The paper deals with the use of waste as a resource for urban regeneration and socialintegration of marginalised communities in Amman (Jordan) through the case study of the Jabal al Jofeh refugee camp, a poor ‘informal’ area with a Palestinian refugee pop-ulation characterised by high crime, unemployment and poverty rates. The proposed Urban Regeneration Plan focuses on the use and reuse of accumulated waste as con-struction material and on the creation of a neighbourhood network for the collection, sorting and recycling of waste and its transformation into saleable products that gen-erate income for the community. The vulnerable area of the camp is thus transformed into an active connection with the culturally rich historic centre of Amman through a human-centred approach to urban design and planning, creating a sustainable micro-economy with people as its main resource.