Do Tires Tower Over Other Recycled Materials?
Tires get recycled more than almost anything else Americans throw away. About 79% of worn-out...
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...
Recycling Solar Panels In 2026: Investments Paying Off
A solar panel installed this spring will likely still be generating electricity when today’s kindergartners...
How Precision Fermentation Could Rewrite Milk’s Climate Equation
Making just one kilogram of regular milk protein can release up to 72 kilograms of...
California Just Put Its Buildings on an Environmental Scoreboard
Every year, California’s commercial and apartment buildings burn through 109 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, guzzle...
Best of Sustainability In Your Ear: Luke Purdy, Wieden+Kennedy’s Director of Sustainability, on Advertising’s Power To Change
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Fast Furniture and the 12-Million-Ton Reckoning
Americans threw away 12.1 million tons of furniture in 2018, the most recent year the...