Household waste increases about 25% every year between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Packaging materials, decorations, food waste and unwanted ...

With tailored, evidence-based policies, the U.S. can relieve the burden on local and municipal governments, communities, and ...

While fashion is by nature ephemeral, its environmental impact is long-term. Regularly criticized for the waste it generates on a global scale, the fashion industry is also called out for pollution ...

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On a construction site, building materials might arrive from anywhere in the world. “The construction sector is one of the most fragmented ever,” says Catherine De Wolf, SM ’14, PhD ’17, assistant ...

Exclusively sponsored by Honeycomb Strategies. Creating beautiful events requires a lot of materials, but the costs of sourcing and disposing of these can impact both the budget and the environment.

Sarah J. Morath is a member of the Scientists Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty. That effort is well underway. In September 2023, the U.N. Environment Programme released the so-called zero ...

Construction waste is a massive problem; it accounts for up to 30 percent of all waste generated worldwide, and is expected to reach 2.2 billion tons globally by 2025. With as much as 30 percent of ...