As the global community grapples with a plastic waste crisis of unprecedented proportions, the industrial sector is pinning its hopes on a technological bridge: chemical recycling. While mechanical recycling—the process of washing, grinding, and melting plastic—has long been the standard, it is limited by the degradation of polymer chains, which…
For the first time in fifteen years, the ranks of Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs) at publicly listed U.S. companies have contracted. According to the latest data from the Weinreb Group—a preeminent authority on executive sustainability recruitment—the number of CSOs fell by 10 percent, dropping from 216 in 2025 to 193…
The following analysis reflects the perspective of industry experts and does not necessarily represent the official position of Trellis or its editorial staff. From the ubiquitous lipstick tube to the single-use condiment packet handed out at a salad bar, the physical landscape of consumer goods in California is on the…
By Jim Giles Updated July 16, 2026 In the evolving landscape of corporate sustainability, the traditional focus on "net-zero" promises is facing a reckoning. For years, investors and stakeholders have relied on binary metrics—tracking carbon footprints and setting distant, often opaque, emissions targets. However, a new reporting mechanism, the Climate…
For over half a century, the blueprint for economic development was clear: transition labor from subsistence agriculture to manufacturing, harness economies of scale, and climb the global value chain through exports. From the seminal works of W. Arthur Lewis and Raúl Prebisch to the structuralist models of Nicholas Kaldor, the…
The opinions expressed here by Trellis expert contributors are their own, not those of Trellis or its editors. For decades, the carbon credit market has been haunted by a singular, persistent specter: the risk of reversal. The logic of carbon sequestration is deceptively simple—remove CO2 from the atmosphere and lock…
For two decades, the corporate world has operated under a quiet, almost comforting assumption: that the escalating frequency of climate disasters—the scorched earth of wildfires, the devastating surge of floods, and the unrelenting march of extreme weather—would eventually act as a "great awakening." The theory was that once the physical…
