Climate Change Is Stealing Our Sleep — and the Economic Impact Could Reach the Trillions
By the end of this century, hotter nights could cost the average person roughly 16...
Yard Waste: Composting’s Success Story With a Methane Asterisk
In 1990, American landfills buried about 25 million tons of grass, leaves, and branches a...
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...
Recycling Solar Panels In 2026: Investments Paying Off
A solar panel installed this spring will likely still be generating electricity when today’s kindergartners...
One State Recycles 38% of Its Carpet. The Other 49 Recycle 9%.
A 2,000-square-foot house holds about 700 pounds of carpet. The average residential carpet lasts 5...
Fast Furniture and the 12-Million-Ton Reckoning
Americans threw away 12.1 million tons of furniture in 2018, the most recent year the...