A swap is easier to keep when you know what it’s for. Here are the four things our reviews are really about — each with the hard number behind it, and the products that help you act on it.
We make more plastic than the planet can ever absorb — and almost none of it gets a second life.
of all the plastic waste the world produces actually gets recycled.
Source: OECD Global Plastics Outlook, 2022Most ocean plastic starts on land: the bottles, bags and synthetic fibers that drain out to sea.
tonnes of plastic flow into the ocean every single year.
Source: UN Environment ProgrammeWhat our everyday things are made of doesn’t stay put — it migrates into our food, water, and us.
of Americans carry BPA — a hormone-disrupting plastic chemical — in their bodies.
Source: U.S. CDC, NHANES biomonitoringFood scraps can’t rot cleanly in a landfill — they release methane, a far stronger greenhouse gas than CO₂.
of the methane escaping U.S. landfills comes from food we threw away.
Source: U.S. EPA, 2023Pick a cause above, or browse every field-tested swap by where it lives in your life.