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The fashion industry has a dark side, a lot darker than many of us realise. It is one of the worst polluters and wreaks havoc on our environment in countries across the world, affecting human health and wildlife with dire consequences. Many fibres that are sold in well-known shops on the high street cause harm to species - and we’re not talking about the direct impact of the fur trade.

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Around 1.3 billion tonnes of food gets wasted each year with much of it ending up in landfill and contributing to climate change. Zero-waste chef Max La Manna tells BBC Earth how we can all make a difference.

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How can you give the things we buy new life rather than dumping them in landfill (or worse still, letting them wind up in the ocean)? There are three solutions commonly used by companies at present: Recycling: turning something into the same form of itself (which is easy for things like plastic bottles); Downcycling: transforming a product into an inferior one, such as grinding running shoes down to create the surface of basketball courts; and upcycling: converting a product into a superior form, such as spinning single-use plastic bottles into polyester fabrics which might be worn for decades.

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We return to the interconnected stories of iconic savannah animals in this third series, exploring the triumphs and struggles of their daily lives.

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