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...
About That $3,000 Bag of Groceries in Your Trash
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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...
5 Fun Ways To Recycle Your Jeans
The average American discards roughly 82 pounds of clothing and textiles each year — and...
Recycling Mystery: Label Backing Sheets
More than 400,000 tons of release liner waste are generated in the United States every...
3 Countries’ Food Waste Strategies: What Can They Teach Us?
Each year, the U.S. discards 38 to 40 percent of its food, a stubbornly high...
Best of Sustainability In Your Ear: Dandelion Energy CEO Dan Yates On How Geothermal Leasing Could Transform Home Heating and Cooling
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How To Grow Vegetables With Aquaponics
One gallon of water. That’s roughly how much a well-run aquaponics system uses to grow...