The Chip Bag Problem: America’s Least Recycled Material Is Also Its Fastest-Growing
The bag your potato chips come in is seven layers deep. Metalized polyester, a plastic...
Best of Sustainability In Your Ear: Making Billions of Square Feet of Commercial Space Sustainable with CBRE’s Rob Bernard
The built environment, particularly office buildings other urban facilities, are responsible for 39% of the...
About That $3,000 Bag of Groceries in Your Trash
Editor’s Note: This is the first article in a new Earth911 series, Where Waste Comes...
The Price Tag on a Ton of Carbon: What It Is, Why It Keeps Changing, and What It Means for Your Future
If you took one long-haul flight each year for the past decade, the world would...
Sustainability In Your Ear: Zena Harris Brings a Green Spark to Hollywood
An average big-budget movie creates about 3,370 metric tons of CO₂, according to the Sustainable...
7 Retailers With Impressive Recycling Programs
Forty thousand miles of plastic waste wash through the global ocean every year, enough to...
Most Americans Are Worried About the Environment. Is Congress?
More Americans than ever think the environment is in bad shape, and they want the...
Best of Sustainability In Your Ear: Turning Waste Into New Products And Packaging With Overlay Capital’s Elizabeth Blankenship-Singh
Read a transcript of this episode. Subscribe to receive transcripts. What we call waste is...