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.
While recycling remains important, it's not enough. We need to change the way we talk about waste.
Though it’s home to only 4% of the world’s population, America is responsible for 12% of the planet’s trash. But we can turn the tide on trash in our country by enacting policies and programs that create a zero waste future.
