18.2 Million Mattresses Disposed a Year, and Most of Them Get Buried
Pull the sheets back from the numbers and the American mattress starts to look less...
Best of Sustainability In Your Ear: Author Nadina Galle on The Nature of Our Cities
More than half the world’s population—4.4 billion people—live in cities today. That number is expected...
The EPA Is Changing the Rules for Plastic Recycling Plants
On March 20, 2026, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule change that could fundamentally...
Sustainability In Your Ear: Trex Makes Circularity Work
Less than 2% of Americans can put plastic film in their curbside recycling bin, according...
Diaper Dilemma: $840 a Year, 500 Years to Decompose
A typical American baby goes through roughly 2,500 to 3,000 disposable diapers in the first...
10 Books to Counter Consumerism
We are constantly bombarded by messages that tell us we need more stuff to be...
Best of Sustainability In Your Ear: EarthX CEO Peter Simek on Cultivating Bipartisan Climate Strategies
Subscribe to receive transcripts by email. Read along with this episode. For 15 years, the...
Glass: Recycling’s Negative-Value Problem
The average American household uses about 150 pounds of glass containers each year, but more...