Almost immediately upon taking office this year, President Trump launched a giant push to reset the global trade order with far-reaching tariffs and, eventually, trade deals with countries that negotiated successfully. The jury remains out on whether the effort will succeed at achieving its stated goal of bringing manufacturing back to the U.S., but early evidence suggests that Trump’s trade agenda may be having a surprising unintended consequence: helping climate action.

As tariffs raise prices, companies and consumers have embraced waste reduction and reuse, practices known in sustainability circles as “circularity,” to cut costs. Businesses are looking for easy places to swap-in recycled materials, particularly for high-value products like critical minerals. More people, meanwhile, are

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