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...
What Pet Waste Costs: The Litter, Bags, and Packaging Filling America’s Landfills
Every year, Americans bury an estimated two million tons or more of used clay cat...
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...
Glass: Recycling’s Negative-Value Problem
The average American household uses about 150 pounds of glass containers each year, but more...
The World Is Wasting About $29 Trillion a Year. Here’s Where It Goes.
Imagine if every time the world made $100, it threw away $31 of it. Not...
When the Lawn Becomes the Fuse: How Climate Change Is Rewiring Grass and Wildfire
More than 25,000 square miles of the U.S. Great Basin, an area nearly twelve times...
Zero-Waste Cleaning and Laundry Tips
One load of laundry can release up to 1.5 million tiny plastic fibers into the...