The National Grid has teamed up with E.ON to use surplus waste heat to power 100,000 new homes.
It takes Britain just 10 minutes to throw away seven tonnes of clothes; a charity that uses supermarket seconds to supply 150,000 meals a week is making use of just two per cent of the supermarket's surplus waste; one single supplier (albeit a hugely successful one) is throwing away 3,000 tonnes of perfectly edible carrots a year because they don't meet so-called cosmetic standards.
But using specialized microbial fermentation, the surplus wasted acid whey could be converted into value-added chemicals.
To dispose of surplus wastes and protect against it from falling into the wrong hands, the US has plans to mix plutonium with uranium to make mixed oxide (MOX) fuel for power reactors.
When you think as he does, there is certainly a lot of surplus wasted heat generated in the modern world: in lighting, in a host of transformers attached to gadgets in every home and office, in internal combustion engines.
In Vojvodina, as the raw materials for bioethanol production are seen primarily sugar beet, corn, wheat surpluses, potato surpluses and waste potato, as well as the raw materials intended for these purposes grown on the uncultivated soils, such as hybrid broomcorn, Jerusalem artichoke and triticale.
Gove appointed Ben Elliot, the co-founder of luxury lifestyle group Quintessentially, as the first "food surplus and waste champion" to reduce "unnecessary" food surplus in the UK.
As he builds his material world with his own hands, Crusoe, the plantation owner on his way to buy slaves when he was shipwrecked, discovers the fundamental truth of economics: without society, surplus is waste not profit.
Now Livia Firth is moving into design: last week she revealed she is working on a line for the online retailer Yoox's eco brand Yooxygen, in partnership with Reclaim To Wear, which helps designers recycle textile surplus and waste.
This will help in converting unwanted, surplus agricultural waste, of which billions of kilograms are produced annually, to value-added products (Vieira et al. 2009).
Besides being a society predicated on surplus and waste, ours is a republic of largely commercial values.
