Waste Age: Get involved

Take action

Get inspired by the Waste Age: What can design do? exhibition and find out some of the small actions that can help to make a big difference.

It's time to #EndTheWasteAge

EVALUATE:

Calculate, track and reduce your environmental footprint: Giki Zero
Do a bin audit: The Whole Food Diary

LEARN:

Watch: Climate Solutions 101
Read: From What Is to What If: Unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want by Rob Hopkins
Listen: Circular Podcast by Katie Treggiden (First season is on Waste, the second is on Repair)
Follow: @greendesigns

DO:

Recycle your electronics: How to recycle electronics and electricals
Sign a Petition for the right to repair in the UK: The Restart Project
Speak for the Earth: Earth Speaker

Ticket Mate Fund

Donate a Waste Age ticket

Ticket Mate Fund is a pay it forward scheme that offers you the chance to donate an exhibition ticket to young people and adults in the local community for whom price might be a barrier to participation – including those most affected by the COVID-19 crisis.

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Opens 23 October 2021

Waste Age: What can design do?

We are living in the age of waste. Is design the answer to leaving our throwaway culture behind?

Waste Age: What can design do?

Background image by Ben Taylor. Project: Charlotte McCurdy and Phillip Lim's algae bioplastic sequins for a biodegradable plant-based dress.