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Imagine a typical suburban neighborhood. Homeowners are tending their gardens and children are playing outside, but new updates about ocean pollution leave some residents concerned as scientists report about microplastics contaminating even the most remote seafloors and affecting millions of marine life.
However, many homeowners are unaware that daily activities ...
It takes roughly 2,700 liters of water to make a single cotton t-shirt, about the same amount the average person drinks over three and a half years. That one garment, bought on impulse and worn a dozen times before it lands in a donation bin (where it’s probably exported abroad and eventually landfilled anyway), was wrung from the earth long before it ever reached your closet...
This is the second in a series of articles about reducing the amount of the most common materials among household waste.
The top three materials filling American garbage bins are paper, food waste, and plastic. Of the three, pl...
The ocean produces about half the oxygen we breathe, absorbs roughly 30% of the carbon dioxide we emit, and takes up about 90% of the excess heat those emissions trap, according to the United Nations. It is the planet’s largest life-support system — and...
A new Ellen MacArthur Foundation report argues that the materials we can actually regrow, including cotton, wood, leather, and rubber, have been mostly left out of circular thinking. Closing that gap could be worth trillions of dollars and help meet a meaningful share of our climate targets.
A single-use cup made from corn and a jacket built to last 20 years from regen...