To reduce waste, conserve natural resources and address the mounting climate crisis, America needs more recycling and composting.
Ten highlights from 2024, when we remained focused, as always, on our core mission: to tackle problems of abundance. Economic growth, for all its virtues, causes its own set of problems: for our environment, public health, and our sense of connection to each other and to our democracy. Even modest achievements can make a difference in people’s lives and for the natural world.
Most of Amazon’s plastic packaging isn’t being recycled, and some might end up as material for plastic decking instead.
During a contentious election year at the federal level, state and local governments have some of the best opportunities to make progress on issues that affect our environment, our health, and the quality of our lives.
Here are 10 examples of how our advocates won positive results for the public and the planet in 2023.
New statewide policies to reduce wasteful packaging and ramp up recycling could double Colorado's recycling rate.
Newly introduced legislation could reduce the amount of brand-new, non-recycled plastic going into some of the products we use every day.
