Mitch Ratcliffe

Get the inside story about the struggles involved in bringing the first produce packaging using recycled plastic to market.

A traditional sustainability certification can take six to eight weeks and thousands of dollars in consultancy fees, and still leave purchasers wondering whether the claims actually hold up.

Discover how Trex built the a company that has upcycled more than 5.5 billion pounds of waste plastic film into composite decking.

Most school uniforms are retired while they are still perfectly wearable. Children cycle through them on a predictable annual schedule as they

A portable power station is not impact-free, but it can lower your camping impact bby replacing a generator that burns fuel.

In South Africa, informal waste pickers recover between 80% and 90% of all plastic and paper that actually gets recycled.

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.

Can a wood fiber reuse royalty system unlock a circular bioeconomy that can displace plastic packaging without destroying the world's remaining forests?

In 1979, Hazel Johnson went door to door through her Chicago neighborhood with one question: how many people in your household have cancer? Nearly every neighbor had an answer. Johnson’s public housing complex had been built on top of a former industrial waste dump. Moreover, more than 50 landfills, a chemical incinerator, steel mills, and abandoned toxic sites, were located within a few miles.

SPR is a national recycler that partnered with the Solar Energy Industries Association on the first residential panel drop-off program.