
Notes on power, identity and community from ‘Urgent Conversations on Earth Day’
Kiji Arita revives forgotten ceramics in Japan
Sander Wassink & Yoriko Ishizawa discuss their latest collaboration
Past Challenge winners – where are they now?
See how 5 winners of WDCD Challenges continue to grow their impact today
Plastic In the Air
New interactive website visualises the microplastics in the air we breathe
No Waste Challenge receives a record-breaking 1409 entries
The global design competition now enters its selection phase
Urgent Conversations on Earth Day
An online event about design, climate action & ancestral knowledge
Wekesa Zablon on his hyper-local approach to circularity
No Waste Challenge in Nairobi: Tackling mobility, food and community
Food waste, reimagined
Foodvalley NL highlights six circular initiatives changing the way we eat and farm
Making objects and queering spaces
Coolhuntermx celebrates women in Mexico's creative industries for #IWD2021
Six innovations taking on the plastic waste crisis
WWF highlights bold solutions to achieve no plastic in nature by 2030