Four Simple Ways to Teach Your Kids to Recycle

If you’ve ever wondered why recycling matters, consider this: Americans generate a lot of trash. More than 200 million tons of garbage every year, to be exact. That’s enough waste to fill a football stadium from top to bottom. Twice a day. The benefits of recycling seem straightforward. The practice reduces waste sent to landfills, […]

What Is Zero Waste?

Different communities vary in how they define zero waste and what achieving that looks like for them. At the heart of zero waste though, a global movement that began in the 21st century, is the shared goal of decreasing the total amount of waste created, whether that waste ends up in landfills, the side of […]

What Can I Recycle? And Other Common Recycling Questions

Before single-stream recycling was developed in the 1990s, recycling was a much more involved task, requiring the separation of recyclables like plastic, glass, and paper. In 2019, most Americans have access to single-stream (or “single-sort”) recycling, yet many still inevitably put recyclable materials in the trash rather than diverting waste. Recent findings show that 91% […]