A world without waste: the rise of urban mining

Commercial properties could become the mines of the future, providing materials for reuse and cutting costs and landfill wasteOut with the old, in with the new: that’s the basic template for office refurbishments. Not if you’re a champion of sustainable building. So when the the UK Green Building Council decided its central London head office needed a makeover, it set itself the challenge of working out what it could keep.Some of the furnishings and fittings just needed a little spru