Do Tires Tower Over Other Recycled Materials?
Tires get recycled more than almost anything else Americans throw away. About 79% of worn-out...
Good, Better, Best — Reducing Metal Waste
This is the third in a series of articles about reducing the amount of the...
Best of Sustainability In Your Ear: CurbWaste’s Mike Marmo Is Building the Waste Logistics Layer of the Circular Economy
The U.S. waste management industry moves more than 290 million tons of municipal solid waste...
Sustainability In Your Ear: Urban Surfer’s Sifiso Gumbi on Organizing South Africa’s Recycling System
In South Africa, informal waste pickers recover between 80% and 90% of all plastic and...
How Humans Created Genetic Bottlenecks Inside Threatened Species
Graft a patch of skin from one wild cheetah onto another, unrelated cheetah, and the...
Recycling Solar Panels In 2026: Investments Paying Off
A solar panel installed this spring will likely still be generating electricity when today’s kindergartners...
Earth911 Inspiration: What Kind of Difference Will You Make?
The late, renowned scientist and conservationist Jane Goodall reminds us that we all have an...
How Precision Fermentation Could Rewrite Milk’s Climate Equation
Making just one kilogram of regular milk protein can release up to 72 kilograms of...