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In South Africa, informal waste pickers recover between 80% and 90% of all plastic and paper that actually gets recycled. There are about 14...

Most school uniforms are retired while they are still perfectly wearable. Children cycle through them on a predictable annual schedule as th...

About a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions come from the food system, but the public conversation about food and climate keeps getti...

Less than 2% of Americans can put plastic film in their curbside recycling bin, according to The Recycling Partnership . Meanwhile, the coun...

A traditional sustainability certification can take six to eight weeks and thousands of dollars in consultancy fees, and still leave purchas...

Americans throw away nearly 5 million tons of film and flexible plastic packaging every year, and less than 1% of it gets recycled , accordi...

An average big-budget movie creates about 3,370 metric tons of CO₂, according to the Sustainable Production Alliance's 2021 report . That’s...

In 2024, the global market for eco-labeled products crossed $500 billion. Electric vehicles, bamboo toothbrushes, compostable packaging — th...

$850 billion . That's what retail and e-commerce returns will cost in 2026, generating 8.4 billion pounds of landfill waste — and a surprisi...

The global energy system is changing in two big ways: it is moving from centralized fossil-fuel generation to distributed renewables, and it...

Most business leaders believe sustainability costs money. They’re wrong. The proof is sitting right under their noses, bleeding out quietly...

Every wildfire starts small. The problem is that by the time most are detected, minutes have already passed and, under increasingly common c...

Cattle are one of the most consequential climate problems hiding in plain sight on the dinner table. Livestock are responsible for roughly 1...

Forests are vital for people everywhere. They cover about 4.14 billion hectares, roughly a third of the world’s land, and store 714 gigatons...

We already have the technology to decarbonize buildings, and many pilot projects have shown it works. So why hasn’t progress toward net zero...

The U.S. waste management industry moves more than 290 million tons of municipal solid waste each year. This is a potential trillion-dollar...

Each year, over 11 million metric tons of plastic end up in the ocean, which is like dumping a garbage truck full of plastic every minute. F...

Subscribe to receive transcripts by email. Read along with this episode . Every gallon of wastewater flowing through a municipal sewer conta...

Subscribe to receive transcripts by email. Read along with this episode . ' Global investment in the energy transition reached $2.2 trillion...

Read a transcript of this episode . Subscribe to receive transcripts. What we call waste is really just misallocated feedstock—raw materials...