Design for Planet: why waste is a “design flaw”

To kick of the Design Council’s Design for Planet festival, designer Sophie Thomas took delegates on a very different kind of tour. The Binn Ecopark, located some 45 minutes from the festival’s hub at V&A Dundee, is not for the faint-hearted, or those with a weak stomach.
The 62-acre site is billed as one of Scotland’s most progressive recycling and waste management operations. According to its owners it is “an established and growing” circular economy, focused