Guest Idea: Home Microplastics Reduction Strategies That Work
Imagine a typical suburban neighborhood. Homeowners are tending their gardens and children are playing outside,...
Made From Scratch: The Virgin Materials Price Tag on Four Everyday Products
It takes roughly 2,700 liters of water to make a single cotton t-shirt, about the...
Good, Better, Best: Eliminating Plastic Waste
This is the second in a series of articles about reducing the amount of the...
The Circular Economy Has a Blind Spot: The Stuff That Grows Back
A new Ellen MacArthur Foundation report argues that the materials we can actually regrow, including...
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...