In the Loop

How much wood would a wood-consuming world waste? Formed in 2018 under the auspices of the USDA Forest Service, the Urban Wood Project began in Baltimore to reclaim wood that would otherwise be burned or landfilled.

It’s time to update how we sort valuable materials (a.k.a. waste).

We cannot expect to transition to a sustainable circular economy by continuing to rely on toxic chemistry.

Plus, some honorable mentions.

An update from WWF's Erin Simon and OPLN's Dave Ford, who attended INC-1 in Uruguay.

This new company wants to prevent the need for extraction and landfilling.

They're almost everywhere — and they come from some surprising sources.

Scaling circularity requires nuanced and complex answers to hard questions.

There’s a reason reduce is the first R in 'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.'

NextCycle's programs centered community voices from the beginning.